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Parades and Second-Line Shootings

May 13, 2013
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This Mother’s Day weekend, we attended our first Art Car Parade since moving to Houston. It is a once-a-year welcome addition of color, music and a carnival-like atmosphere to the otherwise sterile streets of this city. Tame as the parade was parade watchers’ reaction to a pretty funky spectacle was compared with the level of [...]

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Rocks And Mardi Gras

February 1, 2013
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“Measure the strike and dip on this baby!” Rocks and Mardi Gras is something I’ve often considered renaming the blog. That or Rocks On The Rocks. You know, so I can make dumb Carnival time jokes like the one above. Tweet

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6000-Year-Old Texas

January 22, 2013

Alas, the horrible creationist Louisiana Science & Education Act (SB70) wasn’t repealed, but the Orleans Parish School Board doesn’t want anything to do with it. On December 18, 2012, the board voted unanimously  to prohibit the use of any textbooks that include revisionist history (as in Texas) or creationism, including intelligent design (ID). They also [...]

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Krewe du Vieux 2013

January 21, 2013
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The most exciting aspect of walking in New Orleans’s Krewe du Vieux parade every year is not dressing up, throwing goodies to miles and miles of crowd, the loudness, color and flash of everything or even ending the night jamming to the best bands in the city who gather together to play just for us. [...]

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The Fall 2012 Check-In: Mentoring, Future of Geoscience, Being Crafty

October 5, 2012
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I was going to start this post with “Been busy doing a lot lately,” but when am I not Busy Doing A Lot Lately? As I go from assignment to task to project to meeting, the blog comes to mind and the notion with it to record. Instead of multiple little posts, here is much [...]

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Superdome On A Wednesday Morning

September 19, 2012

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Katrina +7, The More Things Change Edition

August 29, 2012
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August 29th, 2005 – In Houston, awaiting the Mayor Nagin “all clear” to return. Hoping for very little wind damage to home and the rig; reports of levees and pumps failing all over the city. August 29th, 2012 – In Houston, awaiting the Mayor Landrieu “all clear” to head in for the long weekend. Hoping [...]

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We Deserve The Newspaper We Get

June 13, 2012

Feel my blinding anger at Brett Anderson being let go from The Times-Picayune when braying donkeys continue to pass for food writers and collect paychecks elsewhere. Because New Orleans isn’t a fraking mecca of food or anything. *** Three articles to consider. Put them together and draw your own conclusions. 1) The Gambit: After the [...]

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