Blue World Order

Tomorrow, the September 11th terrorist attacks turn eighteen. Kids born the day the towers fell will be old enough to vote, old enough to serve in an amorphous war raged for their entire lives, and old enough to buy porno. But that’s tomorrow. Eighteen years ago today, <a href="http://rendering.911memorial.org/artists/blue-man-group/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">“one of the 9/11 terrorist hijackers might have attended a Blue Man Group performance.”</a> According to the 9/11 memorial website linked above, the FBI suspected that a jihadi may have sat through <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUV78Iz6no" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Drumbone</a> mere hours before participating in the deadliest act of terrorism in modern history. Whoa! Before diving into the cloudy connection between the hijackers and the Blue Men, every 9/11 retrospective must include the obligatory, where-were-you? personal anecdote, right? Let’s get that out of the way. I was eleven, waiting for the bus to sixth grade, eating a Wild! Berry Pop-Tart with the news playing on our tiny kitchen TV. I don’t think I knew who the wacky blue bald boys in the Intel commercials were yet. I definitely didn’t know al-Qaeda from Al Roker. In the years that followed, both groups continued to creep around America’s collective consciousness, albeit from from disparate positions. Savage cruelty and musical theater remain American cultural touchstones. <a href="https://medium.com/@r.v.henke/blue-world-order-1d05a104cbe3">Read More</a>