"Swell Hat!"

"Less fucked that I thought"

Sure the economy, and everything connected to it is circling the drain. Still that's no reason to get upset. Some comrads, and I are making plans to go to D.C. for Obama's swearing in.

Nothing like a big party to jump start a country. Wow it's gonna be great. It'll be like FDR, JFK, and Mr. Spock taking office to save our collective butts.

Gee Michelle Obama even looks like a black Jackie "O". She even has them damned pearls.

Okay this is a fantasy, but I like it.

However by what I'm seeing, and if they don't shoot him. Looks like Obama 'might' make it. Yeah I know this guy ain't 'Batman',..eh far as we know anyway. So shit probably won't change all that much, but it 'will' change a bit.

That's at least a good start.

Anyway like I sez some of us is going down for the party,..I'll take snaps, and post them here. I'll be the guy in the party hat pissing on the FBI building.

Stay Tuned.

"We're Fucked"

I don't have to tell you anything. You know what's going on. ...good luck.

"Chirp..."

(The sound of the Vast! Sydneyland audience.)

"WTC Memorial Lights"

I was out tonight walking around town. Many visitors were either going to or coming from the various memorial services. There was sort of a strange hush over the city.

Like when it snows, and street noises are muffled. People spoke to each other as well. Especially locals that were here on the Day.

Conversations about where they were, what they felt now, or if they'd lost anyone.

Me, on the 'Day'. I was stuck on the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan Bridge. Soldiers had closed it for fear that the city's spans were next.

I didn't get into downtown till the next day. My radio station where I was Operations Director at the time is only four blocks from Ground Zero.

Other than some damaged windows, and smoke we got off okay,..at least then. Now many that were on duty for the emergency are getting sick.

Some have breathing problems, some other symptoms. I ended up with killer headaches for a time. We 'all' have the dreams. Even now they still come.

...but we're still here making trouble so fuck'em.

As I've said there's no rebuilding going on. It's all mired in the traditional New York corruption, and greed.

Maybe nothing will go up for years more. That's okay. I think they should just leave it all alone, and let nature reclaim it.

I don't mean a park. I mean wild nature growing over the wreckage.

Trees, grass, and vines engulfing the abandoned trucks, and rusting pipes from the long stalled re-construction.

A perfect NYC memorial to the Attack.

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"HOPE"

Oh how well I remember all this. Robert Kennedy's funeral train to Washington. So like Roosevelt's train as my parents told me. Perhaps not unlike Lincoln's in emotional weight.

So many hopes rode with him to his grave. Hope not reignited till 40 years later with the Obama bid for the highest office. Even the Kennedy family have said this. When I found this footage of the funeral train which I haven't seen in four decades it all came back. As if it were only days ago.

Never mind my nasty, deranged,cynical rants below. All that was just the edgy symptoms of worry, and sleep deprivation.

I still hope. I still dream.

All of us that were there. All of us that worked so hard for change. We 'still' have hope that this country can be what it says it is. Free. A Free Nation for All.

"9/11"

What can one say. Billions of words said or written, and still no conclusion. The attack site is 'still' a hole in the ground as the greedy, and powerful fight for their percentages. Two wars rage, and assorted political whores make their careers on this.

As for us. Well we just live our lives. That's all.

..caution, 'Extremely Graphic' Material.

(The last phone call from the 105th floor.)


(Second plane strikes.)

"Coney Island Bits da Dust"

Coney Island was featured in "Beast from 20,000 Fathoms". ...here's everyones favorite scenes! ..yep the Cyclone, and the cop.