It's weird to read these emails and think back on a time when I could innocently make a joke about how being considered an American was worse than being considered an idiot. In a few hours, that kind of talk would become unpatriotic and borderline-treasonous.
I had to leave London a few months after 9/11 because they cracked down a lot harder on visas, and people like me, who were on questionable student visas, suddenly found ourselves a bit stuck. But that's a small price to pay. London isn't going anywhere.
It's odd for me to look back on this email thread and see the end of an era in real time. It's a poor remembrance, but it's a remembrance nonetheless.
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Subject: send me names
please.
thank you.
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on 11/9/01, Nick Bland wrote:
will do - let me get a report out and over they'll come . . . . .
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From: Heather Anne Buettner
on 11/09/2001 09:57 ZE8
To: Nick Bland/DMGCON/DMG UK/DeuBa@DMG
UK
you rocketh most mightily.
i know . . .Paul & I want champers on the flight over with lunch! Mwa!
Nick Bland
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From: Heather Anne Buettner
on 11/09/2001 10:10
ZE8
To: Nick Bland/DMGCON/DMG UK/DeuBa@DMG
UK
Talk English for goodness sake.
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on 11/9/01, Nick Bland wrote:
champers = champagne
dur you're soo stoopid!
Nick Bland
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From: Nick Bland [mailto:]
mmmm nice
Nick Bland
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on 11/9/01 6:13 pm, Paul Bland wrote:
Mmm heather drool - nice !!!! C'mon Heather you work with Lynn Franks
!!!
Champers is an Ab fab-ism - which planet have you been living on ??
From: Heather Anne Buettner [mailto:heather@seedfusion.com]
Sent: 11 September 2001
no,
that's shish. Sheesh is a noise you make
when you're exasperated by nitpicky boys.
what
are you both doing on saturday night?
Proms in the park. Let's go!
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on 11/9/01 1:44 pm, Paul Bland wrote:
Heather - you're not an idiot, you're American and you should be proud !!
Anyway, both you must sort out your e-mail disclamers/siggys - they make the message
From: Heather Anne Buettner [mailto:heather@seedfusion.com]
Sent: 11 September 2001
Nick -
see what I mean... he thinks I'm American.
American. Which is worse than being
an idiot, don't you think? You really
know how to charm a girl, Paul.
And I
don't put my siggy on, or disclaimers.
It's Nick.
So
what are you both doing for lunch?
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on 11/9/01, Nick Bland wrote:
Paul - I think you mean protracted, truncated is the opposite
Heather - nothing much wrong with your heritage, you should be proud of your
history, all c.100 years of it.
look no siggy!
Ps no can do proms in tha park. . . doing a concert in Kent
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on 11/9/01, Paul Bland at wrote:
Fuck off Nick !
Heather would you like to send a profanity to my bastard brother ?
From: Heather Anne Buettner [mailto:heather@seedfusion.com]
Sent: 11 September 2001
still,
ok. fuck off nick.
and by the way, I'm not so sure the Indians (excuse me, Native Americans) would be happy with you neglecting them from our heritage!
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on 11/9/01, Nick Bland wrote:
Go to www.cnn.com
there's a picture of what has been reported as a plane crashing into the world
trade centre in New York.
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they've evacuated canary wharf given what has happened. . . .
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From: Heather Anne Buettner [mailto:heather@seedfusion.com]
Sent: 11 September 2001
are you going?
ps this is making me feel really sick. . .
hope you're okay. . . .
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From: Heather Anne Buettner [mailto:heather@seedfusion.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:51 AM
hope you're feeling better today.
xxh
Nick Bland
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on 11/9/01 5:59 pm, Nick Bland wrote:
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what's a champer? Am I meant to
understand what that means?
Mwa
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From: Heather Anne Buettner on
11/09/2001 10:29
ZE8
To: Nick Bland/DMGCON/DMG
UK/DeuBa@DMG UK
cc:
Subject: Re: send me names
Dur, like how the hell am I supposed to understand your secret
language?
Geez.
I'm not going to let you have champers. You'll be all tipsy before we
even land. No wait, that's
me.
I'm going to sit in the middle and take turns sleeping on each of
you so
you
each get equal amounts of Heather Drool on your shirts. I bet you can't
wait!
From: Nick Bland [mailto:]
mmmm nice
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Champers is an Ab fab-ism - which planet have you been living on ??
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Sent: 11 September 2001
God, the two of you...sheesh.
If you would stop forwarding on my emails to third parties (even if he IS
your brother) and send me the email list, I would be most appreciative, Nick!
I
don't WATCH Ab-Fab, Paul - I WORK with her, I don't NEED to watch it.
It's my LIFE, 'kay?
I'm in a foul mood because I forget how to get to the place where I'm meant
to be singing tonight and the lady isn't answering my email. I thought I
Now get back to work, the two of you... xxxxxxxxxxxxxh
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on 11/9/01, Paul Bland wrote:
Isn't 'sheesh' a type of kebab ?????
your brother) and send me the email list, I would be most appreciative, Nick!
It's my LIFE, 'kay?
Isn't 'sheesh' a type of kebab ?????
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sooo truncated !!!
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To: Paul Bland; 'Nick Bland'
Subject: Re: Gucci, Armani, La Croix, Names Names Names !!!!
on 11/9/01, Nick Bland wrote:
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To: Paul Bland; 'Nick Bland'
Subject: Re: Gucci, Armani, La Croix, Names Names Names !!!!
hey - language children...
From: Heather Anne Buettner [mailto:heather@seedfusion.com]
on 11/9/01, Nick Bland wrote:
Sent: 11 September 2001
To: Paul Bland; 'Nick Bland'
Subject: Re: Gucci, Armani, La Croix, Names Names Names !!!!
I can't see it.
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ohh you 2 are soo predictable . . .did you get my last mail re plane crashes
in the World trade Centre. . . .apparently there is more than one . . . sounds like a suicide mission to me. . . .
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From: Heather Anne Buettner [mailto:heather@seedfusion.com]
Sent: 11 September 2001
And there was also just a bomb in the Pentagon in Washington
weird
shit going on in New York.
NICK
are you EVER going to send me those names????
in the World trade Centre. . . .apparently there is more than one . . . sounds like a suicide mission to me. . . .
To: Paul Bland; 'Nick Bland'
Subject: Re: Gucci, Armani, La Croix, Names Names Names !!!!
And there was also just a bomb in the Pentagon in Washington
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on 11/9/01, Nick Bland wrote:
To: Paul Bland; 'Nick Bland'
Subject: Re: Gucci, Armani, La Croix, Names Names Names !!!!
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on 11/9/01 , Nick Bland wrote:
No, they won't evacuate central London.
ps this is making me feel really sick. . .
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:51 AM
To: paul bland
Subject: good grief
why are people so awful?
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on 11/9/01, Paul Bland wrote:
I
know ! Lloyd's and around there has been evacuated ! I'm trying to call
you - are you OK ?
From: Heather Anne Buettner [mailto:heather@seedfusion.com]
Sent: 11 September 2001
you - are you OK ?
To: Paul Bland; 'Nick Bland'
Subject: Re: Gucci, Armani, La Croix, Names Names Names !!!!
on the phone to parents - call 020 7287 6519 -
that's lily's line 
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