I’m pained by what I read on a couple local blogs this morning. Jim Louis writes: I have been more or less geographically rejected by…
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I’m pained by what I read on a couple local blogs this morning. Jim Louis writes: I have been more or less geographically rejected by…
Google Maps recently added two zoom levels to their satellite views, and made other improvements that make it even more fun to fool around with.…
We have neighbors again! We’ve been the only people living for blocks in any direction, but now there are some Mexican guys living in the…
Goodbye 2005. The general consensus here in New Orleans seems to be: We’re glad to see this one go. I used to think of the…
Looking around our immediate neighborhood, I’d have to say our house is just about the only one ready for re-occupation. Mainly that’s because of the…
Been too busy and too preoccupied to post, so here’s a random grab-bag update. My apologies if this seems somewhat haphazard or disjointed. We continue…
There’s a new report on nola.com from the City of New Orleans, breaking down the status of sections of the city by ZIP code. My…
I am in Mid-City as I write this. We took the Crescent City Connection from Algiers about 7:30 this morning. We got across the river…
Home… / Ben Record / CC BY-SA 2.0 Dental Ben has posted a set of pix taken in Mid-City (my neighborhood in New Orleans) over…
I know school’s back in session, cuz I can hear the Warren Easton High School Marching Band. Right now they’re directly in front of our…
I went to the Farmers’ Market in Mid-City yesterday and picked up some cilantro pesto for dinner. It was good (but pricey at $5.50). I…
When Xy & I bought our house in Mid-City, we immediately joined the Mid-City Neighborhood Organization out of general principle. I like the idea of…
The party was fun. We actually drained the keg, which made me happy. PJ & Gina showed up with instruments and jammed in the living…
I haven’t been this deaf on New Year’s Day since the last time I saw the Walking Ruins.
I walked to work this morning because my bike had a flat; the tube ripped at the place where you attach the pump (what do…
A co-worker just informed me that there was a murder last night, just four blocks from our house.
Signs of the impending holiday in our neighborhood… It’s a little hard to read because of the burglar bars, but the spray-painted message lists the…
One of our exterior doors fell apart earlier this year. It had been deteriorating for a while, and finally I dismantled it. Fortunately it doesn’t…
Xy and I were at Tyler’s for beer and 10 cent oysters — typical Monday night. We met an old-time local guy who had last…
We’re under a hurricane storm warning now. Xy and I took a walk around the neighborhood, watched people boarding up their windows, stopped in for…