DH Riley Presents

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Oh, Michael?


Louisiana Senator Charlie Melancon has Mike Brown's emails from this Labor Day on his website today. Besides the general feeling that we hired a rich, bored office drone to run our country's emergency responders, the thing that really struck me was: "Wow, Brownie's a bit of a...queen?" A long, surreal chain of emails surrounding what Brown is supposed to wear on TV that night "Tie or not?" concludes with one of his female subordinates telling him "You look fabulous - and I'm talking the makeup!", and Brown responding "If you look at my lovely FEMA attire you'll really vomit. I am a fashion god." This is apparently the story of Nero all over again, except instead of fiddling he's watching Queer Eye.