This sculpture mysteriously appeared on the Lafitte Corridor last week, just in time for the Urban Pathways conference tour. I was surprised and touched. It’s…
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This sculpture mysteriously appeared on the Lafitte Corridor last week, just in time for the Urban Pathways conference tour. I was surprised and touched. It’s…
New Orleans Saints Fans High-Five Each Other by Aisha Turner/PBS Newshour / CC BY-NC 2.0 Today I’m offering a rare guest post by my friend…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_b/ / CC BY 2.0 This passage in a news story caught my eye. Mary Rickard for Reuters: Along with a championship team, New Orleans…
A number of friends have remarked recently at how surprised they are to see me writing about sports, and about football in particular, since they…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/therefore/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Yes, that’s right, New Orleans is having an election tomorrow, right in the midst of Superbowl mania and Carnival madness.…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Yesterday everyone on campus was wearing black and gold — except for our administrative assistant. A Colts fan from way…
Just when I thought the whole sequence of events couldn’t get any stranger, in the midst of unpacking I was summoned via text message to…
Yesterday afternoon I stopped by the playground on the Jeff Davis neutral ground with my daughter. We approached Serpent Mound at the same time as…
If I haven’t written here as much lately, perhaps it’s because I feel constrained from public discussion of many of the topics which are currently…
There was a little frost outside this morning, but our cold snap seems to be coming to an end. The morning bike ride was chilly…
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…
By strange coincidence, I found myself watching The Big Chill Friday night. It’s one of those super-famous movies that I’ve just somehow never seen. Alas,…
We are experiencing the coldest damn weather since we moved here to New Orleans ten years ago. In fact it may break records going back…
I wasn’t feeling quite right. When Xy offered to take our daughter with her on a shopping expedition I assented. It was just starting to…
Overnight New Orleans got pounded by heavy, heavy rain for several hours. Also some serious gusts. We lost power for a while during the night…
We’re having our house tented for fumigation to kill off some drywood termites. It’s kind of a pain, because we have to relocate three cats,…
I was listening to WWL and WBOK yesterday. These two talk-radio stations could not be more different in so many ways. And yet the theme…
I got a call from L— H— this morning. At least I think it was L— H—. In any event it was a man claiming…
Here’s something I observed a few weeks ago, but am only finding time to write about now. On Monday, October 26, as I took my…
Ignorant Filthy Rats
Published by Editor B on Monday, 15 February 2010BanksyBroomRatA by Infrogmation of New Orleans / CC BY-SA 2.0 Carnival and preparations for Mardi Gras are keeping me too busy to write, so instead…