Category: Briefly
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Hopefully you’ve been following my column on Mid-City Messenger, now into its second year. I’m doing my best to keep up a regular weekly rhythm, with fresh content every Monday, alternating between prose and photos. I’ve now got my own tag on the site, so check it out.
Read More → TaggedBart Everson’s First Fifty
On the 17th day of 2017, join me to celebrate my half-century mark. Tuesday, January 17, 2017, 6-UNTIL at Banks St Bar 4401 Banks St, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 Details subject to change. Check Facebook for updates.
Read More → Bart Everson’s First FiftyAtheism Reconsidered
By the way, I’ve got an essay published on the Humanistic Paganism website, “The Impossibility of Atheism.” Check it out, and by all means let me know what you think, over there or over here or however you prefer.
Read More → Atheism ReconsideredHangin’ with 13ers
Just excavated an old paper, not by me but about me — check it out.
Read More → Hangin’ with 13ersNew Orleans bicyclists enjoy improved conditions
I’m quoted in this article by the indefatigable R Stephanie Bruno.
Read More → New Orleans bicyclists enjoy improved conditionsObama Prediction
I’m going out on a limb and predict Obama wins in 2012. You may scoff but remember I have an unblemished record of success in this arena.
Read More → Obama PredictionWeb 20
Forget two-point-oh, the web is turning two-oh (that’s twenty) in just over a month. Please join the celebration.
Read More → Web 20Extra Money
Got my check for working as an extra for HBO’s Treme. It seems the going rate for this kind of work around here is $7.25/hour for a non-union extra like me. Eight hours of that plus four hours at time and a half equals $101.50; after taxes, I got $95.77.
Read More → Extra MoneyThe Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
I was just coming home from the first real parade of the carnival season, fired up and aglow with the love, and I get online and I check my e-mail and I find myself on Facebook, looking at a kindly invitation to enjoy the next night’s diversions, looking at the profile of a friend, and […]
Read More → The Love That Dare Not Speak Its NameTriumph of the Shin
Last Mardi Gras, a dog bit me on the calf. The marks are still visible today, one full year after the fact. I was recently informed that the dog has died. A friend joked that I had come out on top, which I thought was funny, but I do feel sorry for the dog and […]
Read More → Triumph of the ShinStirrings Espresso
Stirrings Espresso liqueur contains caffeine. The label notes that it contains caramel coloring, and not a word about caffeine. But trust me — it’s in there. Stands to reason, I guess. Live and learn. Now it’s after midnight, and I’m wired.
Read More → Stirrings EspressoWhat’s Up with FeedBurner
Folks who subscribe to e-mail updates for this blog (via Feedburner) may have noticed they aren’t coming regularly. This problem has been ongoing for about a week and I really have no idea why.
Read More → What’s Up with FeedBurnerRevelation 11:18
The time has come … for destroying those who destroy the earth. Revelation 11:18 (New International Version, ©1984)
Read More → Revelation 11:1825,000+
In addition to Xy’s birthday, we’re also celebrating Persephone’s 25,000th hour of life today; but how to explain this number to a toddler?
Read More → 25,000+Famous at Last
In case you missed it, a photo by yours truly featuring the infamous Xy is gracing an article on Lifehacker right now.
Read More → Famous at LastUndrafted
I just unearthed an old post, incomplete and never published, about going to church with Xy. I dusted it off, fleshed it out to the best of my memory, and it’s now available in the archives under March 18, 2007, which is probably wrong but it’s my best guess.
Read More → UndraftedConnect the Dots
Some people criticize the green movement for being almost like a religious faith. Others say the green movement has lost touch with its spiritual roots. Now Dark Green Religion by Bron Taylor has landed on my reading list. I’ll report back if I figure anything out.
Read More → Connect the DotsQuoted
I’m quoted in this article from the morning paper.
Read More → QuotedQuoted * 2
I have quotes in a couple recent press releases regarding the city’s reacquisition of the so-called LIFT parcel, which brings us back full circle.
Read More → Quoted * 2FOLC on WWOZ
WWOZ will be airing a “Street Talk” segment on the Lafitte Corridor greenway project today (Tues 1/12/10) at 2pm sharp. Listen on 90.7 FM in New Orleans or on the web at wwoz.org or just use the handy player on the FOLC website.
Read More → FOLC on WWOZ