Aug. 31st, 2005

From an interview in the current issue of BlackBook, after being asked how her self-image changed when she became a mother:


TS: .... It also made me feel more like a woman than I ever thought I would, since I was a boy, really, for most of my life.

How were you a boy? What do you mean by that?

TS: Well, I was. I never was a girl, to be honest. I was a boy when I was growing up and I was sort of waiting to become a woman.

Can you go back, once you've become a woman, to being a boy?

TS: Oh. yes, because the wonderful thing is that you can be everything once you're a woman. Once you're a woman, you've got a free pass.


It is the cadence of her answers I like as much as anything.

Katrina

Aug. 31st, 2005 08:08 am
I haven't really been writing about New Orleans because I haven't known what to say, which is either a lame reason or one that makes perfect sense depending on your assessment of this medium.

New Orleans was the first place I ever went to by myself -- for business -- when I was about 22. I have some really awesome travel journal stuff from that trip, which I should find and post.

I keep thinking about the new Steve Erickson book, the one tht's been displeasing me because it seems like a weak immitation of what he does best and not a tight little knot of circular dismay. In it, a lake mysteriously appears in the middle of L.A. and grows bigger and bigger. Everyone takes to wearing blue out of respect, and people in in the tops of old hotels where the power flickers on and off and take gondolas out from their windows, down across the water to the land to get their groceries. In the book it's not really an image filled with menace at first reading, but things change. It seems the '00s are the Disaster Movies are Different decade. I mean really.

If you're looking for news there is the Times-Picayune newsblog. They've evacuated out of New Orleans, but are doing what they can to keep the news coming: http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/

WWL-TV probably is one of the most useful sites if you're trying to figure out what's going on with friends or family in the area: http://www.wwltv.com/

[livejournal.com profile] katrinacane is a collection of LJ'ers that decided to ride out the storm in New Orleans. Look at the friends view to see what's going on. Most people either no longer have power to post or got out. There's this one dude holed up with a lot of diesel fuel and some webcams though and it does provide at least one interesting perspective.

https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp to donate to the Red Cross.

https://secure.hsus.org/01/disaster_relief_fund_2005 to donate to the Humane Society of the United States Disaster Relief Fund to help animals and their people caught up in this.

[livejournal.com profile] zarq has a list of places you can donate here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/zarq/324486.html

[livejournal.com profile] elke_tanzer has a great post here, not just with ways to donate, but also information on volunteering to man call centers (located in Denver) coordinating rescue efforts. http://www.livejournal.com/users/elke_tanzer/649462.html

If you have other links on fund-raising, volunteering, resources or news sources/blogs that aren't what we're all already looking at, please comment and I will add them to this post.
A summary of the economics that lead us to this moment in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/wicked_wish/582898.html

via [livejournal.com profile] copperwise
- Macro impact of Katrina -- this thing is going to have a serious impact on the whole U.S. economy, not just the Gulf region and not just because of oil prices. Among other things, we're talking about a dislocation of people and jobs that has not been seen since the Dust Bowl.

- Journalism, weather reporting, risk-taking and disaster coverage. For those not in the know, I worked at the AP early in my career and I have very strong opinions about this sort of stuff and a lot to say.

- The weather reality -- people, we're at the _beginning_ of the hurricaine season.

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