We closed the shop down for the second and third week in August; the first substantial break from e-mail and voice-mail that Mrs.C and I have had since we met more than 10 years ago. Our shop re-openned in late August, and I had intended to start blogging again last Monday, but as events unfolded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina I found I had nothing to say. Today I seem to have my voice back.

The response from the nation and world to the disaster in our city four years ago was so unbelievably positive, and I look back on that time with a strange sense of nostalgia and pride. Watching things (fail to) unfold in New Orleans has left us stunned – I can’t believe that we’ve had to wait five days to finally see photos of mass distribution of food and water, and helicopter evaculations of hospital patients. I know this isn’t the best we can do, not nearly, and I feel ashamed.

We’ll be back in full swing on Tuesday. Some exciting news about the goings on in the shop, and if we can work out the details so we don’t looks like a bunch of self-promoting assholes jumping on the band wagon, maybe a way that Comstock Films and our viewers can offer a token of support to the people of the Gulf Coast.

Till then Mrs. C and I are going to spend this long weekend enjoying time with our family and friends, mindful of how very fortunate we are.

-TC

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