Project Gulf Impact is in between. Floating somewhere in a venn diagram between activism, journalism, documentary filmmaking, social media, and trying to accurately convey what's actually going on in the Gulf of Mexico. "It would be adding a crime to a crime," Thad Allen said, "if we didn't make this one of the great learning laboratories in the history of this country." And indeed we are. PGI has been told, interview after interview, that this is "the grand experiment." I don't find "grand" to be the choice word, but you get the idea.
One of the pleasures of operating the way we do - on a shoestring budget that barely affords us two meals a day and the gas to get from one interview to the next and not much else - is that we get the opportunity, the privilege, of staying in the homes of Gulf coast residents that we have met along the way. These homes - warm environments where "home cooking" still means something (especially to the Cajuns!) - make me miss the trips to my grandparent's homes in the midwest and southern Texas more than anything else.
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