Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • http://dailygrail.com/ Red Pill Junkie

    “There’s a storm coming, Mr. Wayne…”

  • http://twitter.com/shopper61 sdh

    eerily reminiscent of 1977. only no looting. goodness how we have progressed as a city and society.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ender-Wiggin/100000885624281 Ender Wiggin

      progressed hell, i’m betting there were a lot of people kicking themselves for not getting some schwag before the stores flooded.   insurance pays either way.

      • hobomike

        Insurance? What is this…insurance?

  • BarBarSeven

    Wow. I used to think that Snake Plissken driving up Broadway was creepy.

    Where’s Duke? Is he still “A number 1?”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001453923525 Luca Lucakiss Calabrese

    So this is what it takes to appreciate life again.

  • Finnagain

    Do you think they’ll rebuild it?

    • BarBarSeven

      Rebuild what? Electricity. That is all that is out. And without that, everything is broke.

      • Finnagain

         Katrina reference. You may not have heard about it.

  • http://twitter.com/talo0o0o0o0 talbo0o0

    You don’t need to go back to the 1700′s to drink by candlelight-  2003 will do just fine!

  • http://twitter.com/AllisonCMeier Allison C. Meier

    Wow, this is amazing. It’s so strange to look over at the dark tip of Manhattan from Brooklyn and have no idea what’s going on. I like the cameo of Hecho en Dumbo lit by candlelight and bravo for using the 28th St. subway in the pitch dark. 

  • Nicky G

    Sheesh, I caught one of the last Amtraks out of NYC to Baltimore on Sunday. Place in DUMBO my friends got married at on Saturday was under water about 48 hours later I understand. What a mess.

  • Nicky G

    Lower Manhattan and surrounding environs remind me of Old Seoul in Cloud Atlas, or NYC in A.I.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

    Something doable:

    Outfit each lamppost with a solar cell, rechargeable battery, and a LED light. Not so much light the streets, but to outline the roadway and sidewalks.

    • BarBarSeven

      Great idea! But you know there already are solar cells on the streets of NYC? Right on top of the new-fangled parking meters known as Muni-Meters. Lights? They can’t make money off of light.

  • Stephen Anderson

    “And to Think That I Didn’t See It on Mulberry Street”

  • http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

    Definitely has that “apocalypse-is-right-around-the-corner” feel to it. Plus, adding the Requiem to anything automatically adds a haunting element to anything.

  • Kizone Kaprow

    Hurricane? What hurricane? Reason.com’s Mangu-Ward described Sandy as a “rainstorm.” Not that a little flippancy (or is it sarcasm?) is not appropriate when millions are going through hell.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_INJ5VMMYXKA5TMWQ64ERE4LE7Y Jess

    The music was so overdone and cheesy for this (I don’t care if it’s Mozart) that I couldn’t even watch. It made me grimace at the cheese.

  • flickerKuu

    Why is this so amazing?  The power is out. Things are dark. So what? 

    • http://profiles.google.com/joshuabardwell Joshua Bardwell

      Because New Yorkers think that everything that is interesting or novel to them must also be interesting to everyone else. Because they are just that awesome.