Watching the Sandy Relief concert on NBC, and I'm having flashbacks to sitting on my couch in DC watching the 9/11 telethon. My heart is breaking all over again. The devastation is mind-boggling.
Maybe I've always been here.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Maria - Nov 02, 2012 3:14:06 pm PDT #28282 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Dana - Nov 02, 2012 3:15:27 pm PDT #28283 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I can't pay too close attention to the whole thing, because it all feels exactly like Katrina to me. The pictures, the reactions, the interviews, all of it.
Maria - Nov 02, 2012 3:21:16 pm PDT #28284 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
It's a mashup of Katria and 9/11 for me. Combine that with the fragile state I'm in this year--I've had enough fucking loss thank you very much--and I'm tearing up and really feeling Rob's absence.
Trudy Booth - Nov 02, 2012 3:21:57 pm PDT #28285 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I keep tuning in and out myself.
Sometimes I can't stop looking at pictures. Sometimes I need to run out of the room.
Liese S. - Nov 02, 2012 3:23:35 pm PDT #28286 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I bet, MFNlaw. Give yourself some time and space to deal, or not to deal, as you need.
On the flights thing, brenda, so true. I was looking up today a one-way flight from Nashville to Indianapolis and a round trip from Albuquerque to Washington DC. Guess which was cheaper? Go on, guess.
msbelle - Nov 02, 2012 3:26:49 pm PDT #28287 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am not watching the concert, we left the house. Buffalo wild wings with mac.
Maria - Nov 02, 2012 3:27:14 pm PDT #28288 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
My god, what a group on stage right now: Billy Joel, Steven Tyler, Bruce Springsteen, and Jimmy Fallon. Surreal.
edit: And Will Ferrell on triangle. Weird.
Amy - Nov 02, 2012 3:27:45 pm PDT #28289 of 30001
Because books.
Sometimes I can't stop looking at pictures.
I've looked at so many the past two days, I turned on the concert just now and I couldn't do it. It reminds me most of 9/11, but it's all the homes that are gone that's so like Katrina. I never imagined it would hit this hard.
Hil R. - Nov 02, 2012 3:28:35 pm PDT #28290 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Sometimes I can't stop looking at pictures. Sometimes I need to run out of the room.
Yeah. I'm like that, too.
This is the third time that I've watched on TV and called family and friends as someplace I know and love had a disaster. The feeling of "I should be doing something to help my people and my city," while I can't really do much other than send some money to the Red Cross, doesn't get any easier.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 02, 2012 3:38:57 pm PDT #28291 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I just started watching.
My student who was out of touch in Long Beach is OK, and although her family home's first floor is destroyed, they are OK in the second floor. And she is such a sweet girl that she is planning on giving free babysitting to her neighbors and anyone in long beach so that they can work on their houses without worrying about their kids! They are cooking on the grill and she has learned to make oatmeal on it.