Something I drew, something I knew. (Images by Matthew Rettenmund)

As I posted on social media, I'm at a loss for words about 9/11. I was close enough to experience it from far too close-up — yet far enough away that I was spared the kind of visceral memories others have. Still, I had sense of creeping doom reading the inevitable remembrances on Twitter this morning.

Click here to check out my full take on what happened that day. I wrote it 15 years ago. It feels more embittered than I feel now, but it does have all the details I can remember.

I think it is terrifying how in 2001, everyone banded together — and it led us into a pointless 2o-year war and on a path of even greater polarization. And yet today, if a massive terror attack occurred, I have no doubt the right would use it to try to mount insurrection; there would be no banding together bullcrap.

Tell me I'm wrong.

Aw, shucks! (GIF via GIPHY)

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(Images by Gastohn Barrios for Modus Vivendi)

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“Lunch hour was typically out of control ...” (Images via Trade Center)

Adam Baran's Trade Center is a new short about what a bustling tearoom practically all of the World Trade Center was right up until the towers ceased to exist.

The film is an intensely stylish eight-plus (nice size!) minutes, consisting of audio recordings of men recalling the wild, gay goings-on at the Trade Center. Some of the participants sound amazed to this day by how much of a free-for-all the Center was — the largest men's room, stairwells, hidden nooks and crannies.

One interviewee asserts he's even spoken to a guy who was in one of the tea rooms when the planes hit, and wonders about how possible it is that every man in there made it out alive.

Trade Center lives up to the cleverness of its title — it's a great oral history of our oral and anal history, and while there are more serious aspects of the history of 9/11, the sexual past of the iconic buildings is vital, too. Just great.

From the film — a security camera that looks, to me, more like a urinal cake spying on a fuck fest.

Keep reading to watch — you should have no trouble taking in the whole thing in one try:

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I always preferred Luke to Bo ... (GIF via GIPHY)

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