Humid Beings

Way to go, NBC. Don't even intro Kermit & Shorty when they appear w/ DMB #nolafail

Daaaamn right RT @sharney Jax square. Dave mathews playing. This music makes no fucking sense in nola #suckitnfl #whodat

RT @erster A previously sched #saints event has been canceled due to rain and common sense http://thelensnola.org/2010/09/09/burn-a-viking/

RT @NewsHour: UPDATE * * Developer of #Park51 Confirms with @NewsHour: They are NOT MOVING. http://to.pbs.org/bzRtoE

RT @craftylildevil: My quarterback and your quarterback, sittin' by the fire. My quarterback told your quarterback "I'm gonna make your  ...

S'allright. Gawd's puttin' the hurt on the NFL's party plans. RT @NOLArain I'm really really sorry guys. Not my fault. Blame #GOD

Commander's is festooned with black & gold balloons. 2 patrons are wearing #saints jerseys.

All right. Off to shul. Here's to a new year. L'shanah tovah u'mi zeh? 8-) #roshhashanahwhodat

@captainswallow The better to be inscribed in the Book of Life for another year. ;-)

@skooks So I guess that's a vote for a Commander's martini for you, then. ;-)

@alpelican Well, crud, lady. Can you get off it tomorrow? 2nd day of RH, ya know.

Wonder how many folks will be showing up for Rosh Hashanah services in black and gold?  #whodatjewishnewyear

Keeling. Must be rested for a morning at shul. 'Night, all.

.@nolanolegal Didn't go. I cooked up some leek fritters and poached salmon w/walnut sauce atop it and was bushed. My husband might have.

RT @fofalex Well said RT @JPosnanski: Some thoughts on the Reggie Bush Heisman. http://bit.ly/by9Gwf

RT @Clifton611: Gotta go home and watch the first ever Saints installment of America's Game on NFL Network. How did Brad Pitt get the na ...

RT @Noladishu: Fidel Castro to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews'; The Atlantic http://is.gd/f0GlL

.@giobigez Taking on Brett Farbissener with an alter kocker like Zeyde Porter? Oy vey iz mir! #lshanatovahnflstyle

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Okay, via @giobigez's Tumblr comes a little fun Yiddishe style at the fact that the kickoff to the NFL's regular season starts on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. I give you his roster changes in honor of the holiday:QB: Jew Brees (alt. Drew Bris) RB: Reggie Borscht RB: Pierre…

All right, off to conk out. Hope I don't miss the bed.

@brianpmoore Yeah, I've had the He'Brew, and I think the name and the concept are better than the beer

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It's stuff like this cropping up in print media that makes me think it will die hard...Page A-6 of today's paper caught my son's attention. It accompanies David Hammer's Times-Picayune article on the six decisions BP made that contributed to the blowout in the Gulf:But the flip side of the…

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The books are piling up. There's dead blooms on my floors that were tracked in from us walking through our neighbors' crape myrtle detritus. Must. Sweep up. Pet hair.And, in the middle of all this, we have an empty fishbowl.Rising Tide V was great. I always love helping plan it…

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On the way back home from dinner on Sunday, after we'd attended the interfaith service commemorating the 8/29/05 anniversary, the little guy piped up from the backseat."Mom, God didn't keep the promise that was made. New Orleans flooded. God said there was never going to be another flood like that…

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Our Day of Remembrance

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Judging from the pictures and testimonies in NOLAFemmes excellent Katrina Photo Project, recovery from a trauma such as the destruction of the levees is slow in coming and still hard to bear, the scars on our homes hinting at the ones we carry with us every second. The big gestures,…

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I wasn't there. I was up north, where we lived at the time...but I knew how serious it was when I called friends who normally don't leave and they were on the road or preparing for it. It was going to be bad...and it was worse, in many ways, than…

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I've got food on the brain, I do. One will find that most people in this city do.This year, Rising Tide is sponsoring a food drive to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank, and we need everybody to bring some food to help feed those in need. Where Second Harvest has…

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So it seems no one took yesterday's Rising Tide contest question too seriously, as, from what I could tell from my Twitter stream, most everyone had made it a point to watch If God Is Willing & Da Creek Don't Rise on HBO and National Geographic's Witness: Katrina last night.…

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This week marks the homestretch to an important anniversary that many of us who blog away like crazies at the keyboards have been prepping for in a number of ways: we get a venue, we get organized, we print up lotsa koozies, we steel our livers in anticipation of the…

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Most impending 8/29/05 commemorations haven't done to me what this one is doing this year. My brain seems to have shattered in more directions than I can count. A quasi-diagram of my brain on Katrina remembrance follows, with some assistance from my Twitter stream:First order of business must be to…

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And then, amid all my frazzle today, comes some great great news via Athenae:So there was a mix-up at the International Bird Rescue Research Center, and our pelicans couldn't be found. Turned out they had holed up in the back of the pelican pen and were discussing the world's affairs…

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Been working away on the printed programs for this year's Rising Tide Conference so that I don't have to do much of it next week. Things are going to be crazy enough as it is, what with all the 8/29/2005 anniversary events happening...plus, I must save my energy to give…

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"Where is the oil?"I'll tell you where the oil is. Via links on Twitter and through the Blog of New Orleans comes this study that says nearly 80% of it is still out there in the sea. The first few paragraphs of the report set the tone:On August 2, 2010,…

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Confession time:I'm a sucker for most of Athenae's Weekend Question Threads over at First Draft, and this weekend's question is no exception. Seems I've left many tidbits of my past lives over there in those threads, and here's another for you: What a loaded question for me. Darn near any…

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On our way to the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, I got a call from Edie."Drew Brees is signing his book at Borders, and I'm in the second group to get it signed. They're allowing three books per person to be signed by him. I can get a copy for…

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In the next few weeks, we come upon some fateful national anniversaries. And, for me, some spiritual ones.I spend the one closest to my secular heart among people who have become good friends, and I spend a great deal of time beforehand encouraging potential new friends to come and to…

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So the organizers of Rising Tide - the men in the group - have been going gaga over this video of our keynote speaker Mac McClelland. I personally think this ought to have been the one they go nuts over, but I guess the guys wanna save it for when…

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Our exit from Alaska was a whirlwind. We squeezed a visit to the University of Alaska - Fairbanks' Museum of the North the day after we got into town, then hauled everything into a cab to the airport and flew our separate ways - Dan to New Orleans, the little…

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Alaska Journal7-13-2010Swaying gently on the train to Fairbanks right now, so I'm stealing some writing time while Dan and the little guy are back in the dome car. Once again, we are in the "C" class and cannot go past the cafe car to the "Gold Star" oversized double-decker car.…

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"What if we win?"

Many, many men will be walking the streets wearing dresses. THAT'S where the guys'll be found. It will absolutely be like Christmas is here again, Mardi Gras came a bit early in black and gold, and JazzFest, Voodoo, and Essence Fest came to play together. For a week. Maybe a…

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"You don't have to put on the red light cameras"

Cameras at school zones - yes. But there are LOADS of 20 MPH school zone signs with flashers needed. That should have been the priority first for all the schools, and not just Sacred Heart and Trinity. Working crime cameras would be an asset. WORKING ones. Red light cameras -…

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"Holiday recommendation"

I too got a kick out of seeing the Deduct Box when I was at the Roosevelt on Sunday night. Gonna have to go back sometime and read the description on it. And thanks for the mention of Ride's plight.

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"The Oyster Filter: a new HumidBeings feature"

Mazel tov on your Filter, you treif thing, you! You're missing the "Off" in Brown's book title, btw.

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"Supa Vice - World Premiere of New Supa Saint Video"

Was that Jim McMahon Supa was partying next to at the stadium?

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"@QueenofSpain You sure that's not a Mary Kay Commando's Uzi? Drew Brees can kick that thing with his pink cleats."

He'll be wearing 'em for breast cancer awareness this coming Sunday.