They found Fats

[WilliamPitt]

If you need a wee bright spot, here's one:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20050902/en_music_eo/17283

Fats Domino Found in New Orleans
By Gina Serpe
Fri Sep 2,12:22 AM ET

One of rock 'n' roll's chief architects has been rescued from the rubble of New Orleans.

Fats Domino, who had been unaccounted for in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, was plucked from the flooded city by a rescue boat.

His daughter, Karen Domino White, who lives in New Jersey, identified her father in a picture taken Monday night by a New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer. The singer is seen being helped from a boat by an emergency crew.

There was no word on where he was taken. There was also no word on the whereabouts of family members that had been with him before the storm hit.

An APB went out for the musician and his family soon after the levees broke and inundated his neighborhood in the city's 9th Ward, an area that is now littered with dead bodies.

The musician's niece, Checquoline Davis, posted a plea on Craigslist.com for information on her missing relatives, writing that Domino and his wife, Rosemary, and their children and grandchildren "didn't get out" of their New Orleans home. Her plea was one of thousands seeking information on missing friends and family on the site.

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[The Backlash Cometh]

1. I hope we'll be hearing some powerful music coming out soon

regarding this country's response to Katrina.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Some more information on Fats' whereabouts

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4553737

A Philly DJ and a FOAF of a DUer have also spoken about this. It appears that Fats Domino and his wife are each alive and well, if a little shaken by the experience.

If you're looking through lists of the rescued and the lost for confirmation, he will probably be listed as Antoine Dominique or Antoine Domino.

--p!