It's funny (or maybe it's not), but it's "Fleet week" here in NYC (that means that these huge warships and carriers and suchlike are all docked here for a week). And due to this, there's all kinds of a "security" alert. But, they keep flying these fighter planes over manhattan, really low, not for security reasons but to give all the yahoos a thrill. And all day, when they flew over the Flatiron (a very old building) the windows rattled, the floors shook, and people kept freaking out. They fly these little fighters in groups of 3 and 5, and flying as low as they do, they really shake things up.
All really annoying, really. M ---------- >From: ann klefstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Re:Artist/Fluxlist? >Date: Wed, May 22, 2002, 12:23 PM > > > > Sol Nte wrote: > >> >> I know this isn't so art related but as someone living outside the US I'm >> interested.......... >> Do people in the US really believe there is the possibility of nuclear >> attack? I got the impression that the current government paranoia on your >> side of the Atlantic is just media tactics to deflect attention from the >> fact that Bush etc. knew about 9-11 beforehand. >> >> I would have thought that the more serious nuclear worry at the moment was >> the possibility of war between India and Pakistan. >> > > Indeed that is very true. I don't sense that there's great worry about nuclear > attacks here. I wouldn't give it a second thought myself. Whereas yes there's > very real danger in the situation you write of. It may be hard for people not > living here to realize the degree to which the rest of the world is deemed > somehow not quite real here unless it manages to blow something up within the > borders. > > AK >
