Q: In your book [Dispatches from the Edge], you mention all the celebrities who showed up in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Does any one encounter stand out as the most bizarre?
ANDERSON COOPER: Steven Seagal. A cop car pulls up, and I'm thinking, 'Weird, that guy looks like Steven Seagal.' Then I realize that it is Steven Seagal. And it's not just Steven Seagal; it's Steven Seagal in uniform out on patrol with the Jefferson Parish SWAT Team. I was oddly transfixed, so I went up to him. He was like, "Yeah, I'm just out here doing my thing. I don't want to make a big deal out of it." The next day I saw him on MSNBC with Rita Cosby. I'm like, 'Oh, okay. Real D.L.'
Then when he leaves, he makes eye contact and does a little Buddhist bow -- that little sensei thing. [Laughs] It's hard to beat that one.
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My take on this, w/ a pic of Seagal w/ the SWAT Team, plus Bush's Marvel comic books-writing domestic policy advisor, and Chuck Norris's stint with Texas police officers during a real-life drug raid in Terrell, Texas, is here:
http://syndicalist.livejournal.com/428011.html
-B.