Archive for August 28th, 2006
Katrina Counterpoint
Sundance Channel ran Mardi Gras Made in China as a counterpoint to our Katrina rememberances. The documentary maker interviews Mardi Gras partiers and the Chinese people who make their beads - both being completely ignorant of each other. The beads might as well have been dropped from Mars; when the workers were shown what was [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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Revisiting (or never leaving) Katrina
One year later. The posts from last year, on it dawns on us that this was something.
NBC’s Brian Williams tonight with a retrospect. The pictures are still hard to grasp.
Posted: August 28th, 2006 under Brooklyn.
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