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Flying Monday 9/17/01

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Monday September 17, 2001.

I flew out of Logan Airport on my way to San Jose for a week-long business trip.

It must have been the first full day of "normal" flying out of Logan after September 11th.

It was one of the eeriest things I have ever experienced. Everything was "almost normal" even as it wasn’t the same at all.

The airport was virtually empty. The plane was nowhere near full, which almost never happens on a Monday morning. The few of us that were traveling talked to each other much more than usual, as though sound could dispel the unreality of flying on this day, from this airport.

I was on American Airlines, and you could feel the sadness of the clerks and flight attendants. And at the same time, they did their jobs as they always did, clearly using normalcy and routine as a coping tactic.

As I suppose all of us who were not personally affected by the 9/11 tragedy were doing at the time.

We all know where we were when we heard about the first plane hitting the first tower, just as previous generations remember where they were when Kennedy was shot.

This is my other most clear memory of that time in our collective lives — the departure lounge at Logan Airport on Monday September 17, 2001.

“Whip It”

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There is something really wrong with kids singing the Devo song "Whip It." 

I don’t care if it is Disney and Devo themselves who came up with the idea of Devo 2.0. Every time I hear the commercial, I cringe.

Just my opinion. YMMV. 



The Sci-Fi Fan’s Curse


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I don’t watch much television. For any number of reasons. And those of you that really love the shows you watch should be really really glad. 


Because just about everytime I start watching a long-running show regularly, it gets cancelled.


I started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer regularly at the beginning of Season 7. Bye bye Buffy.


I followed my favorite BtVS character Spike to Angel when he shifted over in Angel Season 5. Hasta la vista, Angel.


Just this year, I started watching Stargate SG-1, mostly because it was on after  Dr. Who on the Sci-Fi channel. I discovered I really liked Ben Browder and Claudia Black. Yup, you guessed it… this season (number 10) will be its last season on Sci-Fi. Announced yesterday. 


I had watched all of these shows from time to time before I started watching them regularly but hadn’t really gotten into them, again for a number of reasons not really relevant to this post. And as soon as I did, the party was over. 


BTW, this does not seem to happen when I watch a show from the beginning, so Bones and Dr. Who, the other two shows I enjoy these days, should be fairly safe since I’ve watched Dr. Who off and on since Dr. Number 3 and Bones since the beginning.


So, if there are shows you really really like, and would prefer I NOT watch, please feel free to let me know in the comments. And if there is a series you’d like to see gone, I’ll see what I can do. Unless it is Stargate Atlantis. Can’t get into that show at all, so you are on your own. Sandy,  I’ll do my best to stay away from Battlestar Galactica.


Anyway, I am now TIVO’ing Farscape repeats and watching my Firefly and Remington Steele DVDs.  I figure that’s safe, since those shows are already cancelled. 🙂


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