Day 669: Where Crime Becomes A Loop
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, crime, government, new orleans | 5 Comments
Rising Tide and the dominoes falling with respect to the Public Schools administration have me happy, but for every step we go forward, New Orleans seems destined to move a large step backwards in the marathon towards Functional City Status. This latest setback has me in tears because, despite the glaring beacon that it […]
Read More..>>Day 669: Venice Or New Orleans? You Decide.
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under culture-society-history, global, mardi gras, new orleans, pictures | 5 Comments
Here is a picture I recently took. Without clicking on it (as it leads back to my tag-heavy Flickr site where you will find the answer), tell me whether it was taken in Venice or New Orleans, and why. Soon enough, I will post something about the coincidence of port cities, Catholicism, cultural heterogeneity, the […]
Read More..>>Day 669: Best Product Name Ever
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under funny | 1 Comment
Alas, it has been recalled.
… Veggie Booty snack food products are being recalled by the manufacturer after the federal Food and Drug Administration warned consumers Thursday not to eat the treats because of the possibility of [salmonella] contamination.
Thanks to this article, my brain cannot stop coming up with things like Zucchini In My Booty, Turnip […]
Day 668: Announcing Rising Tide 2
Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under new orleans, recovery, rising tide conference | 4 Comments
It’s time for the tide to rise once again! The Rising Tide conference will be held this year on Saturday, August 25, 2007 at the New Orleans Yacht Club. Those of you who attended last year’s gathering were part of a real-life demonstration against the conditions that almost destroyed this city. We came together to […]
Read More..>>Day 668: NOLA Recycling Event July 28th
Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under new orleans, recovery | Leave a Comment
It’s not an event, wherein hors d’oeuvres and cocktails are served, but an opportunity to get rid of your recyclables. Start saving up for July 28th Recycle Day!
The Jefferson Parish Department of Environmental Affairs, the New Orleans Sanitation Department, and the Recycling Foundation, Inc., of Baton Rouge will hold an area-wide recycling drop-off day on Saturday, […]
Day 666: Irish Channel “Silence Is Violence” Walk
Posted on June 26, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, crime, new orleans | 2 Comments
This coming Thursday night, June 28th, “Silence is Violence” is sponsoring a City Walk through the Irish Channel. The walk will start at 7pm sharp and start at Sophie’s Ice Cream parlor, 1912 Magazine St. It will end at Rue de la Course Coffeehouse, 3321 Magazine St.
Transportation will be provided back to Sophie’s between 8 […]
Day 666: Apocalypse Yesterday
Posted on June 26, 2007 - Filed Under movies/tv | 3 Comments
Notice it’s been 666 days since Katrina made landfall and the levees broke? In our upside-down world, perhaps this is the day things start to look up for New Orleans. Or when Keanu Reeves falls out of the sky and buys a house in the French Quarter.
Speaking of movies, here are some I’ve […]
Day 665: Blogging Out Loud
Posted on June 25, 2007 - Filed Under citizen journalism, computing & internet, new orleans, project gutenberg, science & technology | 20 Comments
Like Loki, I suffer from a bit of blog burn-out and have considered simply shutting VatulBlog down and restarting another space dedicated to Project Gutenberg, geophysics and other assorted geekiness. No, no, I’m not turning off the blog and the following tells you why.
The conversations here have been severely lacking since last fall really, and often it’s just […]
Day 664: A New New Orleans Anthem
Posted on June 24, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, music, new orleans, recovery | 2 Comments
Most of you already know that Rage Against The Machine will headline Voodoofest 2007, along with Smashing Mumkins, I mean, Pumpkins, Wilco, Sinead O’Connor and a host of other big names. I’ve decided to write Zack de la Rocha a letter asking him to create us a New Orleans anthem, what with our own […]
Read More..>>Day 664: Some Reassurance
Posted on June 24, 2007 - Filed Under family & friends, general | 6 Comments
This post is a bit of navel-gazing that has nothing to do with New Orleans, politics, geoscience, copyright issues or travel. Ever since VatulBlog went from being a simple stump in my portion of electronic acreage to an über-public space, I’ve thought about starting another blog, a more personal one under an anonymous name […]
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