Day 156: Countdown To Krewe Du Vieux Carré!
Posted on January 31, 2006 - Filed Under mardi gras, new orleans | 5 Comments
10 days ’til we hit the streets of New Orleans. Please note the new route below and plan accordingly. See you there!
Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Read More..>>Day 155: “… People In That Part Of The World …”
Posted on January 30, 2006 - Filed Under government, katrina, new orleans | Leave a Comment
A sizeable chunk of my colleagues and friends moved back to New Orleans this past weekend and resume work there as we speak. I’m happy for them, especially the reunited families - they slept under the same roof again after five long months. Others reconnect with their neighbors, friends, communities and the city […]
Read More..>>Day 152: Science vs. Territoriality
Posted on January 27, 2006 - Filed Under desi / india, environment, katrina, new orleans, science & technology | 4 Comments
In the current discussion and debate over coastal control in Lousiana, it is educational to look at analogues. The issue in the American Gulf Coast boils down to property/business rights in opposition to the environmental arguments for the preservation of coastal marshland as storm buffers. In the case of southeast Asian nations that […]
Read More..>>Day 150: What’s A Ninth Ward?; Pictures From The Pemberton
Posted on January 25, 2006 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans, pictures | 6 Comments
“And the Lord said unto Noah, come thou and all thy house into the ark … And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.” — Genesis 7:1-24
Reminds me of … me in a way, dry in txyankee’s home for a hundred and fifty days now, in the company of another human, […]
Day 148: Another Day, Another Context
Posted on January 23, 2006 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans | 1 Comment
Alright, blogland, help me out here. In my last post, I offered that Ray Nagin, mayor of NO, swallowed one foot speaking from le pulpit du cocoa and shot himself in the other by retracting his statements. Now, Nagin tells a Lakeview audience that he will oppose the four-month moratorium on rebuilding as […]
Read More..>>Day 147: One For The Record
Posted on January 21, 2006 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans | 4 Comments
What makes New Orleans different from any other city in the United States? We’ve mentioned music, food, a mixed bag of culture and heritage, poverty and wealth side by side, and an overall easygoing way of life which treads a very fine line between relaxed and apathetic. However, in the last week, on […]
Read More..>>Day 142: Nagin Keeps It Chocolate - Update
Posted on January 17, 2006 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans | 12 Comments
A part of me doesn’t want to promote this as there are far more important issues facing New Orleans besides Nagin’s misguided dessert references, but the graphic (and message) involved is too priceless to pass up:
www.imnotchocolate.com
Now, will everyone stop talking about chocolate before I’m forced to make a Chocolate Bar run?
More: I’m watching the news […]
Day 142: Nagin Keeps It Real
Posted on January 17, 2006 - Filed Under katrina, new orleans | 6 Comments
Close friend and VatulBlog reader, Joel, remarks: “Your mayor claims that soon New Orleans will be ‘a chocolate city’ again. Don’t get me wrong; that sounds delicious, but from a political standpoint, should he really be spouting so graphically and metaphorically to the national press, representing humans with flavors? Seems a bit odd […]
Read More..>>Day 141: Dream Of A Better New Orleans
Posted on January 16, 2006 - Filed Under culture-society-history, katrina, new orleans | 1 Comment
One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land …
I have a dream today … This is […]
Day 137: Depth Vs. Clarity
Posted on January 12, 2006 - Filed Under new orleans, science & technology | 4 Comments
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” - Nikola Tesla
Something to consider while conducting genetic engineering, space science and coastal sprawl and while … blogging.
On a related note, monetary constraints, i.e. budgets, have been known to encourage […]
