Mardi Gras Video Is on the Way
Yes, there will be a Mardi Gras Video.
Living here now is anything but normal. For most people mundane daily chores can easily take all day and then there are days like today when I expected to be online all day and wound up breathing the lower 9th all day because they started putting up electric poles. (It's a huge deal.) We joked that they probably were only putting them up for show because a gaggle of congress people had scheduled a drive by photo-op by the levee that "failed" and that they would probably take them down the next day.
We had first heard that the public servants would get a debriefing from the Army Corp of Engineers reguarding the new levee being built.. at noon ... then 3 but if you leave the area you won't be allowed back in .. then 4, I think it was after 4 when they rolled up and were mobbed by several pushy, arogent, loudmouthed corporate news fucks.
While the politicians blathered on; 20 some former (and current) residents of the lower 9th were kept at bay a block away by ARMY Grunts and Police labled ICE. Eventually a solitary congressmen was sacrificed to the residents and he made many promises. Afterward a few more of the congress people walked out to great their subjects. Smiles, handshakes and ... empty promises did seem to apease the residents. I thought I was going to puke.
A full afternoon in the lower 9th, in the sun, has taken a toll and I've got that familiar full body lethergy and throat soreness that crops up sometimes when I've spent a lot time in a heavy destruction zone.
But back to the point. Yes, There will be a Mardi Gras video... maybe 2. Honestly, I wasn't going to do one but I got's somethin' special for ya. ... maybe by mid week.
Living here now is anything but normal. For most people mundane daily chores can easily take all day and then there are days like today when I expected to be online all day and wound up breathing the lower 9th all day because they started putting up electric poles. (It's a huge deal.) We joked that they probably were only putting them up for show because a gaggle of congress people had scheduled a drive by photo-op by the levee that "failed" and that they would probably take them down the next day.
We had first heard that the public servants would get a debriefing from the Army Corp of Engineers reguarding the new levee being built.. at noon ... then 3 but if you leave the area you won't be allowed back in .. then 4, I think it was after 4 when they rolled up and were mobbed by several pushy, arogent, loudmouthed corporate news fucks.
While the politicians blathered on; 20 some former (and current) residents of the lower 9th were kept at bay a block away by ARMY Grunts and Police labled ICE. Eventually a solitary congressmen was sacrificed to the residents and he made many promises. Afterward a few more of the congress people walked out to great their subjects. Smiles, handshakes and ... empty promises did seem to apease the residents. I thought I was going to puke.
A full afternoon in the lower 9th, in the sun, has taken a toll and I've got that familiar full body lethergy and throat soreness that crops up sometimes when I've spent a lot time in a heavy destruction zone.
But back to the point. Yes, There will be a Mardi Gras video... maybe 2. Honestly, I wasn't going to do one but I got's somethin' special for ya. ... maybe by mid week.
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