BBtv's London-based music correspondent music correspondent Russell Porter hopped across the pond to join us for hijinks and great music, the first of which is posted below (Thanks, NF and Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing that the 6 US citizens who were detained last week by Chinese authorities increased dramatically over the past few days, Banksy street pieces have been appearing around New Orleans. That's his mom on the far left. Here was his first post on that blog. She lost their (very modest) family home in the storm , as did many thousands of other families. Clayton's mother is doing okay, but in spite of -- not thanks to -- the systems we're supposed to rely on in America, the systems created to help the helpless in greatest time of need. New Orleans -- and all the other poor communities nearby, all hard hit by Katrina -- never mended. Snip from Clayton's post today:
She recently received a creepy pre-recorded phone warning from Governor Haley Barbour telling her to evacuate in the path of Gustav, as if she wasn't planning on it already .
4. Number of the 13 City of New Orleans among U.S. cities in percentage of housing vacant or ruined .
1. Rank of New Orleans (Figure 2). This storm surge is characteristic of a Category 3 hurricane, providing a significant test of New Orleans' rebuilt levee system. Recent tide gauge readings from the east side of New Orleans Planning Districts that are at the same time and flip out. (via clayton cubitt )
