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Zeitoun By David Eggers

July 21, 2009

A clip from the Salon interview below shows why you and I must read this book.  It’s not because Eggers is a good writer who edits the most evocative, funny, often mind-blowing Best American Non-Required Reading series.  He fully gets what happened to America in 2001 and 2005, how they are not disconnected and what [...]

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The Coliseum Theatre

June 18, 2009

Seems like a lifetime ago. And perhaps it was. My cousin Bina gets married this weekend. Last night, I scoured hard drives for pictures of us and came across a set from early 2005, when Bina and her husband-to-be Andy stayed with us over the Krewe du Vieux parade weekend.  I remember walking around the [...]

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Day 1280: Jindal Lied. What’s New?

February 27, 2009

But his camp admits it. So, there’s the pass to heaven. Jindal had described being in the office of Sheriff Harry Lee “during Katrina,” and hearing him yelling into the phone at a government bureaucrat who was refusing to let him send volunteer boats out to rescue stranded storm victims, because they didn’t have the [...]

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Day 1245: Pro-Life-Before-Birth

January 23, 2009

On a break from cutting costume parts at Ye Olde Krewe du Vieux/C.R.A.P.S. Sweatshoppe last evening, I skimmed the feedreader and came across this exchange between The Washington Independent’s David Weigel and a group of anti-abortion protestors at the recent instance of the annual Roe v. Wade rally on the National Mall.  Emphasis is mine. [...]

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Day 1240: The Lower Ninth Ward Today

January 18, 2009

Dear President Bush, A parting gift as you leave the White House: an image of New Orleans as it is today. This is where our complacency met your apathy, a deadly combination. Thanks for waking us up to the worst possible America. Sincerely, Maitri Tweet

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Day 1235: “Helicopter Drivers”

January 13, 2009

In yesterday’s post about The Beast’s fifty most loathsome people in America, I forgot to highlight a punishment the article proposed for our outgoing president: “Detained in formaldehyde-laced FEMA trailer without charges or counsel.” That’s also for recently taking credit for the amazing, self-directed response of the US Coast Guard immediately after the storm hit by saying, “Don’t tell [...]

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Day 1231: The Old Man And The Storm

January 9, 2009

The punchline first: Watch this film now. Most documentaries are such somber and sobering accounts of reality that I can’t bring myself to view them.  D has been trying to get me to watch The Dark Side and Lovesick near on a year now and I keep putting it off because I’m an internalizer.  How people and [...]

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Day 1149: It All Comes Back To Rocks

October 19, 2008

The Times-Picayune | The Rock That Ruined New Orleans Just over five years ago, a meteorite crashed through the ceiling of a home in Broadmoor, and since then everything has gone down the toilet. Yep, that’s it. That’s the cause of Katrina, the flood, FEMA, Ray Nagin and everything else that’s happened since then, down [...]

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Day 1098: Remember

August 29, 2008

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Day 1091: The Night Before Rising Tide

August 22, 2008

Although I want to shut it off and fall asleep on my keyboard, Rebirth Brass Band’s upbeat ”Four Leaf Clover” is playing in the background.  I am exhausted from this week, but it’s time to gear up for this weekend’s Rising Tide conference.  Go over to VirgoTex‘s and read why what happened here three years ago still [...]

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