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Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Thursday at 4:15pm, all I could think was: thank god I don't have to write something funny today. No, not really. I was thinking: Hospital. I should go to a hospital and complain of some kind of horrible yet invisible trauma. Saint Vincent's is good, and I bet their backup power systems will keep the city's morphine pumps gushing 'til judgment day.
But no: no relief for the agonized. I just walked downtown with a couple million citizens, all of us cursing into cell phones and indiscriminately spreading rumors about the extent of the blackout. "Detroit... All of New England... I heard China, even... Shut up!... Florida?... Gabble babble babble!" I was left with sore feet and a great honking dearth of Good Blackout Stories. (Unlike, e.g., Robin, who made me smile real big.) That's right, you asshats. NOTHING HAPPENED. Without electricity, nothing can happen. It is a wonder to me that people were ever able to start wars, or invent books, or generally do anything that History teaches us people did before electricity. I stargazed and smoked and soaked my shirt with sweat and tried to soothe the paranoid freaks I met who were convinced that "Mang, as soon as the sun goes down, people gon' go crazy. Gonna be mad looting. I guarantee it," and that "it's totally terrorists. I don't care what they say. Yeah, sure, [air quotes] the 'grid' went down. [close air quotes] What. Evarr. [makes that derisive laughing snort noise intended to imply the stupidity of everyone but the snorter]" Which is pretty much my reaction to everything these days: "What. Evarr." The blackout was impossible to experience the way old blackouts were experienced, as will every future blackout be impossible to experience like this one. Several lessons were learned, most notably: life before electricity, in addition to smelling like shit, was boring as shit. At 3am I was ready to try listening to Abbey Road on the old portable Fisher Price record player, but who's got extra D-cells kicking around in the oh-three? Damn. Shouldn't have sold my Victrola on eBay. Shouldn't have bought all them pork fingers-- but they was on sale, Paw! Shouldn't have burned up all my candles in that Wiccan virginity-restoration ritual that, even if it worked, how would I know? 0 comments |
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