Granted, the video clip is a little small, it has a digital hiccup on the word “alarmist,” and it ends a syllable too soon… but still, it’s proof, for those who missed it, that I really was in a Spike Lee movie. :)
P.P.S.Here’s the post that I read aloud in the movie. Here, here, here and here are discussions of why that “100,000″ number really wasn’t far-fetched at all, and it was only dumb luck that Katrina’s toll wasn’t far worse than what actually occurred.
P.P.P.S. If anybody has a higher-resolution video, and/or a clip of my self-identification/website plug at the end, please e-mail me at tips [at] brendanloy.com. Thanks!
Nice work, Brendan
I was wondering, since I haven’t seen the film, whether commenters from your post were referenced. From reading some of the comments, many were in agreement with you on the possible negative ramifications pre-Katrina making landfall.
Of course not. Attribution is not Loy’s bag, baby.
In any event, I’m glad to have been part of a blog that, as Mickey Kaus so ham-fistedly described it, “deserved to be in the Smithsonian,” or some such nonsense.
Loy is the Arthur Kent of the blogosphere. We know how this story ends.
Actually, technically that’s not true. They made a point of NOT calling it a “Spike Lee joint.” I don’t know why, but they did. See Spike’s Wikipedia entry: “Always credits his films as ‘A Spike Lee Joint’. (Except When the Levees Broke, which is credited as a Spike Lee film)”
And Leahy, I object. Attribution is, in fact, my bag. I’ve given you two hat tips (1, 2), the second of which came after your (now paroled) banishment from the blog. :)
August 30th, 2006 at 10:52:30 am
Nice work, Brendan
I was wondering, since I haven’t seen the film, whether commenters from your post were referenced. From reading some of the comments, many were in agreement with you on the possible negative ramifications pre-Katrina making landfall.
August 30th, 2006 at 3:52:19 pm
Yeah, did they reference Leahy?
August 30th, 2006 at 4:43:28 pm
Of course not. Attribution is not Loy’s bag, baby.
In any event, I’m glad to have been part of a blog that, as Mickey Kaus so ham-fistedly described it, “deserved to be in the Smithsonian,” or some such nonsense.
Loy is the Arthur Kent of the blogosphere. We know how this story ends.
August 30th, 2006 at 5:54:34 pm
You were in a Spike Lee Joint, not a Spike Lee movie.
August 30th, 2006 at 6:04:38 pm
Actually, technically that’s not true. They made a point of NOT calling it a “Spike Lee joint.” I don’t know why, but they did. See Spike’s Wikipedia entry: “Always credits his films as ‘A Spike Lee Joint’. (Except When the Levees Broke, which is credited as a Spike Lee film)”
And Leahy, I object. Attribution is, in fact, my bag. I’ve given you two hat tips (1, 2), the second of which came after your (now paroled) banishment from the blog. :)
August 30th, 2006 at 7:49:48 pm
Damn. You sound like the late, great Bruno Kirby.
August 30th, 2006 at 8:48:49 pm
I forgot all about that exchange between Leahy and David. Classic material!