it’s just so odd. there’s this weird boundary at bleeker street. if you go north of bleeker street the air is clean and fresh, and if you go south of bleeker street the air smells like the smoke and smoldering from the former world trade center. any meteorologists care to offer any insights into why this might be?
so one month after the attack and i’m shutting all of my windows cos the air is so foul. and the last few days had been so perfect, with nary a stinky air molecule in sight. or smell.
and now the air is heavy with stink. i think that sometimes they wait to do the stinky stuff at night so as not to offend the businessfolk on wall street. ah well, it’s an obnoxious smell but i’m getting kind of used to it. and it’s the weirdest smell.
anyone who lives in lower manhattan knows of what i speak. i had never smelled anything like it before 4 weeks ago. now i’ll never forget it.
completely seperate to the continuing fires and smoldering…my friend damian has this idea that he calls the ‘wet firecracker theory’. basically it’s a theory that we’re all waiting for some big cataclysm, but what if it doesn’t happen? i remember at the beginning of desert storm saddam hussein said that it was going to be the ‘mother of all battles’ and that the desert would be ‘drenched with american blood.’ and, thankfully, neither of those things ended up being true. so hopefully all of the al qaeda ‘jihad’ talk will just end up coming to nought. now i have to go and put duct tape over my doors to keep the smoke and stink out of my house.
goodnight,
moby