I was born around the time of the very first Superbowl, and my parents named me after a star player on the Green Bay Packers.…
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I was born around the time of the very first Superbowl, and my parents named me after a star player on the Green Bay Packers.…
It is truly humbling to serve as a vessel for community outrage. The speech I gave Thursday — that wasn’t me. That was y’all. I…
What with all the foofaraw trying to get back on the internet and dealing with spambots and the parental visitation and bloody murder and the…
A pair of photos by yours truly are featured on the op-ed page of the Times-Picayune today. The pictures depict a before and after scene…
My parents came to New Orleans Monday, but I didn’t see them for a while. They spent the week at Camp Restore, helping to gut…
I just learned that tomorrow will be my co-worker Althea’s last day here at the University. Althea has been with the University for many years.…
I seem to have been consigned to the deepest circle of Internet Hell. Pity me.
Actually, I am typing this post in my own home. I’ve got internet on a computer here for the first time in over 15 months.
And yet I’m not happy. And therein lies a convoluted tale of woe.
One year ago today, we moved back into our home. I’ve been thinking about that time quite a bit recently, in part because I’m trying…
Xy picked up this bust at a yard sale around the corner a couple years ago. Recently one of our feline boarders knocked it off…
Good news: A recent survey indicates three-quarters of the greater New Orleans population has returned. Bad news: The same survey says the city itself (Orleans…
3319-21 Iberville Street [map] This building has been proposed for demolition by FEMA. Since it’s in a historic district (Mid-City, my neighborhood) FEMA is “requesting…
Yesterday a store in the Carrollton Shopping Center caught fire. My office is across the street. My co-worker Janice noticed the smoke first, but thought…
Spotted this morning on the way to work on the Jeff Davis neutral ground: It’s a pitcher full of water suspended above a map of…
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to present a temporary art installation which I like to call “A Tribute to America.” On trash day, if we’re…
I took two weeks off. During that time I barely left Orleans Parish, except for a couple errands. I rode my bike into Metairie via…
I recently learned that the library here at the University has a stockpile of a few hundred educational filmstrips from the 50s and 60s. They’re…
I am happy to announce that our house is finally secure for the first time in many months. Our four downstairs doors had no locks.…
Taisha is a young girl who lives across the street from us. She and her mother moved in a few weeks ago. Before that she…