Here is lower Broadway at Liberty Street from my 28th story window as Eli Manning drove by with the trophy:
My favorite part is the massive amounts of paper, real 8.5" x11" office paper that folks threw from their windows. That white stuff on the sills ain't snow--could be cocaine, this is Wall Street, afterall, but it's most likely confetti. Awesome crowd. Electrifying even if they're aren't your team. Damn, I wish I worked in a building with real windows that open! People even threw shit out windows on Church Street where the parade isn't happening:
Say what you wish, Giants fan or not, you gotta love New York.
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I have to disagree, anne - this is the likely scene in any city post a superbowl win. come now, we don't want people to waste plastic bags - why should we support waste paper? with the seriousness of our planet's health aside, i did get a kick out of full sheets of paper being thrown. who has time to tear up paper? certainly not wall streeters!
good points, liz. though i try and make sure my personal thermal imprint is small (no car, turning off lights left and right, recycling my ass off) i'm throughly convinced it's too late to save the earth. i guess i figure some superbowl joviality is in order considering end of the world is any day now, so let's party until we drown in the polar ice caps, shall we? t'was a good run, Earth.
i would say that it is not the end of the earth, but the end of humans. we will destory ourselves before we destory the earth and the earth will take over. i've been watching this great show about how long it will take the earth to replenish post humans. it's great. it does a great job of showing NYC post humans. there are vines growing over all the buildings and the rat poulation decreases because they live off our trash! water paths will take over the city and pretty soon, no one would ever know a human existed. i think that, alone, is why people who believe in god are crazy. we are so insignificant. after humans are gone there will still be life...just not human form!
It's my understanding that the majority of the paper is picked up by the sanitation department and recycled but I can't guarantee that. The parade should have been in Newark, anyway.
i am not sure i get the tie into god there, whip, but sure, the earth will be here without us. and yeah, people who believe in god shouldn't eat animals. haha, why not keep add another odd tangent to a jovial post?
people who eat animals should eat humans too.
Yeah I see ELi, Anne! I really can see him! At least I think I can see him!
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