• nyc is like a giant tv station broadcasting live 24-7. if something happens to the tv station, we all have to see it on every screen as though it’s a completely unprecedented event that has never happened anywhere else and we must all swear to never forget it.

    • mayoral election day
    • hurricane makes landfall
    • snow storm shuts down streets
    • plane crashes into building
    • convenience store has an egg sandwich

    and then they’ll make 3 TV series and 14 movies where the “event” is the context for a major dramatic arc, so we all have to imagine how the snow storm or whatever affected the three marriages of the owner of Joey Baloney’s Italiano Restorante & Tire Shop.

    if 9-11 would have happened in chicago, there would have been like 6 memes, 2 jokes, and an FX-hulu show that is mostly about alcoholism, then they would have gone on with their lives.