Day 397: O Isis Und Osiris!
Posted on September 29, 2006 - Filed Under city planning, funny, government, music, new orleans, recovery | 8 Comments
Bless German classics, Deutsche Grammophon and Karl Böhm - I’d forgotten how much I adore Die Zauberflöte and why it is my favorite opera of all time. Along with its great overture and arias (listen to Der Hölle Rache Kocht In Meinem Herzen and report back on the goosebumps), this final large production of Mozart’s […]
Read More..>>Day 396: Love This Life, Though You’ll Never Know Why
Posted on September 28, 2006 - Filed Under family & friends, general | Leave a Comment
Ever since Katrina, the death of D’s mother a few months after that, and now with my grandmother’s passing, I’ve pondered the utter lemon that is life followed by death. What do I mean? You’re born, you do so much, make somewhat of a difference in your life, touch the lives of […]
Read More..>>Day 396: Announcing The Second World eBook Fair
Posted on September 28, 2006 - Filed Under books, computing & internet, project gutenberg, public domain | Leave a Comment
Remember the 1st World eBook Fair from back in July? From July 4th to August 4, 2006, users downloaded their selections from 1/3 million free eBooks. Well, the second one is now here!
In the 90 days since The 1st World eBook Fair as many eBooks have been added as you can download from Google’s entire eBook collection first […]
Day 395: This Mortal Coil
Posted on September 27, 2006 - Filed Under desi / india, family & friends | 2 Comments
“A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.” - Thomas Mann
My father’s mother passed away in India last night and will be cremated early tomorrow morning. It hasn’t been a year since his little brother’s death, so I worry about my dad’s state of mind. Utterly useless to my family while in New Orleans, […]
Day 394: Ahem, Elections This Weekend!
Posted on September 26, 2006 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, football, government, katrina, new orleans, pictures, recovery | 4 Comments
Forgive and celebrate with the Saints and their fans for they are justified, but the volume of heated conversation generated by football (especially the LSU and Tulane variety), as opposed to that on reconstruction and local government, makes me wonder about people’s inherent motivations. This is not to criticize the traffic garnered by sports, crime […]
Read More..>>Day 393: The Cradle Of Musical Culture
Posted on September 25, 2006 - Filed Under football, music, new orleans, recovery | 11 Comments
I lied, for I’ve made the time to watch the Saints on TV … in my black tank top with the gold fleur de lis on it. The sniffles began when The Goo Goo Dolls made a passionate case for New Orleans on WDSU, and they grew into all out tears when Irma Thomas sang […]
Read More..>>Day 393: My Mother, The Saints’ Empathizer
Posted on September 25, 2006 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, family & friends, football, katrina, new orleans, pictures, recovery | 1 Comment
If you haven’t noticed, Saints fans have been tailgating downtown since 8am today - seriously, it’s like Mardi Gras day or something and I’m the only one wearing hot pink.
Quite frankly, I don’t have the time to be excited for the Saints. Nor was any found to watch the Packers beat Detroit this past weekend, […]
Day 390: Fish Heads, Fish Heads …
Posted on September 22, 2006 - Filed Under food & drink, katrina, new orleans, pictures, wisconsin | 4 Comments
According to Abdul and D, this is where Nadia’s in Madison, WI used to get some of their fish:
921 S. Dupre, New Orleans, LA
Read More..>>Posted on September 22, 2006 - Filed Under blurbs, books, new orleans | Leave a Comment
The joys of office plumbing and how typically New Orleanian the whole thing is - Toilet #1 has a broken flush. Toilet #2 perpetually flushes, wasting enough water to bathe a small nation. Toilet #3 was just right, until this floor’s water pressure plummeted … again. Blackilocks here is not happy. This reminds me to purchase The […]
Read More..>>Day 390: Do The Tree Shuffle
Posted on September 22, 2006 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, computing & internet, culture-society-history, new orleans, recovery | 4 Comments
The Picornaviridae have been conquered and fast internet access is (miraculously) once again mine. Let the backlog of VatulBlog posts flow. *insert mental image of me in a one-person second line down Magazine St. and attendant trumpet blares and drum beating here*
But first, let me address two items from today’s T-P, which when put together puzzle […]
