Oddly wandering in from Teland, I found your journal...and this entry...Considering I've been doing this Katrina-pics thing all last week, and possibly more of next week, depending on pic quality...may I link this?
So. End results, that we've heard of. Samuel Jackson rented a 100-unit apartment building so a hundred evacuee families in Memphis could get a leg up and out of the temp shelter. (That was overheard on The Daily Show; no external confirmation, but I'd wonder why he'd lie in front of the fans of TDS; we DO fact-check obsessively when we feel like it.) Also according to Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones in Texas has been holding 4,000-person "dinners" for the evacuees that hit Houston--was it Houston?--because he wanted to help in a concrete way.
There's that, and then there's Steven Seagal, who until tonight I had only a bare modicum of respect for. How'ver, tonight he shows up on MSNBC, trying to stay out of the light as much as possible. When Rita Crosby, the reporter "on the scene", managed to coax words out of him, he confirmed he was down there to "help out". The Jefferson Parish sheriff confirmed that he was down there to lend a hand, lend his support for "a few days", in part because of his previous SWAT certification.
I don't know how he got it--this was the first I've heard of it--but I had a former landlord who went from prison guard to SWAT commander, and it took him three solid YEARS of training. Not weekends, not months, YEARS. So Seagal had to put in the time.
And I've heard the Penn story, and seen pics, here and there.
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Date: 2005-09-13 10:19 am (UTC)So. End results, that we've heard of. Samuel Jackson rented a 100-unit apartment building so a hundred evacuee families in Memphis could get a leg up and out of the temp shelter. (That was overheard on The Daily Show; no external confirmation, but I'd wonder why he'd lie in front of the fans of TDS; we DO fact-check obsessively when we feel like it.) Also according to Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones in Texas has been holding 4,000-person "dinners" for the evacuees that hit Houston--was it Houston?--because he wanted to help in a concrete way.
There's that, and then there's Steven Seagal, who until tonight I had only a bare modicum of respect for. How'ver, tonight he shows up on MSNBC, trying to stay out of the light as much as possible. When Rita Crosby, the reporter "on the scene", managed to coax words out of him, he confirmed he was down there to "help out". The Jefferson Parish sheriff confirmed that he was down there to lend a hand, lend his support for "a few days", in part because of his previous SWAT certification.
I don't know how he got it--this was the first I've heard of it--but I had a former landlord who went from prison guard to SWAT commander, and it took him three solid YEARS of training. Not weekends, not months, YEARS. So Seagal had to put in the time.
And I've heard the Penn story, and seen pics, here and there.
So that's four.
Where's everyone else?