Hurricane and flood relief

You may have noticed--and if you haven't, I am calling your attention to--the second ad on the right-hand sidebar asking for donations for hurricane relief. (Unless, of course, you are on dialup, in which case you probably stop the page loading before the ads appear.) Chris Bowers at My DD did all the work to put together an alliance of liberal bloggers to offer the ad for free, including getting BlogAds to donate the infrastructure and other organizations to track the progress of the fundraising. All proceeds go directly to the Red Coss: neither I nor Blog Ads takes any profit from that particular ad, which will be up for the next two weeks.

Billmon also has a great list of places taking donations for relief.

And finally, an additional source for donations that is especially dear to jazz-loving me: the Preservation Hall Hurricane Relief Fund, which will donate 100% of the money raised to New Orleans musicians. Most working musicians, as you know, live a pretty hand-to-mouth existence. Preservation Hall will even give you a free t-shirt if you can donate $150 or more.

By the way, Fats Domino is missing.

Also by the way, those of you who emailed me in the last couple of weeks will, eventually, get a response; I'm a little backlogged, and I have syllabi to whack together and meetings to attend for the semester that starts next week....