11/04/05: Four years and counting...
I was just browsing Salon.com and came across this flashback to 9/11. By the time I got to the end, I was feeling pretty emotional, even after all this time. There's something about being caught in the narrative that brings it all back.
Afterward, I decided to look up my old AOL Instant Messenger chats from the same time period. (2001 was my most intense stretch of internet chatting. My obsessively accumulated archive contains over 350 individual chat logs from that year, most of them between me and Orson.) When I pulled up the chats from 9/11 and subsequent days, I was struck by how many of the ideas and suspicions Orson and I exchanged matched what the Salon.com posters were saying. Glaring in their absence were any mentions of Iraq or Saddam Hussein. Hm!
For history's sake -- and with Orson's permission -- I've uploaded an edited log. Click "Read More" to see the full, VERY long post.
Afterward, I decided to look up my old AOL Instant Messenger chats from the same time period. (2001 was my most intense stretch of internet chatting. My obsessively accumulated archive contains over 350 individual chat logs from that year, most of them between me and Orson.) When I pulled up the chats from 9/11 and subsequent days, I was struck by how many of the ideas and suspicions Orson and I exchanged matched what the Salon.com posters were saying. Glaring in their absence were any mentions of Iraq or Saddam Hussein. Hm!
For history's sake -- and with Orson's permission -- I've uploaded an edited log. Click "Read More" to see the full, VERY long post.
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