| Tuesday, September 10, 2002 |
 | Via Prandial, the 9/11 commemoration trade gets a rightly-deserved kicking at the Ground Zero Theme Park. I remember stting in a hotel room in Boston in December of last year, channel-hopping, and coming across an advert for commemorative plates depicting plane impacting on tower, crying fireman, and so on. It just seemed such a very strange way to react to the worst terrorist atrocity to have struck your country ever...rush out the commerorative plate set, with the gold border around the rim. The only thing stranger, in fact, being the market demand that was presumably being addressed.
In the face of this unfamiliar horror a desire for bloody vengeance was, if not necessarily healthy, entirely understandable. A desire for presentation crockery? Not so much.
Today feels strange - as if it's the bow wave of something bad. At 10 to 9, the tube running through the Square Mile had seats to spare. I don't think I've ever seen that before. Personally, I'm hoping for a massive sense of anticlimax as the week progresses.
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