Brad Pitt Takes On New Orleans

Brad Pitt was in New Orleans yesterday, touring an ecologically sustainable single-family home being built by Global Green USA, an environmental group he supports.

So there he is, la de dee, la de da, doing this and that and the other, when suddenly he spoke. Everyone was like, "Holy fuck, the moron can talk". Fights broke out, animals started to attack each other and a spaceship landed and out walked Jerry Lewis, the old prick from the muscular dystrophy telethons.

Okay, 40% of that didn't happen, but Brad Pitt did have these words to say in regard to all things New Orleans:

The actor praised the house in the Holy Cross area of the ward as a "small victory" for efforts to rebuild the city, but said, "it's hard to find an overall victory when you see how slowly everything is still moving. And Katrina was a man-made disaster. This house is a man-made solution."

Before you jump to conclusions and read into this more than what needs to be read into, I don't believe Pitt meant that hurricane Katrina was a man-made disaster in the sense where it's a global warming thing, I think he's trying to say that the man-made aspect of the whole disaster has to do with the poor shape of the levees. Then again, who knows, maybe he meant it was about global warming.

Usually slack-jawed Hollyweird pylons are easy to understand because they only talk in five word sentences with each word no longer than three or four letters. Pitt threw us for a loop when he used the words, "solution", "disaster" and "everything". But I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

In other Pitt/hurricane news, let's hear about this ecologically sustainable single-family dwelling he was there to see:

The environmental group has pledged to create a residential community of "green" structures, including an 18-unit, low-income apartment building near the Mississippi.

Pitt, 43, said the redevelopment project could help encourage people whose homes were destroyed in the storm to return and rebuild in a more environmentally conscious fashion.

Although most residents have taken off from New Orleans, vowing never to go back to that filthy, crime-ridden, lawless, corrupt cesspool, I'm sure most will move back knowing that 18 sustainable units have been built (in 2 years).

Somehow I think most homeless Norlean residents couldn't give a damn whether they have solar panels on their roof or high-energy lightbulbs, they pretty much just want a roof and some electricity.

Build more houses faster, you sustainable slugs