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NOLA

Soooo very glad to report that my closest pals – Kajunbear, Dale and Dave, Elyn, Paul and Greg, and a few others I've heard about are all OK and out of the area. None seem to know when they can return.

I'm just sickened, though, by the images I saw today on TV: in a corner outside the Superdome, a woman in a wheelchair, dead, covered with a dirty blanket, next to another blanketed corpse lying on the ground; people chanting “WE NEED HELP! WE NEED HELP!”; Bush lame response…

Randi Rhodes in her tirade this afternoon kept pointing out how Bush had diverted funds to Iraq from the LA Army Corps of Engineers' efforts to maintain the levees: “A levee that is not 100% completed is !00% ineffective.”

Paul had just emailed to ask if I'd be on the advisory board of Saints & Sinners, the glbtq litfest in May which I've helped program the past two years – which we nicknamed “Books, Beads, & Booze.” Who knows if there'll even be a place to have it.

Published by Ron Suresha

Ron Jackson Suresha is an editor, anthologist, and writer. He is considered an authority on emergent queer masculinities, in particular the subcultures of gay and bi male Bears and of male bisexuality. For Ron's service to the bear community, he was named "Bear of the Year" 2008. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Suresha attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 1976-8), where he studied creative writing, and Vista College (Berkeley, Cal., 1989-92), where he studied American Sign Language. For more than two decades, he has worked as a freelance proofreader for trade book publishers such as Shambhala Publications. He was married in October 2004 to Rocco Russo. He is also a licensed Justice of the Peace in Connecticut, an ordained minister, ULC, and a member of the New London Green Party. Nonfiction works include Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions; Bi Men: Coming Out (coeditor, with Pete Chvany); Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey (editor). His latest book is The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero, published by Lethe Press.