The Blackout
Some Blackout pictures via World New York Has commentary and photos as well as Text-America. Nice commentary via / . MeFi joins the commentary with an obligatory newsfilter thread and a link to the blackout history project.
Herself exclaimed last night that she always moves to New York after an emergency. The move is scheduled for Monday, and the last time Herself moved to the City was after September Eleventh. We are glad that she was not in that mess, and we were not also - being that we now have our papers and are cleared to emigrate to the city that now sleeps in darkness. The funny thing was, there were many people calling us to find out what we thought of this - being that we would be living there soon. We thought this was a perplexing question - but we think that the city handled it with grace and understanding.
However, we thought the media was just going bat-shit ove this. Who needs a recall in California, when a blackout in the biggest city in the US can eclipse it? What people forget, is that many journalists just love to talk about New York - when given an excuse to babble about thier city, it is never ending. So, when reporters started bringing up the fact that New Yorkers were being considerate and understanding during the emergency, I had to laugh. People like the rough-on-the-outside-soft-in-the-middle image of NY'ers and really want NY'rs to be nice. All of the stereotypes aside - the brash, fast, and angry view the world has of NY'rs - in the end, they are just people who want to get home.
And that is good enough for us.
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This is the permanent home of The Blackout. I wrote this post at 09:00 on August 15, 2003. This post is part of grubbykid.com, a weblog. If you liked this entry, why don't you read some other posts such as A call to Arms or Bug eyed for Kournikova? Or you could go to the site archives or return home. All are good choices.
