While many of my neighbors are trying to get hot water in their houses, we’ve been longing for cold water. See, we got our gas…
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While many of my neighbors are trying to get hot water in their houses, we’ve been longing for cold water. See, we got our gas…
Tomorrow we vote on thirteen amendments to the Louisiana constitution. In a futile attempt to make sense of the issues on the table, I’ve compiled…
When Herb and Jenny came to visit last weekend, they were surprised to find Herb’s picture hanging in our hallway. Jenny took this picture, which…
My friend Daisy told me the following Katrina story. It’s a simple tale, but kind of chilling. I wanted to record it before I forget.…
Today is the day when the Saints return to the Superdome. I think everybody who lives in New Orleans is pretty happy about that, even…
If you walk around my block you will see… Flooded homes. Some have been completely renovated, some are currently being renovated, some have been gutted…
ROX #94, “Hangover Cures,” is finished. The core video was shot in the Quarter about a month before Katrina. Putting it together was a labor…
Roy Bragg writes about NOLA bloggers (including yours truly) in the San Antonio Express-News.
Both elevators are out of commission for the last few days, so I’ve been using the emergency stairwell to get to and from my office…
The most interesting thing Xy and I did over the weekend was to attend the premiere bout of the Big Easy Rollergirls at Mardi Gras…
I know I mentioned this a couple weeks ago, but I thought I’d plug it again because my copy just arrived in the mail. Now…
Xy and I are continuing our alphacinematic odyssey, at a much reduced pace. I don’t have as many evenings to watch movies as I once…
Michael and I met Dave Coustan (a.k.a. the Earthling) at Finn McCool’s yesterday after work, to talk about Mid-City’s desperate thirst for WiFi. Earthlink is…
I’ll be on the local CBS affiliate, WWL channel 4, sometime this evening, talking about you-know-what.
I was on the local news last night — top of the ten o’clock hour. They pegged it to Nagin’s 100+3 day press conference, citing…
I think I’ll be on the local news tonight (ABC 26 at 9 and 10) with some other Mid-City residents, talking about that corner grocery.…
At last, an easy way to geocode Flickr pix. You can see some of my pix on a map here.
A few days after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, I wrote a short essay titled “I Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse.” Sadly, it…
I write here without editorial filter. Sometimes I wish I had one. So it was a pleasure to write an op-ed piece for the Times-Picayune, which appeared in this morning’s paper. It was nice to have a second set of eyes checking my work. Here’s what I wrote, followed by some notes.