Oh my god.

I wake up and the sky is falling, literally. Though fortunately not in my backyard. How surreal - the WTC is no more. Surreal is the word I commonly find in everyone's observations, but it's the best one that describes the unreality, unbelieveablity (if that's a word) of this matter. Smoke covers all of Manhattan like fog in San Francisco. I wake up to have horror and hatred reaffirmed. I just watched "American Beauty" last night, and as always, was touched by how eloquently Sam Mendes and Alan Ball express/convey the true spirit and nature of life. And I wake to this. The jet that crashed in Philidelphia - there is some speculation that it was heading for Camp David. My guess is that the pilot had an opportunity to crash the airplane without causing any further damage that was intended by the hijackers.

I'm listening to BBC news for a world perspecitve on the events. I'm browsing other blogs, namely those from NYC'ers, all of who seem to be okay so far. Tony Blair says that this that terrorism is the new evil. Hello?!! Terrorism had its genesis during biblical times, and has been a habitual problem for the last 30 years. Blair did say though that this is not an American problem battling terrorism; it is the problem of any democracy to deal with terrorism.

People are saying this is the 2nd Pearl Harbor. There is all ready a call to arms while silent amazement, horror, shock, denial and anger run their seemingly endless, solemn course. Choire says this is counterproductive, and he is right. Everyone is also asking about donating blood, and if the Red Cross will accept homo blood. If they say no, maybe they haven't learned anything from today's tragic events.

I went to CNN online to read a chronology of events to calculate how much time people had to get out of each tower. Each building had a little more than an hour...My god.