Writer's Block: Last Call

[rm]

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What if games with horrific scenarios are admittedly popular (lord knows, I'm in fandom, which is just filled with emotional wankery over unsolvable problems of loss and despair and I often love it), but wow LJ, not necessary. Because my city is still fucked up emotionally, physically and fiscally from 9/11/2001 and I'd like it to be over now.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, people try to use it like the new weather, and you can't do it in general environments. New Yorkers can do it to each other in certain contexts, even with strangers, but seriously, isn't not an idle question.

[maryling.livejournal.com]

I went to a large family gathering in summer '02 in Arizona, and everyone knew I'd been at school, at NYU, on 9/11. Made for fun party conversation, I'll tell you. "So, what was it like in the city that day?" "Oh, terrifying, thanks for asking. Pass the chips?" It was family, so I didn't feel I could just say "I'd rather not talk about it" though I know that was the vibe I gave off.

Then there was the day that my psychotic grandmother (who lived on Long Island with us) said something along the lines of "Rebuild the towers even higher - then let them come attack them again." I got up from the dinner table and walked out.