Day 641: “It’s Not Our Fault”
Posted on May 31, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, culture-society-history, government, new orleans, recovery | 9 Comments
No, Mayor Ray Nagin, it’s not our fault the federal government completely abandoned strengthening our levees prior to Hurricane Katrina and that the State of Louisiana has bigger shrimp to fry than New Orleans. It is also not our fault that the Bush administration continues to ignore our pleas for rebuilding support and makes […]
Read More..>>Day 640: Nagin’s State Of The City Address
Posted on May 30, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, government, new orleans, recovery | Leave a Comment
Not wanting to give myself a headache on top of the existing one, I declined showing up at the D-Day Museum this evening for Mayor Ray Nagin’s State Of The City address, completely last-minute and his first since right after the flood.
No, Mark Folse, you will not be stuck with the mere account of the […]
Day 638: One Way To Take Care Of Migraines
Posted on May 28, 2007 - Filed Under family & friends, government | 18 Comments
Give yourself a permanent one.
While visiting family and friends up north this weekend, I slipped and fell (with a momentary, split-second blackout) at a friend’s housewarming party. Unfortunately, the last part of the fall involved the back of my head making strong contact with a wall and the subsequent raining of hot tea all […]
Day 636: “Oh Noes, That Sparrow’s A Terrist!”
Posted on May 26, 2007 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
Thanks, Schroeder, for the stirring prologue to Memorial Day, followed by this:
Related: Bush knows what he is, but what are you? - On War Funds, Democrats Saw No Option but to Cede Ground to Bush
As First Draft commenter, frenchdm, says, “Many Democrats in Congress proved today they stand for nothing other than getting reelected. […]
Posted on May 26, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, blurbs, city planning, new orleans, recovery | Leave a Comment
An example of the news I find when out of town: $3.5 million Katrina memorial proposed for New Orleans. “The [Unified New Orleans Plan] is making its way through city approval processes. While the memorial is a far lower priority than upgrading drainage and reconstructing neighborhoods during the next decade, it is still listed […]
Read More..>>Day 633: City Planning Commission Approves UNOP
Posted on May 23, 2007 - Filed Under city planning, government, new orleans, recovery | 3 Comments
Tut, tut, not so fast. All is not that easy in the city planning arena of the real K-Ville.
nola.com: As rebuilding of N.O. continues, recovery plan OK’d
No one on the commission or its staff expressed much enthusiasm for the plan, which was created by outside planners and consultants at a cost of several million dollars, and it is […]
Day 633: Big Easy Rollergirls News
Posted on May 23, 2007 - Filed Under big easy rollergirls, new orleans, pictures | 2 Comments
Pictures from the last bout of the first Big Easy Rollergirls season are here. Alas, Fortuna did not shine on New Orleans this past Saturday evening: we lost to the Memphis Roller Derby Allstars (thanks mostly to this little piece of supersonic) and Victoria Van Doom ended up in the ER with a torn meniscus. […]
Read More..>>Posted on May 22, 2007 - Filed Under blurbs, culture-society-history, movies/tv | Leave a Comment
“Nothing is purely indigenous, it’s all mixed up.” — from Mitar Moina (Clay Bird) a film, set in post-partition, pre-independence Bangladesh, about a family struggling to balance tradition, Islam and western influences. It reminds me of what the United States has yet to fully accept regarding its own mixed identity.
Read More..>>Day 632: K-Ville
Posted on May 22, 2007 - Filed Under movies/tv, new orleans | 5 Comments
Friend and VatulBlog commenter, Joel, asks, “I saw a preview on Fox last night for a new dramatic series called K-Ville, set in post-Katrina New Orleans. It looked — as far as I can tell — decent enough. Are they filming down there? Pouring some money into the local economy, I hope? And is there […]
Read More..>>Day 632: Funny Like A Big Stuffed Rodent, I Amuse You?
Posted on May 22, 2007 - Filed Under books, public domain | 3 Comments
Just in from MSH (and mostly for the enjoyment of Mr. Suds & Soliloquies and JTG):
Looks like Hamas is finished. They just crossed Disney.
Nobody messes with The Mouse and survives.
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