Day 795: A False Symbol Of …
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under culture-society-history, desi / india, government, louisiana, new orleans | Leave a Comment
Enough of the Halloween shenanigans (until later this evening), and onto a “serious” post.
In the wake of the phenomenon that is Supreme Being Wunderkind Governor Jindal, Vijay Prashad of Little India magazine continues to explore the relationship between ethnicity and political allegiance. We agree that congratulating a political candidate based on ethnicity is silly especially when you want the rest of your […]
Read More..>>Day 795: Bigfoot!
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under funny | Leave a Comment
Here!
I mean, here!
Day 795: Happy All-Hallow-Even
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under funny, pictures | 3 Comments
From your friendly neighborhood lion tamer.
Read More..>>Day 795: Schilling Says Goodbye To Red Sox
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under sports | Leave a Comment
And it sounds something like this.
Read More..>>Day 794: Bands I Saw At VoodooFest Friday
Posted on October 30, 2007 - Filed Under music, new orleans | 3 Comments
* Jose Conde Y Ola Fresca - Still waking up at that point, I spent a good while caffeinating so it’s anybody’s guess what I heard from this band in the Preservation Hall tent. A friend of a friend, who was in from Brazil, seemed to enjoy this show, so it must have been good. Ben […]
Read More..>>Day 794: Homeowners Insurance - New Orleans vs. Southern California
Posted on October 30, 2007 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, federal flood, new orleans, recovery | 3 Comments
Today’s USAToday analyzes New Orleans’s sluggish housing market and points out the exponential increase in local homeowners’ insurance following Katrina and The Flood.
For a $175,000 home, a buyer will have to shell out $4,200 to $4,800 a year for insurance, says Lisa Heindel, an agent at Latter & Blum Realtors. Before the hurricane, the cost was about $1,200 […]
Read More..>>Posted on October 29, 2007 - Filed Under blurbs, football, wisconsin | 1 Comment
OHMYGOD I CAN BREATHE NOW. That was the most amazing overtime in a while, when Brett threw an 82-yard touchdown pass to Greg Jennings right out the gate. The James Jones touchdown run at the end of the first quarter was great, but this was way too exciting and way too hard on my cardiac […]
Read More..>>Day 793: Salon.com On The “Treme 2″
Posted on October 29, 2007 - Filed Under crime, music, new orleans | 2 Comments
Edit: Mark this post. I have more coming up on how City Council is seriously considering an increase in the permit fee for city-wide Carnival parades starting the 2009 season and are trying to add a fee for each float (tandems would count as two separate floats). Why are we penalized for being […]
Read More..>>Day 793: Move Over, Chicxulub
Posted on October 29, 2007 - Filed Under desi / india, geology | Leave a Comment
The K-T spotlight is on Rajahmundry and, oddly enough, the evidence comes from invertebrate paleontology.
Geological Society of America: Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India?
A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. The eruptions, which created the gigantic Deccan Traps lava […]
Day 793: Quoted In WaPo Article On Jindal
Posted on October 29, 2007 - Filed Under desi / india, government, louisiana | 6 Comments
The Sunday Washington Post A Section carries an article about the Jindal election and various Indian-American community views on it. Yours truly was interviewed and quoted in the article. Deepa Iyer and I had talked a LOT about Jindal’s voting, post-Katrina record and the racial nature of Louisiana politics with the reporter and I wish those […]
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