People of New Orleans! In six months we’ll mark the ten year anniversary of the flooding of our city. Already the media machinery is gearing…
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I was alarmed to see this report because the location is not far from our house, but the details are kind of interesting. Armed Robbery,…
This sign is on a house on Canal Street. I’m not sure but I strongly suspect this may have been placed by a guy calling…
This caught my eye on the the front page of today’s Times-Picayune: “It always amazed me that you had these two universities that were right…
As previously mentioned, HBO’s Treme is recreating the 2007 March for Survival. I’m trying to “drum up” some support for recreating the Mid-City contingent. In…
This photo recently became my most “favorited” on Flickr. With 26 favorites it has surpassed Big Cloud, which is gratifying because I think this is a much more interesting shot.
I took this one on October 13, 2006 in Gentilly, on Mirabeau Avenue near the London Avenue Canal breach. In the background you can see vacant flooded homes becoming overgrown with vegetation. You can even see some waterlines on the sign itself.
Need I say more? I think the power of this photo is that it tells a story all on its own. You don’t really need any of my explanations.
This is my favorite coffee cup.
I like the neoclassical architectural detail, which of course can still be seen at 3625 Canal Street.
I believe Citywide Mortgage is defunct. Out of idle curiosity, I did a quick net search while drinking my coffee this morning and turned up the following…
Our friend James is kind of like the brother I never had. We’ve even been known to quarrel from time to time. I remember some…
I’m going to be making a presentation to a special interest group at the American Educational Research Association’s upcoming conference. My topic? Blogging in post-Katrina…
We went looking for this grave after seeing a request on Find a Grave. After some help from “Big Bad John” at the cemetery office,…
I’ve seen this guy around town for years. He’s made a cart out of two bicycles for hauling junk around. For some reason whenever I…
I’m still in touch with a number of friends back in Indiana. Last week I heard some sad news from one of these friends: His…
Over the long weekend I was privileged to observe and even participate in some bizarre graveyard rituals to ensure a victorious season for the New…
There’s something I wanted to write at the first anniversary of Katrina, but I never did. I thought about it again at the second anniversary,…
I look to houses and buildings for signs of our progress — or lack of it. People are more important than buildings, of course, but…
I’m sure my parents will be proud to know I’m now the number one result for mandatory ejaculation on Google. Or rather, one of my…
The mayor came to our campus yesterday to deliver a speech with the theme “Eyes Wide Open.” Strangely enough, few of my co-workers seemed to be aware of this, but I got an invite from the mayor’s office via e-mail. By another strange coincidence, I’d forgotten all about it until my memory was jogged during a meeting with Councilmember Kristin Palmer at City Hall about the Lafitte Corridor greenway project. I rode back to campus and got there in time to catch the speech.
The University Center ballroom was packed. Music was playing, which I thought was prerecorded until I noticed a number of men in suits on microphones at the front of the room — the Zion Harmonizers. Father Tony gave the invocation and Dr. Francis introduced the mayor.
For me, it was pretty cool to see all these guys on the same stage in such a familiar setting. It was cool to see the City’s seal on front of the podium and the University’s seal in back. Also, I’d never heard Mitch Landrieu speak before, and I’ve got to say he’s pretty good at it.
I’ve made it a point not to offer my own analysis of local politics here recently, and I think I’ll stick to that policy. However, I’d be curious to know what others might think. Here’s the text of the speech.
Sometime a few months ago this slipped past me: I’ve now spent a quarter of my life in the city of New Orleans, a quarter…
Despite the rain, hundreds of people turned out for the protest yesterday, so many I couldn’t fit them all even in this wide panoramic shot.…