I must preface this post by saying that I did not create anything you see here. If you read my blog with any regularity, you already know I’m not that creative.

No, every file is real, which means I’m only the curator of this exhibit. If you’re offended by anything you see here, or you think it’s too soon, or you knew someone who knew someone who almost died that day, or you have proof that the Jews all got an email warning them to stay home that day, or Building 7 was actually made of sugar, I don’t know what to tell you. Start with the man in the mirror.

Anyway, there is a lot of crap here, so I’ve taken the liberty of grouping this garbage into the following categories:

Let’s roll!™

• gifs

This was probably the most prolific category of Nine-Elevenalia, and I’m not surprised. After all, in this MySpace-age world we live in, everyone needs a sparkly way to say, “Thanks for the add!” or “Sorry your friends died in that building thingy.”

While there are thousands of glittery memorial snowglobes and weeping eagles on the internet, I have contented myself to show you just a handful. Please download them and put them all over your Facebook today, if only to annoy the terrorists in your extended network.

• music

Of all the tragedy came out of 9/11, nothing is sadder than these.

• tattoos

Unless you put it on your back. Then it’s your wife’s problem.

More here

• merchandise

• personal expression

• inadvertantly offensive

You could make the argument that some of these images were designed to provoke an emotional response, but I think they stop short of pure trolling, which is the gold standard. I also think some of this was pure stupidity, which is not the same as being an asshole.

• deliberately offensive

Trying to make a couple of bucks on 9/11 is one thing.

Trying to get some bullshit advertising award by doing unauthorized, unsolicited work for a charity and making them look like ghouls in the process is something else entirely.

This year’s Twin Douchebag Award goes to . . .

DDB ADVERTISING, BRAZIL

For this spectacularly horrific and ultimately meaningless bit of batshittery.

UPDATE: the lyrics have been found

Day after day my hearts beat with joy
As I jump over rainbow
Hiding in my trunk is the melody that
Binds together our encounter and separation

The memories that I can’t put away are forcing
Their way out, and it hurts my heart just a little
Because I finally understand love, it
Puts a weight upon my shoulders

Your voice, everything about you, I hold it close
While walking my uncharted road
Embracing the miracle called “you”
And yet because my heart wants to tell you that
“I love you”, I begin a brand new journey

If in the future I forget your priceless smile
No matter what kind of things
Will need my attention
It will be a future I don’t need

I’ve gotten used to be silent and not crying,
And perhaps I’ve become too much of an adult
And yet when you said “Those are the things I like”
I cried. I will never forget you for that

Your dream, everything about you, I hold it close
While continuing my journey
Embracing the miracle called “you”
Even now because your words of a “Love so true”
Are stuck to my heart
I begin a brand new journey

You held my hand up until the final moment
When you faded, blurred, and then vanished

I embrace the warmness
Of the kiss you gave me on that day
I can live to be myself, because I
Embrace the miracle called “you”
So when I look up I can finally say
“Bye my love”

I’ll begin a brand new journey

I still don’t know what the fuck is going on.

I don’t know what’s funnier about this; the sound the turtle is making, or the fact that YouTube thinks is this “Adult content”.