Joe Max...

...is a man who takes the ball and RUNS with it. **(09/07/Addenda)

Reader Joe Max was generous, patient and artful enough to take my photoessay of "Us and Them" and set it to music with a few embellishments of his own.

It's wonderful -- much better and more melancholy/operatic than the original -- and what a damned nice thing to do. And also please note the plug for the Red Cross at the end; we all know who got us in this mess...and who, in the end, will help get us out.

I'd post his email in a minute, but he signs his work with his nom de guerre and I respect a man's privacy, so all I can say is, way to go, Joe.


**(09/07/Addenda)
It appears that Joe's site has been FEMA-ed and this video became mysteriously unavailabled (1...2...3 "I Blame Clinton!")

...but not before the good people at Progressive Independent picked up the ball and ran it even further down the field.

So it's here, at this site .

And, as Joe informed us in the comments "...you can find the ZIPped archive of the BIG SCREEN version with HI FIDELITY sound (the only way to listen to Pink Floyd) here.)

So, as Mr. Max says, "...you're too late, MiBs! Bwahahaha!"


You done good, Joe.

Real good.

Take a bow.