so he wasn't able to turn any of the GOP levers. Oops!

If only this would happen in November. We have stupid electronic machines as the big expensive fix to the punchcard tragedy. Why we didn't go to a sane method like optical scanning is beyond me. Yeah, I know, more money in various pockets.

I saw a little while ago that Giuliani was way up on the potential candidate poll. Good grief. The run up to the next presidential election is going to be a brutal experience. I'm going to have to invest in hundreds of DVDs to make it.

I couldn't find this yesterday...

...a picture of Kirk and Spock mourning at ground zero

It's, um.... well, you gotta see it. Or maybe you don't.

Also-- why is Audrey Hepburn dancing to "Back in Black" on my teevee. If I didn't know better, I would think that they had filmed her ROLLING OVER IN HER GRAVE...

see, this is why I start watching everything 15 minutes after it starts. I dont' have to watch the commercials.

He told me not to worry, because it was only on TV, and so therefore, it wasn't real. I think that broke my heart, more than anything.

That's one of the hardest things about being a parent, I think. Seeing the world through their eyes, yet knowing one day they're going to see it through the eyes of an adult.

My Ben was four at the time. I had the TV on in the bedroom (and Nickelodeon on in the living room for him) and he kept coming in and asking why I was watching the show "where everything was on fire." Broke my heart.

I couldn't find this yesterday...

...a picture of Kirk and Spock mourning at ground zero

That's not the way out...

see, this is why I start watching everything 15 minutes after it starts. I dont' have to watch the commercials.

What commercial is this?

The Gap. It's to introduce (reintroduce?) the SKinny Black Pant, which is what she's wearing.

It's an absolute trainwreck. I can't even look away, it's so awful.

My Ben was four at the time. I had the TV on in the bedroom (and Nickelodeon on in the living room for him) and he kept coming in and asking why I was watching the show "where everything was on fire." Broke my heart.

I remember not wanting them to know, but knowing they (at least Ben) had to know, because they/he were going to hear about it, and trying to explain what I didn't understand.

I have managed to miss this commercial.

Poor Audrey. I hope the money for the use of her image is going to UNICEF, the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, or another cause dear to her, because that's all shades of wrong, misusing her elegance like that.

I remember not wanting them to know, but knowing they (at least Ben) had to know, because they/he were going to hear about it, and trying to explain what I didn't understand.

I knew Ben shouldn't watch it, and shouldn't see me freaking out ... but I was also too horrified and upset to really do much about it. He doesn't remember much of that day now.

Jake was at school, and nine, so I knew he would have some sense of what was going on, and we'd need to discuss it. He'd met our friend Jim, who died in the Tower, for one thing, and knew Jim's sister Carol (one of my best friends) very well. And then it turned out the pilot of the first plane to crash into the Towers was the father of two little girls at his school.