…and reading one of my pieces at the book launch tomorrow. Here’s the one I plan to read. It’s pretty good for a baby blogger if I do say so myself. It’s dated 1/15/06:
Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him…
…is the title of a 1968 LP by those wacky funstersFiresign Theatre
who were kinda sorta the Yank version of Monty Python. I devoted part
of my misspent adolescence listening to their records. (For the young
uns reading this: A record is a black thing made of vinyl that is played
with a needle. Ouch.) Now, you’re probably asking yourself what the
hell Firesign Theatre has to do with my post-K blog. Not a whole helluva
lot but the title is an appropriate one to…um…appropriate and
apply to the FEMA trailer issue here in Debrisville circa 2006. The
front page of yesterday’s local rag had another story about <drum
roll>finger pointingon
the trailer issue. Mayor C Ray blames FEMA; FEMA blames Entergy;
Entergy blames City Hall, the contractors hired by FEMA and Yoko Ono
who, in turn, blames Paul McCartney. To paraphrase the late Senator from
Louisiana, Russell Long, “Don’t blame you, don’t blame me, blame that
fella behind the tree.” Senator Son of Huey was talking about taxes
instead of the blame game but I think you catch my drift.
The
process to get a trailer, or a flooded house for that matter, energized
is a cumbersome one. It has 3-steps: A licensed electrician and, then, a
city inspector must approve the work *before* Entergy sends a crew out
to energize the trailer/house whatever. And to slow things down even
more, at times the city has had as few as 2 electrical inspectors on the
job post-K. Chief Nagin Clone Greg Meffert has said for weeks that he
was considering cutting out step-2 (the city inspection) but he still
has not done so. Once again, C Ray and his krewe of clones are making a
problem worse by talking instead of acting. They not only need to wake
up and smell the coffee, they need to drink some and pronto. C Ray and
his krewe of clones seem determined to live up (down?) to another
Firesign Theatre album title, “I Think We’re All Bozos On This Bus.”