Thursday, September 08, 2005

It's All About Retention, Really

So, I've been wallowing in my Sarah Vowell / Maureen Dowd reading frenzy, and came upon the most curious little tidbit in one of Ms. Dowd's essays from 1999, entitled Cultural Drifter:

He (W.) just finished Isaac's Storm, a history of the Galveston hurricane of 1900...

Too bad he didn't have to do a book report on it. How odd the hurricane hit on September 8, but since it was in Texas, I am sure there was nothing applicable to the situation in Louisiana.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

well it seems to me there would be lots of things about a hurricane in texas that would be applicable to one in louisiana. i mean, how different could....oh wait. that was your facetious voice, wasn't it?