Thanks to Jennifer (whose comments are all fixed now, YEAH!!!), I discovered that today is the first of several palindromes to occur this year. The date 10-1-01 reads the same backwards & forwards. There will be another one on 10-2-01, 10-11-01 and 10-22-01, and that’s it until November, 2011! How is that for cool?
We can’t cry hard enough… is a very well done memorial site, “A tribute to the Victims of September 11, 2001”. Jason Powers’ message: “I felt compelled to do something. So, I did what artists do with their emotions and energy: create.”
And to pixelkitty and everyone else out there that can’t understand America’s sudden zealous, “too much” display of patriotism… there you have it in a simple sentence. It is what some of us choose to do with our emotions and energy.
Jason’s work is beautiful. View it, pass it on.
The past 3 weeks (my God, has it been 3 weeks?) have been rough on a lot of people. So many people have chosen to show their patriotism by changing their site design to display the Stars & Stripes in some form or fashion. Heck, I did it myself with one of my skins. Because I felt it was right. Because it was what I needed to do. So it *REALLY* ticked me off to read pixelkitty’s slam comment regarding Catherine’s site. I will spare you the agony of waiting for pixelkitty’s site to load (it takes horribly long and I am on a T1 line right now… plus I hate to drive more traffic her way, but if you have to look, go here.) She only has one line there and it says this: “Some people really need [ help ]. Sure its ok to be patriotic, but this goes way too far. Trust me.” (The word help links to Catherine’s site.) NO. I will NOT trust you. Who the *uck are you to judge what is or is not “too far”? I have been admiring Catherine’s site for a week. I think it is wonderful. It is clean, the DHTML menu and the rest of the content LOADS FAST, it is pleasing to read. Her patriotism gave me a warm feeling. Pixelkitty lives in Australia according to her “contact” page. Maybe she just doesn’t understand how the Americans are feeling right now? Maybe it is just WRONG to attack someone verbally like that after what we have been through this past month? I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me. I know I have already criticized the people who are singing the national anthem at baseball games when they were silent before, or the sudden display of flags everywhere. My point wasn’t that the singing or the flags were wrong… it was that they should have been doing it ALL ALONG.
So, to be honest, pixelkitty can kiss my ass. (There, I said it for you Catherine.) I applaud all of the awesome patriotic sites out there. Thank you for showing your love for our country.
WTF??? How do I post about something one day and get indexed in Google and hits on it the VERY NEXT DAY??? I just don’t get it! But here are my latest amusing searches that have brought people to my site:
30 Sep, Sun, 11:04:33 Google: PICTURE OF FIREFIGHTERS PUTTING FLAG UP AT WTC – I think I wrote about that being a very moving photo, but I didn’t post a copy here. Sorry. It’s out there on all the news sites though
30 Sep, Sun, 11:18:06 Google: “world trade center” pictures near legs – I certainly hope that is meant in the boolean search manner of things, the “near legs” part, but what do legs have to do with the WTC?
30 Sep, Sun, 12:14:36 Google: zoolander twin towers – Yep, I think they should have left them in the movie.
30 Sep, Sun, 12:19:52 Google: blah blah – The requisite “blah” search.
30 Sep, Sun, 12:36:47 Google: zoolander new york skyline picture – Don’t have a copy of that. Sorry.
30 Sep, Sun, 13:22:42 Google: zoolander twin towers – Again?
30 Sep, Sun, 13:28:48 Google: blah – Again.
30 Sep, Sun, 13:34:27 Google: +pin +ribbon + wtc
30 Sep, Sun, 15:36:04 Google: wtc ribbon pin
30 Sep, Sun, 16:58:40 Google: As the soot and dirt and ash rained down, We became one color – I love that poem.
30 Sep, Sun, 17:01:18 Yahoo: jump dead man photo WTC – I think there would be something very wrong if I posted a picture of that here.
30 Sep, Sun, 18:16:10 Google: As the soot and dirt and ash rained down – Does anyone know who wrote that poem? I would like to give them credit.
30 Sep, Sun, 18:21:04 Yahoo: taliban opium colin powell million – Yep, we gave them millions to agree not to grow opium. $43 million. Smart move, huh?
30 Sep, Sun, 20:07:43 Google: greymatter pregnant pictures – I only have one pregnant photo, and trust me, you DO NOT want to see it. Then again, I might have burned it!
30 Sep, Sun, 20:53:05 Yahoo: angel in smoke wtc attack – Is that the drawing that was supposedly done by a student? Hmmm… not sure. Not here though, sorry.
30 Sep, Sun, 21:12:47 Yahoo: reese witherspoon snl – Uhm, HELLO??? Less than 24 hours after I posted about it I was hit by Yahoo on a search for it? That has me STUNNED.
30 Sep, Sun, 21:52:28 Google: “saturday night live” “mayor giuliani” “paul simon” – Wow. Another one!
30 Sep, Sun, 23:32:33 Google: “face in the smoke” WTC photo – Posted a link to it, you can search my archives for it. Not sure which day it was on.
At least there weren’t any toe queries, although there was one for legs. Close, but not the same as the “long toes pictures” searches that I am so used to seeing.
ABC plans “Facts of Life” reunion Whoo hoo! First 90210 is on, and now this!