Haha! Actually, the title of this is an homage to Sasha Baron Cohen’s Golden Globes acceptance speech where he stated having his Borat co-star’s “Golden Globes” [testicles] on his chin. It was freaking hilarious. Hopefully you saw the video on YouTube before it was so rudely taken down by Dick Clark Productions.

Anyhow, that’s not the subject of this blog. I wanted to pay tribute to something that caught me completely off guard. In 2001, there were two skyscrapers known collectively, along with a few other lesser buildings, as the World Trade Center in NYC. They have also been referred to as the “Twin Towers”. On September 11, 2001, Religion destroyed those two towers. A well known fact to New Yorkers, but not to the world abroad, is that there was a doomed piece of artwork planted dead center of the esplanade between the two leviathan buildings; the Sphere (as shown above).

During my recent trip back to New York, I ventured, sadly, for the first time to Battery Park to oggle the hapless tourists in their constant and evol pilgrimage to Ellis/Liberty Island(s). Having never ventured that far Downtown, I was surprised by the twisted, and yet nearly untouched, sculpture that greeted me.

The sphere, having been between the two towers at the time of the “War of Religion against the Rest of the World”, was a saddening and somber reminder of what happened back so long ago. I must have stood there for about 20 minutes staring at this reminder of my own goal of vindication and retribution.

Imagine a world where hatred wasn’t based on fiction; imagine NO religion.

Where was I when the towers were hit? I was in high school, Junior year. I was in the middle of class, Boston, circa 2001, Lincold-Sudbury Regional. Me and my closest friends, John, Brandon, and Chris, watched LIVE as the second tower was persecuted upon. It took a day to drive, but we made the trek to Manhattan to volunteer for anything we could think of. We dared not go further than the East Village, we found a local restaurant that was feeding service people and offered our services. It was a great time of unity that will forever scar my young life.

The memory will live on. New York will always be a sad place to me. I Love New York, for different reasons.

Mizzle