shrift!

I need your mailing address. I think you sent it to me before, but I misplaced it.

I've got glam rock to send you. Also, Neo-Glam. Maybe more.

hecubot at gmail is good.

It opens tomorrow - info is right here. I'll only be working Saturdays, and sporadically at that due to Emmett's birthday, my grandfather's memorial service, and other family stuff, but I'll definitely be there tomorrow, the following Saturday, probably October 1, and definitely all of closing weekend.

From the NY Times, the reason for the delayed Federal response to Katrina. It's so fucked up.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - As New Orleans descended into chaos last week and Louisiana's governor asked for 40,000 soldiers, President Bush's senior advisers debated whether the president should speed the arrival of active-duty troops by seizing control of the hurricane relief mission from the governor.

For reasons of practicality and politics, officials at the Justice Department and the Pentagon, and then at the White House, decided not to urge Mr. Bush to take command of the effort. Instead, the Washington officials decided to rely on the growing number of National Guard personnel flowing into Louisiana, who were under Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco's control.

The debate began after officials realized that Hurricane Katrina had exposed a critical flaw in the national disaster response plans created after the Sept. 11 attacks. According to the administration's senior domestic security officials, the plan failed to recognize that local police, fire and medical personnel might be incapacitated.

As criticism of the response to Hurricane Katrina has mounted, one of the most pointed questions has been why more troops were not available more quickly to restore order and offer aid. Interviews with officials in Washington and Louisiana show that as the situation grew worse, they were wrangling with questions of federal/state authority, weighing the realities of military logistics and perhaps talking past each other in the crisis.

To seize control of the mission, Mr. Bush would have had to invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows the president in times of unrest to command active-duty forces into the states to perform law enforcement duties. But decision makers in Washington felt certain that Ms. Blanco would have resisted surrendering control, as Bush administration officials believe would have been required to deploy active-duty combat forces before law and order had been re-established.

While combat troops can conduct relief missions without the legal authority of the Insurrection Act, Pentagon and military officials say that no active-duty forces could have been sent into the chaos of New Orleans on Wednesday or Thursday without confronting law-and-order challenges.

But just as important to the administration were worries about the message that would have been sent by a president ousting a Southern governor of another party from command of her National Guard, according to administration, Pentagon and Justice Department officials.

I just saw a different schedule and it said they were playing at The Fillmore on Sunday and Monday. We need to double check.

Sunday and Monday. [link]

So what are people doing for the weekend?

Movie/dinner with the BF tonight.

Help BF move into his new apt. on Sat/Sun.

Somewhere in there, I need to do homework.

Thanks, JZ!

I think you sent it to me before, but I misplaced it.

I am the queen of this.

I've got glam rock to send you.

Woo hoo! Insent!

Yes, thanks JZ. I may wait until a later weekend, to make sure I go while I am healthy and you are working, but I will see.

So what are people doing for the weekend?

Tonight: Slounge w/Z, watching DVDs and eating Chinese food. This has replaced going to the opening night of Hamlet, for which I am profoundly grateful.

Tomorrow: Rehearse for 5 hours, run for 4 hours, go to a good-bye party.

Sunday: Rehearse for 10 out of 12 hours, collapse.

Conductor! Hold that train going to Hell, please!

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Rep. Baker of Baton Rouge is overheard telling lobbyists: "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."