Babbling Point

HEROES It's 6:14pm. I'm in the office. I just clicked on Gerry's blog and found myself staring at this illustration posted. On the CD player, Aimee Mann is singing, "It's not going to stop, til you wise up." And just kept staring til the song came to an end. "I saw more than the usual number of people inside one of the largest comic book stores in the city- people were looking to get away from the tv and read about superheroes. Lastly, I saw a worker coming back from the tragic site - he was dusty and looked very tired- he was wearing a superman shirt. How appropriate." --Rafeal Kayanan New York, 13 September 2001 PRAYERS Before coming to the office, I was once again glued in front of the TV set. At the end of one CNN report, they started to show images from all over America, of the services held for those who died, and of the clean-up and rescue operations being conducted in WTC. And while the images were being show

txt msgs frm new yrk Quark's in New York. I texted him on his Globe. There was no reponse from him til the next day. Sender: QUARK Sent: 12-Sept-2001 03:59:57 hell budj! its hell here, people are cussing, screaming, crying but im ok. get yr messages late tho. fuckn globe :) Sender: QUARK Sent: 12-Sept-2001 08:09:33 no naman, but i think two more buildings have collapse. whole fucking lower manhattans being evacd. still in my apt, hope things dont get too bad.

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow When I was a still in grade school, I watched on Betamax the documentary “ The Man Who Saw Tomorrow ”, which made me so afraid of the predicted events.It was narrated by Orson Wells which made it even more scary. They made it sound like it was really going to happen. And since I had an uncle who was into jetfighters and military technology, I was very much aware of the threat of ICBM’s and nuclear winter. It’s funny how every time some mad leader from the Middle East says something against the West and then actually does something about it, I’d think that “He must be the Anti-Christ!” And I’d check if he’d be seen wearing a blue turban, or blue cap, or blue beret, or a blue hat. Quaddafi, Saddam, and now Bin Laden. Will the real Anti-Christ please stand up. They are the modern day Boogey Men who hide bombs in our closets. It’s funny how people scramble to decipher the enigmatic writings of a Frenchman who supposedly predicted his own death,

AMERICA'S DARKEST DAY Yvette was the first one to text me that a plane crashed in to the World Trade Center. I shurgged it off. Through it was a some small prop plane that made the wrong turn. The texts came in that a second plane crash and that another one crash into the Pentagon. The whole team scrambled out of the office to go to the nearest place with CNN. We couldn't log-on to the web site. We still can't log-on to CNN.com. We ended up in McCann where the rest of the creatives who were doing O.T. were gathered around the TV set. We watched in awe and disbelief as the second tower of the World Trade Center collapsed into itself. After watch for a couple of more minutes, hunger set in, we hadn't had dinner, so we went to Chili's and got the table with the best view of the TV sets. Been trying to text/call Quark. No word. I just emailed my relatives/classmates in the States, just to check if they're ok. Roach's sister is okay. S