Sep. 3rd, 2005

I know there are people on my friends list trying to get animals out. It seems like pet rescue is now happening as well:

from the Times-Picayune:

Friday, 9:50 p.m.

There's hope for stranded pets in the New Orleans area. The Louisiana SPCA, New Orleans' animal control agency, has begun rescuing pets from owners houses.

Louisiana SPCA director Laura Maloney said shelter workers follow other agencies and crews through neighborhoods and rescue pets, some that are locked in houses. At the owners' request, "we break in," she said.

Owners have to call or email the operation and give their name and address and information about where the pet is confined.

The hotline number is: 1-225-578-6111. E-mail should be sent to Katrinaanimalrescue@yahoo.com.

The hotline already is in effect, Maloney said. "It's busy an awful lot. We are trying to get a bank of telephones"
My show went really well last night, but I'm glad it's over. My parents like it, as did the employer who came to it. Today I go into rehearsals for the Praxis thing. On Tuesday, we have a photoshoot for the New York Times before we open.

Kali's birthday is tonight, which means I have to wrap a present and go make a marzipan snake. Don't ask.

The situation on the Gulf Coast continues to fascinate, exhaust and frighten me. My parents at dinner last night in some pseudo-French Bistro in Times Square that sells Versinthe asked me if I were passionate about anything else in life right now, which made me really angry. I trust I don't need to explain why.

I"ve seen a tide-turning in terms of the perception of the media here online that gladdens me. I've seen a lot of uttter shit watching the news every night and a lot of reporters who need yelling at, and I missed the Geraldo moment (although I'm actually not surprised by it, he's as complex a figure in the span of modern news as there is) documented here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/guerillanews/664959.html but the folks who are doing good work are doing amazing work. the last couple of nights I seem to have had a 2am date to cry with Anderson Cooper as that idiot woman on CNN:HN interviews him about what's going on wherever he is.
http://villagevoice.com/news/0536,kamenetzweb2,67487,2.html

Excellent, excellent essay.

I grew up Jewish, taught a liturgy of exile and loss. It's a vocabulary that now comes to hand. Just two weeks ago, Jews sat on our floors to read the Book of Lamentations by candlelight, mourning once again the destruction of our own walled city, Jerusalem. The book in Hebrew is called Eicha, chanted in two drawn-out notes, meaning How. How can this be? Wherefore this destruction?

The rabbis of the Talmud have an answer: The Temple was destroyed the last time, and the city sacked, because of causeless hatred. Brother for brother.

"As for us, our eyes do yet fail for our vain help; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save."

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