Haven’t had much chance to read blogs lately, but I went over to Cliff’s Crib Saturday night and what I read there about his weekends post-Katrina really knocked me for a loop.
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Haven’t had much chance to read blogs lately, but I went over to Cliff’s Crib Saturday night and what I read there about his weekends post-Katrina really knocked me for a loop.
I came outside today to find Johnny and some other kids throwing rocks at our next door neighbor’s house. Our next door neighbor (Craig) decided…
An ad just played on TV for an upcoming news report on the decline of baseball as a popular sport amongst African-Americans. Just a couple…
I’ve never noticed lovebugs around New Orleans before, though they’re supposed to be common all along the Gulf Coast during certain times of the year.…
A mysterious fungus sprung up in one of our flowerpots this weekend. It looked creepy and beautiful and smelled terrible. What could it be? Turns…
The “Eat-Well Food Mart” has been under construction at the corner of Canal and Broad for some months. Google knows nothing about “Eat-Well Food Mart”…
It was a beautiful day, so we packed some picnic snacks, loaded up the baby stroller, gathered up some neighbor kids and headed down to…
Everybody’s favorite passionately profane New Orleans überpatriot blogger Ashley Morris has passed on. I really don’t know anything about the circumstances of his death except…
A neighbor alerted me to a recycling survey, from the city’s Dept. of Sanitation, on the department’s website (halfway down the page). www.cityofno.com/Portals/Sanitation/portal.aspx It has…
Keep N It Real Social & Pleasure Club was in our neighborhood today. It ended just two blocks from our house. Actually we missed the…
We took our first stroll around the block yesterday. Many of the sidewalks are impassable, so we had to push the stroller in the street.…
I notice I haven’t been writing about issues in the recovery of New Orleans nearly as much lately. That’s because my primary mission here is…
I salute the people of Louisiana who made it to the polls Saturday. Obama beat Clinton by a big margin; Huckabee beat McCain. Locally, a…
Today is Mardi Gras, the most wonderful day of the year. Ideally I’d be getting up at the crack of dawn, donning a wild costume,…
Well, we did it. For a while I didn’t think we would be able to pull it off. First there was my sprained ankle. Then…
Doesn’t it seem ridiculous that our collective mood should rise and fall based on what this guy says in his speech? Tonight, the armies of…
Sawing into the baby in this king cake made me feel kind of like Solomon Gone Mad. Since the baby isn’t actually contained in my…
This story in the paper made me feel ever-so-slightly vindicated about our decision to renovate. A new study of home prices around the New Orleans…
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Published by Editor B on Wednesday, 9 April 2008Speaking of Ashley Morris, some random guy left the following comment on my blog: Ilove NO and would like to live there someday but the…