April 2007

Day 605: Jazzfest Work Day

April 25, 2007

My work team spent yesterday at the Fairgrounds as Jazzfest setup volunteers. I worked on stencilling, decals, maps and a lot of hauling and heavy-duty stapling. So, when you’re looking at the large maps, information posters and yellow and black signs all over Fess, think of me and the fact that I almost sacrificed my [...]

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Day 603: Back From The Great Sunny North

April 23, 2007

After a weekend of university-related work and unseasonably great weather in Madison, WI, I have this to report: 1. Rocks are my passion. Their beauty never fails to appeal to the instinct and intellect. *wistful sigh* 2. To help atone for my absence at last night’s Big Easy Rollergirls championship (Ray was sick and also [...]

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Day 598: New New Orleans Levee

April 18, 2007

The paper version of Volume 1, Issue 5 of New Orleans’s own Onion, The New Orleans Levee, finally got to my hands! This edition is a laugh a page all the way from Trash bins ‘a bitch’ in Quarter to Great Moments in New Orleans History (1803: A Year of Change – and the Accidental Invention of [...]

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Day 598: Information Into Action

April 18, 2007

Athenae of First Draft gets the It’s More Than Just Writing And Arguing Online thing. One of the goals is translating info-communication skills into physical and technological action, and helping LOTS of others without these tools do the same. We New Orleanians really need to take informed citizenry to the next level. If you want to experience firsthand what [...]

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Day 597: French Quarter Festival 2007

April 17, 2007

French Quarter Festival pictures are here; still awaiting those from my analog camera. * Kermit’s wedding and show were great. * Amanda’s CD release party at Carrollton Station was a lot of fun. Her debut album got a nice small review from Keith Spera of the T-P; Caleb Guillote (of Deadeye Dick) and Craig Caliva [...]

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Day 597: Gun Chatter

April 17, 2007

Almost everyone is talking about gun control in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings. Ok, guns don’t kill people, people kill people. In that case, we’ve established that people cannot be trusted to use weapons properly and take away from them what could, in an instant, cause mass carnage, right? Not quite. The Second [...]

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Day 597: So Easy To Take Lives

April 17, 2007

Thoughts and tears go out to the families of everyone killed or injured in yesterday’s horrible shootings at Virginia Tech. May they go from the darkness to the light. The deaths that hit closest to home are those of Drs. G. V. Loganathan and Liviu Lebrescu. The professors of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Science & Mechanics, [...]

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Day 596: Back From The Land Of First Draft

April 16, 2007

And, boy, does the oak pollen in this town make me want to crawl into a Benadryl-filled plastic bubble. On 3000-sneeze days like this, I wish my mother had raised me in a barn instead of hosing our house down with Lysol everyday (OCD, OCD!). Work in Houston was alright and French Quarter Festival was [...]

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Day 587: First Draft Guestblogging

April 7, 2007

Today’s D’s birthday and a few friends are descending on NOLA to help him celebrate a very special number. This weekend promises to be amusing – Fahy’s and ensuing hilarity – and heartbreaking. One friend hasn’t visited for three years and Sunday will involve yet another misery tour when I drive through Broadmoor, the Lower [...]

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Day 586: Left Far Behind

April 6, 2007

One of the key points of yesterday’s post was the importance of education in the feasible development of an area, a concept thoroughly underinvestigated in our city’s economic recovery plan. In The End Of Learning, GB references an article called Playing School In Katrina’s Wake: One student, a senior at Douglass, jerked her head up at this [...]

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