On Friday Xy took some of the neighbor kids to the North Shore for a swim at Fontainbleau State Park. But the lake was closed…
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On Friday Xy took some of the neighbor kids to the North Shore for a swim at Fontainbleau State Park. But the lake was closed…
Did you know you can watch the space shuttle take off from Vero Beach? We didn’t. So we just missed it last Friday. “Hey, I…
Back in September of 2005, I wondered if Katrina would become an campaign issue in 2008. Now pollster John Zogby says it just might: 73…
Upon our return to New Orleans, we had a bit of laundry to do, so I made my way to a nearby laundromat. This place…
Lots of things happened while I was on vacation and generally disconnected. Congressman William Jefferson was indicted. No big surprise there, since he’s been under…
I ran a screen of partially pre-written posts last week because Xy and I were on vacation. Herewith, a brief memoir of our week in…
Woo to the hoo. We’ve reached the final letter of the alphabet. We watched three films that began with Z. Z (1969) This is a…
Three films that start with Y. The Yes Men (2004) This documentary chronicles the global adventures of a pair of ingenious and ballsy political pranksters.…
Everybody knows that X is the coolest letter in the alphabet, yet there was only one X movie on my list: X: The Unheard Music…
We are rapidly closing in on the end of this three-year video adventure. For those just joining us, we’ve been watching all the movies I’ve…
The spammers are finally breaking me down. I’ve had the same e-mail address for over ten years, maybe as long as twelve years. I have…
Some days I feel pretty gloomy about the way things are going in my little area of Mid-City. But on other days I feel much…
If only he’d stopped with his prepared remarks — “and justice for all!” But no… He had to go off script at the end. All…
Kudos to Silence Is Violence for letting people know about Nagin’s State of the City address tomorrow. [Wednesday, May 30, 6:30pm, Nat’l D-Day Museum]
They’ve finally started work on the house next door to ours, which has been an eyesore for years. They’ve decided to renovate rather than demolish.…
I got a call a couple weeks ago from Tavis Smiley’s people. They wanted me to promote a television show on my blog. I’ve heard…
Yesterday’s Boogaloo was a screaming success, with something like 10,000 attendees. (Charlie London has posted a video.) Today the bayou saw more action. After weeks…
I saw something this morning, after I’d opened my eyes but before I put on my glasses. In my blurry vision, it looked like a…
Today the Times-Picayune is running the 20th story in their series on the renovation of our home. If you can score the print version, there’s a fun picture of Xy on our front porch.
I remember last year at this time, I was skeptical. What kind of screwed-up, misplaced priorities do my neighbors have, planning a festival when we…