rm ([personal profile] rm) wrote2005-09-08 08:44 pm

general update

Great show tonight, a reviewer from the Voice was there. So that's one more thing to wait on.

Had to turn down two days of work on a commercial because it conflicts with the show.

Got a call from Grant Wilfley to let me know the Taymor project needs me for a second day so I have another fitting tomorrow at noon.

I have an audition for an industrial at 9:15am tomorrow as well and a casting for Getty Images on Tuesday.

Meanwhile I am waiting on two acting checks, and, of course, the day job, but all seem likely to be in my hands by Monday.

Re: Ask and you shall receive. Second, sorry it's ugly.

[identity profile] mobobocita.livejournal.com 2005-09-09 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
For many of this country’s citizens the mantra has been as we were taught in Social Studies it should always be, rather or not I voted for this president, he is still my president. I suspect anybody who had to give him that benefit of doubt stopped doing so last week. I suspect also that his supporters looking ahead to 08 are wondering how they can distance themselves from the two words that will define his government, our government, New Orleans.

For him it is a shame in all senses of the word. A few changes of pronouns in there and he might not have looked so much like a 21st century Mary Antoinette. All it needed was a quick “I’m not satisfied with my government’s response” instead of hiding behind phrases like “No one could have foreseen” Had he only remembered Churchill’s quote from the 1930s. “The responsibility of government for the public safety,” Churchill said, “is absolute and requires no mandate. It is in fact the prime object for which governments come into existence.”

In forgetting that the current administration did not merely damage itself, it damaged our confidence in our ability to rely on who ever is in the White House. As we emphasized here all last week, the realities of the region are such that New Orleans is going to be largely uninhabitable for a lot longer than anybody is yet willing to recognize. Lord knows when the last body will be found, when the last artifact of the levee break dug up. Could be next march, could be year 2100. By then in the muck and toxic mire of New Orleans they may even find our government’s credibility, somewhere in the city of Louisiana.

Re: Ask and you shall receive. Second, sorry it's ugly.

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2005-09-09 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for doing that. And holy fucking shit.

Re: Ask and you shall receive. Second, sorry it's ugly.

[identity profile] mobobocita.livejournal.com 2005-09-09 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, he took a lot of balls to step up and say that, if you watch, you can see the emotions go across his face as he says it, the words alone don't catch his...rage I guess.

If only more media would step up, something might get done. I'm not holding my breath though.

Feel free to repost it.