Humid Beings

Perceptions

NPR has a nifty list comparing what parents worry about versus what they should worry about.  I wonder what the lists would look like comparing what Americans in general worry about versus what they should worry about.  Here’s my prediction: 1. Terrorist attack 2. Gasoline pricess 3. Dropped cellphone calls…

Corrupt & Crazy: A Planetary Phenomenom, pt 3

As always, if anyone has juicier links, send them along.  I see posts in this series as forever unfinished. Delaware: This guy does a decent job at describing some unsavory Delaware history.  And this. District of Columbia: I’m for D.C. statehood so I’m including it in my series.  Plus, it’s…

Blind Man With A Pistol?

Colorlines: The Los Angeles Times announced that it will publicize the ranked names of 6,000 Los Angeles public school teachers alongside their students’ test scores. According to the Times’ reporters Jason Felch and Jason Song, the project was done in the name of in the name of transparency. Felch and…

Corrupt & Crazy: A Planetary Phenomenon, pt 2

California: Besides being outright dysfunctional, California has been home to one of the more outlandish political corruption scandals in recent years, Duke Cunningham’s bribery scandal.  Lots of great pics here!  Funny Colbert video here! Colorado: Colorado seems not-so-bad and maybe even exemplary in terms of political corruption.  Still, scandals can…

Corrupt & Crazy: A Planetary Phenomenon, pt 1

I was born in Illinois and I’ll probably die in Louisiana, two states known for corrupt or just lousy political leadership.  I concede that politicians can be flashy with their loony ideas and corrupt practices in these states, but I contend loony ideas and corrupt practices observe no boundaries.  This…

Legacies

I just noticed that the little triangular wood doorstop the cleaning staff use to prop the men’s room bathroom door down the hall while the floor dries after being mopped has a name written on it in red permanent marker: Denise.  I’m pretty sure that doorstop used to belong (in…

PK5

We were supposed to have a garage sale on Sunday, August 28, 2005.   We had recently moved into a house we bought in Central City and had cleaned out our old Broadmoor apartment and planned to sell the odds and ends that didn’t make it to our new home.  It…

Ever Agile

h/t Rick Magazine Ick Magazine Tube of Glue

You Know You Like It

To Us It’s Just Home

Billy Sothern from his Salon review of Spike Lee’s new documentary about N.O.: The claim that it is “not easy” to live in New Orleans turns out to be one of the very few understatements in the documentary, which dwells at length on the many things that create this dis-ease…

Hello To All That

For a few years in college I partnered with a friend and we wrote a political column for the school newspaper.  We were the designated liberals–I think we saw our beat as Noam Chomsky and American imperialism.  I distinctly recall editorial meetings when we would shout and point shaky fingers…

A Knife, It Feels Like I Like It

Shocking, I know, but I came across a nearly incoherent quote from Sarah Palin this morning at Politico: “Nobody argues that that freedom of religion that the Muslims have to build that mosque somewhere,” Palin told Greta Van Susteren. For the mosque to be “so adamant about this exact location…

Sorry, Louise

Doug MacCash: Now a street scavenger’s lust for scrap metal is sending the sculpture away. The eyes will beam their light across Camp Street until after Labor Day, which falls just eight days after the fifth anniversary of the devastating storm and flood they helped us see past.

Monday Won’t Be So Bad

h/t Chet Hix

I Could Be Easily Amused

Magritte?

“Not While I’m Lucid.”

Go Figure, Favre Likes To Play Football

I guess I have a soft spot for Brett Favre (except when he plays the Saints).  It’s kind of weird how worked up people get over how conflicted Favre apparently is over whether to retire from professional football.  It’s sports, I know, I shouldn’t think it’s weird at all.  But…

Where’s Rick?

Here.

Cement Scribes

Now that we have a dog and I walk it everyday I’ve come to think that having a dog is good for community building.  I know the streets of our neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods far better and I’ve met many fellow citizens I probably would have never met.  It’s a…

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"Treme"

Not sure, I live in Central City where they're doing a lot of filming and everyone seems pretty happy about it. Nola.com had a story about another neighborhood that was more conflicted: http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/index.ssf/2010/03/treme_excitement_a_bit_too_muc.html

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"Fat Tuesday_5"

Thanks!

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"About Not Being From Here"

Hey, rhetticus, thanks for the comment. I think you make great points. Having grown up in the far north suburbs of Chicago, I know what you mean about being an outsider resident. Yeah, it's annoying. Now I'm certain I've been guilty of snubbing my nose at Jefferson Parish (well, at…