Not Your Sweetie

More blackout stuff:

t was easier for us who were home at the time. I heard of very wild parties going on in Tompkins Square - a bonfire and music mostly - but younger style than in our garden - with my guy and 2 others with guitars and one with bagpipe were playing their own songs and an international repertory (I even found myself singing "Internationala" in Romanian. On the roof, a neighbor was telling the story of a paparazzi event with Tracy Lords.
It was ugly to see the peddling of flimsy flashlights for $10 or water for $ 5 but on my street we had plenty of stores selling candles and water in their doors at regular prices and giving free matches.
Heroes: WNYC for their 24h transmission via telephone by flashlights (they usually have 5-6 h a day)
Rep Marty Markovitz of Brooklyn who stood on a soapbox with a loudspeaker at their end of the Brooklyn Bridge greeting people coming home: "You've made it! You are in Brooklyn- the capital of USA! You are safe now! Everything will be allright. The next day he told people to throw the largest block party with the contents of their freezers.
New Yorkers who self-appointed themselves traffic agents (traffic lights were dead too)
The guy who bought the last ice cream but gave it to my little girl refusing the money (and the guy who left the line saying: "I can't take it from the pretty girl with the nice eyes - )
jeers: Bloomberg who tried hard to pull a "Giuliani" but spouted one inane statement after another "Go home, open your windows - it's hot" and, when proven wrong about power coming back on the 14: "well, Con Ed told me that, because nothing is broken. If it were, this could have taken months to fix. As it is, who cares? A few hours, a few days - no big deal!"
He also did nothing for people at higher levels who lacked water .
Pataki - for blaming Canada as South Park recommended and being his usual removed and ineffective, the same day he pledged NY's support to Arnuld Scwatzennegger..
bush - for not bothering to intrerrupt his vacation for this and extremely vague, delayed statements. WNYC said: "he said people must be taken care of - so Bloomberg dispatched thousands of policemen" (bushco understanding of being taken care of)
My super for turning off the emergency lights on the corridors (they are for emergency)