Confessions of a CNN Zombie

or “How I spent my 9-11-01″

En route to economics, I overheard something about a plane crash in Manhattan, but thought little of it at the time. Some minutes later, my visibly distraught professor silenced our unusually talkative class with a frantic entrance and desperate imperative for us to all go home. He then stormed out of the lecture hall without offering any explanation whatsoever for his erratic behavior. I was left wondering just what the hell was going on.

A small number of my classmates fiddled with the in-class television to no avail. I walked outside and hopped a shuttle-bus, wherein I rode alone and learned from a local radio personality that my poor economic professor’s temple had been defiled. I later learned that a close associate of his had died that awful September morning.

I spent the following weeks affixed to various media spigots, all in a vain attempt of understanding the wherefores and the whys. I honestly felt ashamed at my inability to understand the whys, and rather overcompensated in my subsequent information search. To this very day, I find myself all too prone to hours of red-eyed CNN gluttony.

-mixtape

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Tags: Personal, Opinion, 9/11, CNN, Zombie

~ by mixtape on September 20, 2007.