brad's back...but not to stay (i blame angelina)

so, as many of you know brad pitt and angelina jolie had a brief love affair with new orleans, buying an amazing house in the quarter and enrolling their kids in the ecole-francaise in uptown new orleans. brad was quoted many times as saying that new orleans was the best place he's ever lived, that he felt comfortable here and that he was happy helping with the green project.

for those of you who don't know about the green project it's an amazing program wherein architects (and famous people like brad) build eco-friendly homes using recyclable materials, etc. in devastated areas in new orleans. it's the eco-friendly version of habitat for humanity. for more info on it please go to this link...

http://www.thegreenproject.org/

back to brad...

it seems that our globe-trotting lothario has now come back "home" to tour a 'green' house in the lower ninth ward. yesterday he came to new orleans and went out to the barren waste land that is the ninth ward and surveyed a partially built home in the holy cross (where my brother andrew goes to school) neighborhood. the things he said are actually kind of groovy...

"We knew we couldn't bring back the families and friends that were lost, bring back the heirlooms, the pictures. But maybe in the process of rebuilding, we could build something smarter -- we could create a better way of life for the people who live there,"

the house itself is also pretty awesome in terms of its eco-friendliness. now if only all houses could be built this way...

"The design...includes energy-saving appliances, a cistern, toilets designed for water conservation, soy-based insulation, paperless drywall, solar panels and a roof on the second-story deck designed to help insulate the house and channel water to the cistern."

sounds to me like brad is still doing his good work here even if he's abandoned us to live elsewhere. now if we could only lure him back into living here....

still reading the gunseller by hugh laurie (not much time to read lately)
last song i listened to: another girl, another planet by the only ones
movie i want to see next: superbad
storms in the gulf: hurricane dean's still there, weakened and not coming this way
weather today: 93, partly cloudy. feels about 108 with the heat index
days until my birthday: 6
days until my birthday party: 3