Thanks to Ben's lucid analysis of Osama Bin Laden's supposed infatuation with Whitney Houston, which you can read here, the missing link to a months-old quandary has now been brought to light...
For those uninitiated with traveling back and forth between WFMU Fun HQ in Jersey City, NJ, and New York City proper, the trip involves an underground train known as the PATH, which terminates in the empty pit that used to hold the haunches of the World Trade Center. A few months ago, I arrived at the WTC PATH station to discover the flyer to the left plastered all over ticket machines and structural supports. I snickered, thought about grabbing one, but didn't want to invite any glares from the suits I'd be sharing the train ride to Jersey City with. Thankfully, when I got into work, I was delighted to find that someone else more brave than I had snagged a flyer and posted it outside of WFMU's Studio B, where it has remained ever since.
None of us quite understood what the flyer's author was getting at, which line of logic he or she was following, if any, until today. Thank you, Benjamen Walker, for throwing some light on this issue! Michael Jackson caused the 9/11 disaster, inciting the wrath of Al-Qaeda by way of Whitney Houston.
But this is just one mystery that has been solved from the Kola Boof memoirs. Other points that demand investigation include Osama's love for Van Halen, the B-52s song "Rock Lobster" (real audio), and the TV shows MacGyver and Miami Vice. The only explanation I can come up with is that Osama Bin Laden is actually from New Jersey.
Spelling "disaster" as "distaster" only makes this better.
Posted by: mike lupica | August 24, 2006 at 12:25 PM
Another good spot for this kind of stuff used to be in front of the post office near MSG. I haven't taken a close look lately butt I suspect there are fewer of this variety of flyers since they've scaled back service there.
Posted by: bartelby | August 24, 2006 at 01:38 PM