Thursday, September 29, 2005

Cats one, maid zero

And here we are reading the article that praises a true american hero who is discussing how to rescue the cats: LINK

And all that Blair, an Aussie blogger, can think about is: What happened to the maid?

I’m in the lounge of the Four Seasons with Sean Penn and other assorted media creatures, debating the merits of rescuing animals instead of humans in a disaster area. To my left is the eminent historian Douglas Brinkley, a friendly academic whose careful diction reminds me of Bob Woodward’s. Brinkley is my contact in Houston. He’s friends with Penn, and when he evacuated his home in New Orleans earlier in the week, he left his cats and his maid behind in the flood zone. Now he and Penn are talking about commandeering private jets, helicopters and weapons for a grand mission into hell that begins tomorrow.Two points of interest here. One: Brinkley has a maid. Two: he left her behind in the flood zone. ......No word on whether Brinkley’s maid got out. She isn’t mentioned after the second paragraph.