May 2007

Day 631: New Orleans Criminal Injustice System

May 21, 2007

After work today, I walked into an arrest in progress: a young man (18 years old, at most) was handcuffed and on his knees on the street right in front of Singha Thai while our company’s traffic cop called the arrest into HQ. What happened to cause this situation wasn’t apparent, but as the scene trailed [...]

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Day 631: Get HST In This Picture

May 21, 2007

… and I’d get multiple copies blown up and hung right over my computers. You know, for inspiration and whatnot. Tweet

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May 20, 2007

I LOVE Brett Favre. “I just didn’t want to come [to minicamp], to be honest with you. I wish I could tell you something different to sell papers or make people watch your TV programs, but they are kind of boring. I didn’t want to come and just sit around watching, but I know that [...]

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Day 630: No Joke To New Orleans

May 20, 2007

This gentleman in Southbend, Indiana has a quirky way of opining, but he gets it. Funny thing is it’s no joke to New Orleans The national news media don’t focus much on New Orleans now, not a year and nine months after Katrina. There are other more important stories. Will Paris Hilton go to jail? [...]

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Day 629: The Melanin Makes Me Exotic

May 19, 2007

This is for the two jerks who mashed up against SD and me at The Spotted Cat last night, proceeded to mack on us with really bad Pepe LePew / Indo-Arab accents and asked us where in the world we are from. Uhhh, San Francisco and the Lower Garden District? I bet I can tell [...]

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Day 629: Big Easy Rollergirls Season Ender Tonight!

May 19, 2007

Come out and show those Memphis Roller Derby Allstars who does the blues best! Let’s make the walls of Mardi Gras World quiver with our roars! Also, WDSU’s Roop Raj interviews Scabigail and (the nicely-recovering) Vandal O’Riley. VIDEO Tweet

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Day 628: Spotlight On Broadmoor

May 18, 2007

Broadmoor, its neighborhood association president, LaToya Cantrell, and Andrew H. Wilson Elementary School were featured on NPR’s All Things Considered last evening, the third in a three-part series on New Orleans schools. Due to 20 months of abject neglect and vandalism, Andrew Wilson sits empty while Recovery School District officials cite the lack of classroom [...]

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Day 627: GAO Says Pumps Contract Handled Properly – Yeah Uh Huh

May 17, 2007

And I have tons of marshland to sell you with large bridges that go over them. Mary Landrieu: GAO found pumps along New Orleans canals were rushed, but handled properly An investigation by the Government Accountability Office found no evidence of fraud or improper influence in the pump project, handled by the Army Corps of [...]

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Day 627: Of Termites And Hurricanes

May 17, 2007

Harry Shearer concludes his latest dispatch from New Orleans with: It was an amazing springtime in New Orleans; at one of my last dinners in town, the Formosan termites finally started swarming around the streetlights just outside the window, and, when I got home, the dreaded phrase “first named storm” was all over the local [...]

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