If it’s not one thing it’s another. There’s a slight plumbing problem at the house two doors down. It looks like the landlord is trying…
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If it’s not one thing it’s another. There’s a slight plumbing problem at the house two doors down. It looks like the landlord is trying…
I haven’t consumed an alcoholic beverage since Mardi Gras. A number of my friends “kinda sorta” gave up alcohol for Lent, but they all gave…
There’s an article about us in today’s Inside Out, the Times-Picayune’s Saturday home & garden magazine. Ironically enough, I still can’t get the paper delivered to our home.
REBUILDING IN MID-CITY IS STOP AND GO
Saturday, April 08, 2006
By Stephanie Bruno
Contributing writerNOTE: Meet Bart Everson and Christy Paxson, who live on North Salcedo Street just off Canal Street. Though they moved back into the upstairs of their house in November, it was another month before they had power, and several more before work began on repairing the flood damage downstairs. We will drop in on them from time to time to check on their progress.
Normally we have a meeting of all staff at the beginning of each semester. But this semester is hardly normal; we had the meeting today.…
Xy came home from Indiana on Wednesday. When she entered our house, she immediately noticed an unpleasant odor, something beneath my level of perception, but…
There are low-hanging tree branches on the Jeff Davis bike path. As MaPó said, it can be “cruel to the tall and the swift.” I…
The US Army Corps of Engineers now admits the failure of the 17th Street canal floodwalls was caused by a “design failure.” Or, put it…
Many ages ago, in my pre-Katrina life, I had embarked on an cinematic odyssey via Netflix, to see all the movies I’d always wanted to…
I went to a candidate forum last night for City Council districts A, B, C and at-large. As an experiment, I kept a crude scorecard…
A tip of the hat to my brother-in-law and his bride. They’re getting married today. Xy’s in Bloomington for the event, doing something she never…
I recently bemoaned the lack of any Green Party candidates in the upcoming New Orleans elections. But apparently I was wrong. Somehow, I overlooked Paul…
As abruptly as it began, work on our house is stopping for a while. Mark and Tony, the carpenters, will be working on one of…
Red Cross came through and gave me accounts Now I’m at your town getting golds in my mouth I got this New Orleans bounce track…
I live in New Orleans City Council District B, which includes part of Mid-City, the CBD, the Garden District and Irish Channel, Central City and…
The carpenters are going great guns on our house. The termite damage and the rot are more extensive than I realized, so they’re essentially replacing…
I was just feeling overwhelmed by how many, many New Orleans blogs have appeared since Katrina. Then I got bitten by this viral linking campaign…
Oh, by the way, my counterpart J has started a blog, with Day, documenting their efforts toward the erection of a new domicile. It’s at…
Mayoral candidate Virginia Boulet spoke for about ten minutes at a neighborhood meeting I attended last week. I really liked what she had to say.…
When Xy came home from work yesterday, she saw a man on the street who gave her a “nasty look.” He was headed between our…
The meme seems to go something like this: In our state, officials use third-grade reading levels to project the number of prison beds that will…