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.

I saw the Audrey Hepburn commercial. The weird part is, it totally celebrates her weird-dance in Funny Face, which is lovely and silly. And, has nothing to do with ACDC.

And, using Audrey Hepburn as your model for skinny pants is not a good idea. For one thing, she was legendarily skinny. If you do not look like Audrey Hepburn (and really, who does?), you will not look like that in skinny pants. It would be like having Barbra Streisand hawking voice lessons. You have to realize that freak-o-nature ingredients, in addition to the liberal application of money, went into that particular success.

Giuliani for President

2008 is going to be Battle of People Who Don't Play Beyond Their Home Neighborhoods, isn't it? Because, Giuliani comes across as an arrogant, pugnacious twerp even in Connecticut (and I say that with love). He kind of missed his chance for riding disaster coattails into office, don't you think? He might have been better off running for Congress in 2004, so at least he'd have some national cred to his name.

I mean, at least Mitt Romney the Smiling Robot has been a governor, you know? Not a good one, and more prone to speaking engagements than to governing, but, he can legitimately say he's had a reason to think beyond city limits.

misusing her elegance like that.

It'd be like watching Tony Bennett being forced into a rap duet with Diddy or something.

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