The Horror

I was always amused by this in Neil's BBC office.

Now to The Horror. We were all shaken as we watched the images from New Orleans last night and, I was overwhelmed by the immense destruction and suffering so close to home. (I was a little embarrassed,too, by my whining about the electric after seeing what those poor souls are going through.)

Last night I emailed all managers to prepare fund-raising ideas and this morning put an ad in The Wire announcing the first: Miss Amy Rivers' Labor Day Drag Relief performance. I also contacted The Rainbow Fund, an organization that uses it's vast resources to organize benefits from the gay community to those in need. From there it will be simple; gays love donating to a good cause while they can drink and have fun. And Mrs. Astor is particularly good at squeezing money out of people. She's mastered the acquired art of Southern Charm with her born talent as a shrewd Yankee and mixed it with a Rhode Island indifference to resorting to threats. You have to do what you have to do.