Haiti is not Katrina
~Kathleen Tierney
Why Haiti is not New Orleans
~John McQuaid ~H/T~Levees.org
~When disaster strikes, it’s invariably followed by a rush of memes and metaphors about What It All Means.
In the aftermath of the disaster in Haiti, one of the ideas circulating is particularly facile and wrong-headed: likening the Haitian quake and Hurricane Katrina.
This is a dangerous comparison not only because Haiti is not New Orleans, but because New Orleans is not Haiti.
Yes, Louisiana has more than its share of corruption, poverty and social dysfunction. But to liken it to Haiti is to buy into the insidious notion that has plagued New Orleans before and after Katrina: that it is a geographical, cultural and demographic outlier, and thus irrelevant — and at worst not really part of America at all.
~Media Still Overplaying Race Card in Katrina Analysis?
~Vital Statistics from St. Gabriel Morgue, 11/14/05 (pdf)
How To Help in Haiti: the Grass- Roots Version~Harry Shearer
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Samedi
Just the facts are enough to make Chief Warren Riley look bad~Jarvis DeBerry
New Orleans mayoral candidate Troy Henry sued by former business partner~Michael Krupa
~More from American Zombie
Ethics Board backs law panel’s ruling~Marsha Shuler
Charity Hospital arbitration ruling promised within 60 days
~Jonathan Tilove
~The Charity dispute is not the only one that is being decided under the new process, but it is the largest, and, if it were not for the Charity case, the process might not exist at all.
Qui Tam Olympics – the protection game: ex rel Rigsby v State Farm ~slabbed
Uptown pianist Matthew Scoggin's LENIENT sentence warranted by harm to abuse victim, judge says~Cindy Chang
~"He's not a bad man(??), but he did something horrible to two little girls(????). Their lives will never be the same,"(???????) Van Davis said before sentencing.
~Editilla gotta ax wit'a chainsaw~ Naaahh, he's not such a bad guy! All he he did was pull down the panties of a 9 YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL and HAVE SEX WITH HER VAGINA????
10 Years? 10 measly years? Screw Jesus on a Stick!
Provided that this asshole survives his incarceration, he will be released from prison at the young age of 61, just in time to collect Social Security. But since Pedophiles Do Not Stop, he will have other opportunities to do this again to someone's child.
Well, since he's not such a Bad Man, then he should enjoy his Prison Sex Education classes with Big Rufus on Cell Block #9. Prisoners love to get letters BTW. I would like to know if it is true what they say about Prison Justice for pedophiles, like say... Matthew Scoggin... maybe send a picture too?
Not only do the prisoners at Angola read the Times-Picayune, but we know some who read your New Orleans Ladder.
Lucky Dog Shout-outs to Ratso, Piggy and Gimp Meisterschafter.
Y'all make sure and bring out the Welcome Wagon Train for this "not bad man" would'yaz?
Latrobe, designer of domes and columns gets his pedestal
~Philip Kennicott
~"He remains elusive to me, even in this spot," says Michael Fazio, a Latrobe expert but like all Latrobe experts, no fount of deep psychological wisdom about the hapless genius who finished so little but influenced so much.
"This spot" is a plaque in a New Orleans graveyard that marks the site near where Latrobe's body was buried.
As the film's host, New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger observes, Latrobe didn't go to New Orleans to die. But dying in middle age (of yellow fever) was just another bad turn of affairs in the life of a man who came to the United States after losing his first wife, only to build and lose a career, and descend ultimately into poverty and near oblivion.
Nursing in the Storm Book Sign by Sandra Cordray & Denise Danna~Garden District Books
Call to Artists- 3rd Annual Gulf South Regional
~Ascribing Artists
New Orleans Jazz Fest accepting applications for community outreach
For New Orleans musicians, music, politics and parking tickets collide~Keith Spera
New Orleans mayoral candidate Troy Henry sued by former business partner~Michael Krupa
~More from American Zombie
Ethics Board backs law panel’s ruling~Marsha Shuler
Charity Hospital arbitration ruling promised within 60 days
~Jonathan Tilove
~The Charity dispute is not the only one that is being decided under the new process, but it is the largest, and, if it were not for the Charity case, the process might not exist at all.
Qui Tam Olympics – the protection game: ex rel Rigsby v State Farm ~slabbed
Uptown pianist Matthew Scoggin's LENIENT sentence warranted by harm to abuse victim, judge says~Cindy Chang
~"He's not a bad man(??), but he did something horrible to two little girls(????). Their lives will never be the same,"(???????) Van Davis said before sentencing.
~Editilla gotta ax wit'a chainsaw~ Naaahh, he's not such a bad guy! All he he did was pull down the panties of a 9 YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL and HAVE SEX WITH HER VAGINA????
10 Years? 10 measly years? Screw Jesus on a Stick!
Provided that this asshole survives his incarceration, he will be released from prison at the young age of 61, just in time to collect Social Security. But since Pedophiles Do Not Stop, he will have other opportunities to do this again to someone's child.
Well, since he's not such a Bad Man, then he should enjoy his Prison Sex Education classes with Big Rufus on Cell Block #9. Prisoners love to get letters BTW. I would like to know if it is true what they say about Prison Justice for pedophiles, like say... Matthew Scoggin... maybe send a picture too?
Not only do the prisoners at Angola read the Times-Picayune, but we know some who read your New Orleans Ladder.
Lucky Dog Shout-outs to Ratso, Piggy and Gimp Meisterschafter.
Y'all make sure and bring out the Welcome Wagon Train for this "not bad man" would'yaz?
Latrobe, designer of domes and columns gets his pedestal
~Philip Kennicott
~"He remains elusive to me, even in this spot," says Michael Fazio, a Latrobe expert but like all Latrobe experts, no fount of deep psychological wisdom about the hapless genius who finished so little but influenced so much.
"This spot" is a plaque in a New Orleans graveyard that marks the site near where Latrobe's body was buried.
As the film's host, New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger observes, Latrobe didn't go to New Orleans to die. But dying in middle age (of yellow fever) was just another bad turn of affairs in the life of a man who came to the United States after losing his first wife, only to build and lose a career, and descend ultimately into poverty and near oblivion.
Nursing in the Storm Book Sign by Sandra Cordray & Denise Danna~Garden District Books
Call to Artists- 3rd Annual Gulf South Regional
~Ascribing Artists
New Orleans Jazz Fest accepting applications for community outreach
For New Orleans musicians, music, politics and parking tickets collide~Keith Spera
Friday, January 15, 2010
Honore: U.S. military should have reached Haiti sooner
New Orleans shares culture, and tragedy, with Haiti
~Jarvis DeBerry~That's an anguish we know all too well. It can seem like an eternity, the gap between a tragedy and accounting for everybody you love.
In Haiti, Awe-stuck News Media Run for Coverage and Ratings
Scientists defend coastal project against critics~Amy Wold
Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. covering fewer homeowners, CEO reports
~Ed Anderson
Slabbed Friday
P / C industry must increase to offset the underwriting investment~The most recent reports of property/casualty insurers indicate a return to profits, thanks in large measure to a quiet hurricane season. But behind the rosy reports is a thorny problem — lower investment income.
Editorial boards take notice: Charity a State issue with National consequences
SaveCharityHospital.com
Congratulations!
To Mrs. Gadbois, Mr. Zurik, and the rest of his former WWL crew for winning the illustrious Dupont award! ~H/T~American Zombie
New trees grow in Houma
~John DeSantis
Flood plan pricetag soars
~Joe Ferguson ~The Army Corps of Engineers now estimates that rechanneling the Rio de Flag through the city to prevent flooding in several neighborhoods will end up costing taxpayers $85 million. That is a $31 million increase from the last estimate offered by the Corps in 2004. The city of Flagstaff is financially responsible for up to 35 percent of the project.
Crumbling Infrastructure a National Security Concern, Experts Say ~Matthew Harwood
Traditional Frosted King Cake Recipe ~WWL
~Lassezes Le Bon Temp Roule'!
Cuban art celebration in NOLA
~Doug MacCash
BackTalk with B.G.~Clifton Lee
Sweet Home New Orleans
Cluster Lee & The Power House Blues Band~La. Music Factory
Jazz guitarist John Scofield's gospel detour to New Orleans led him down 'Piety Street'
~Keith Spera
See You Later Alligator: Louisiana Legend Bobby Charles Dead at 71
New Orleans shares culture, and tragedy, with Haiti
~Jarvis DeBerry~That's an anguish we know all too well. It can seem like an eternity, the gap between a tragedy and accounting for everybody you love.
In Haiti, Awe-stuck News Media Run for Coverage and Ratings
Scientists defend coastal project against critics~Amy Wold
Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. covering fewer homeowners, CEO reports
~Ed Anderson
Slabbed Friday
P / C industry must increase to offset the underwriting investment~The most recent reports of property/casualty insurers indicate a return to profits, thanks in large measure to a quiet hurricane season. But behind the rosy reports is a thorny problem — lower investment income.
Editorial boards take notice: Charity a State issue with National consequences
SaveCharityHospital.com
Congratulations!
To Mrs. Gadbois, Mr. Zurik, and the rest of his former WWL crew for winning the illustrious Dupont award! ~H/T~American Zombie
New trees grow in Houma
~John DeSantis
Flood plan pricetag soars
~Joe Ferguson ~The Army Corps of Engineers now estimates that rechanneling the Rio de Flag through the city to prevent flooding in several neighborhoods will end up costing taxpayers $85 million. That is a $31 million increase from the last estimate offered by the Corps in 2004. The city of Flagstaff is financially responsible for up to 35 percent of the project.
Crumbling Infrastructure a National Security Concern, Experts Say ~Matthew Harwood
Traditional Frosted King Cake Recipe ~WWL
~Lassezes Le Bon Temp Roule'!
Cuban art celebration in NOLA
~Doug MacCash
BackTalk with B.G.~Clifton Lee
Sweet Home New Orleans
Cluster Lee & The Power House Blues Band~La. Music Factory
Jazz guitarist John Scofield's gospel detour to New Orleans led him down 'Piety Street'
~Keith Spera
See You Later Alligator: Louisiana Legend Bobby Charles Dead at 71
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Jeudi
Entergy sues Corps of Engineers over damages it sustained during Federal Flood
~Mark 'Big Schleif' Schleifstein
~And this from our friend Allan Sayer at the AP
44 Inches of Snow on the Blog
~Hurricane Radio
Wet fall, winter could mean worse spring floods ~WDAM
HBO announces sequel to Spike Lee's Katrina documentary 'When the Levees Broke'
~Dave Walker
~Mark 'Big Schleif' Schleifstein
~And this from our friend Allan Sayer at the AP
44 Inches of Snow on the Blog
~Hurricane Radio
Wet fall, winter could mean worse spring floods ~WDAM
HBO announces sequel to Spike Lee's Katrina documentary 'When the Levees Broke'
~Dave Walker
Yele Haiti Foundation:
Wyclef Jean Leads Effort In
Aiding Haiti Victims
~The Yele Haiti Foundation, begun by Haiti native Wyclef Jean, is collecting donations to help those affected by the Haiti earthquake.
~The fastest way to donate may be by Text :
"Haiti" to 90999 to donate $10 to the American Red Cross,
or text Yele to 501 501 to donate $5.
Ciné Institute
Pulp Fiction Thursday Takes a Holiday ~ADRASTOS
Haiti earthquake stirs desire to help within New Orleans' Haitian community~Katie Urbaszewski
Katrina Surviving Louisiana Based Company Reaches Out to Haitian Earthquake Victims
Forgetting Katrina, Heritage Foundation says W. should lead U.S. Government's Haiti recovery~David Sirota
~"This is not from The Onion. This is real...
- the archconservative Heritage Foundation is calling on President Obama to appoint George W. Bush to lead the U.S. Government's Haiti recovery efforts. I shit you not."
The Shock Doctrine in Haiti?
~Richard Seymour
Charlie Melancon urges feds to settle over MR-GO flooding
~Mark Schleifstein
Taking on the Tides
~Yael I. Friedman
The Role of Remote Sensing in Predicting and Determining Coastal Storm Impacts
~Victor V. Klemas
The 37 Great Aquifer Systems of Earth: Solution to Global Drought ~SEMP
Diagram created by Jean Margat showing the world’s 37 very large aquifer systems. Source: Jean Margat: “Great aquifer systems of the world.” In Aquifer Systems Management: Darcy’s Legacy in a World of Impending Water.
Cracking the eggs to make the Carrollton Avenue omelet
~Squandered Heritage
Let's goes behind the ‘green door’ and takes a peek at the Jefferson Parish corruption hive: Adams & Reese welcome back to Slabbed
Working On My Negro Dialect ~Cliff's Crib
Garland Robinette comes out in support of same-sex marriage; WWL-AM listeners plotz
~Kevin Allman
Vice President Joe Biden to visit New Orleans, Grand Lake Friday
~Jonathan Tilove
Commissioner concerned about privatizing some jobs
~Marsha Shuler
La. sues companies over tainted Chinese drywall~Cain Burdeau
Jumping fish fly onto menus
~Jeremy Alford
Emma Chafin's Big Buck
HBO's 'Treme' makes its debut to TV critics~Dave Walker
~The second line rolls through neighborhoods still scarred by wreckage created from levee-failure floodwater.
~Editilla NOKS Cherry'O'las!~Thanks Dave!
Four-Legged Survivors of Hurricane Katrina
~Manohla Dargis ~One from the heart, the documentary “Mine” relates yet one more wrenching, infuriating story about Hurricane Katrina and the devastation wreaked both by the storm and by human error and indifference. While many victims in the movie will look familiar — whether waving from their New Orleans rooftops after the levees broke in 2005 or talking about their ruined lives and homes afterward — the majority of the victims here have usually been seen only in the background, forlornly howling and wagging their tails.
~Editilla Double Cherry'O'las!~The tide is turning on Katrina Shorthand! Thank you New York Times!
The NOLA Art House
~Alejandro De Los Rios
~A treehouse project in the Treme has become an unlikely place for art- fueled parties.
"The Installation," as it's called, was put together by residents of the NOLA Art House, a 19th-century mansion that's been converted into an artist commune where everyone from painters to writers to graffiti artists and DJs live, play and ply their trades.
Galactic: A Typical Serving May Include Drums, Bass, Horns, Funk, Grease, And A Whole Lotta New Orleans Bounce
~Sal Nunziato
~Here's to the Handsome who bares our Sweet Soul to Heaven.
*
Wyclef Jean Leads Effort In
Aiding Haiti Victims
~The Yele Haiti Foundation, begun by Haiti native Wyclef Jean, is collecting donations to help those affected by the Haiti earthquake.~The fastest way to donate may be by Text :
"Haiti" to 90999 to donate $10 to the American Red Cross,
or text Yele to 501 501 to donate $5.
Ciné Institute
Pulp Fiction Thursday Takes a Holiday ~ADRASTOS
Haiti earthquake stirs desire to help within New Orleans' Haitian community~Katie Urbaszewski
Katrina Surviving Louisiana Based Company Reaches Out to Haitian Earthquake Victims
Forgetting Katrina, Heritage Foundation says W. should lead U.S. Government's Haiti recovery~David Sirota
~"This is not from The Onion. This is real...
- the archconservative Heritage Foundation is calling on President Obama to appoint George W. Bush to lead the U.S. Government's Haiti recovery efforts. I shit you not."
The Shock Doctrine in Haiti?
~Richard Seymour
Charlie Melancon urges feds to settle over MR-GO flooding
~Mark Schleifstein
"The Corps' lassitude and failure to fulfill its duties resulted in a catastrophic loss of human life and property in unprecedented proportions."
~US District Judge Stanwood Durval
Taking on the Tides
~Yael I. Friedman
The Role of Remote Sensing in Predicting and Determining Coastal Storm Impacts
~Victor V. Klemas
The 37 Great Aquifer Systems of Earth: Solution to Global Drought ~SEMP
Diagram created by Jean Margat showing the world’s 37 very large aquifer systems. Source: Jean Margat: “Great aquifer systems of the world.” In Aquifer Systems Management: Darcy’s Legacy in a World of Impending Water.Cracking the eggs to make the Carrollton Avenue omelet
~Squandered Heritage
Let's goes behind the ‘green door’ and takes a peek at the Jefferson Parish corruption hive: Adams & Reese welcome back to Slabbed
Working On My Negro Dialect ~Cliff's Crib
Garland Robinette comes out in support of same-sex marriage; WWL-AM listeners plotz
~Kevin Allman
Vice President Joe Biden to visit New Orleans, Grand Lake Friday
~Jonathan Tilove
Commissioner concerned about privatizing some jobs
~Marsha Shuler
La. sues companies over tainted Chinese drywall~Cain Burdeau
Jumping fish fly onto menus
~Jeremy Alford
Emma Chafin's Big Buck
HBO's 'Treme' makes its debut to TV critics~Dave Walker
~The second line rolls through neighborhoods still scarred by wreckage created from levee-failure floodwater.
~Editilla NOKS Cherry'O'las!~Thanks Dave!
Four-Legged Survivors of Hurricane Katrina
~Manohla Dargis ~One from the heart, the documentary “Mine” relates yet one more wrenching, infuriating story about Hurricane Katrina and the devastation wreaked both by the storm and by human error and indifference. While many victims in the movie will look familiar — whether waving from their New Orleans rooftops after the levees broke in 2005 or talking about their ruined lives and homes afterward — the majority of the victims here have usually been seen only in the background, forlornly howling and wagging their tails.
~Editilla Double Cherry'O'las!~The tide is turning on Katrina Shorthand! Thank you New York Times!
The NOLA Art House
~Alejandro De Los Rios
~A treehouse project in the Treme has become an unlikely place for art- fueled parties.
"The Installation," as it's called, was put together by residents of the NOLA Art House, a 19th-century mansion that's been converted into an artist commune where everyone from painters to writers to graffiti artists and DJs live, play and ply their trades.
Galactic: A Typical Serving May Include Drums, Bass, Horns, Funk, Grease, And A Whole Lotta New Orleans Bounce
~Sal Nunziato
~Here's to the Handsome who bares our Sweet Soul to Heaven.
*
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Mercredi
Haiti Earthquake Leaves Thousands Dead or Missing ~Bloomberg~USGS~Updates: Here, Here, Here, Here~Help Here, Here
~More Video Here, Here
~Also~Island of Salvation Botanica
~Wyclef Jean helping through 'Yéle Haiti'
In urgent times, avoiding online charity scams
~Caroline McCarthy
Understanding & Identifying Types of PTSD Triggers (Part 1)
~PTSD Spirituality
Are you starting to see the pattern?~American Zombie
Pull the curtain on Charity Hospital's hearings: An editorial
The Fantasy Assignment Desk: Where's the Brennan Op-Ed on Iraq?~Harry Shearer
No chérie I have not been ignoring AIG and Goldman Sachs. Lets talk TARP, Wall Street investment banking and Reinsurance ~slabbed
Department of Commerce weighs lifting tariff on Thailand shrimp~John DeSantis
Water outage hits Donaldsonville area
~David J. Mitchell
Habitat turns to modular construction to build home
~Ida Brown
Why I live in New Orleans
~Leeandra Nolting
~Hat Tweets to Charolette
N+O: Bayou Contessa Opens a Fabulous New Shop and Interior Design Studio with friend, Shawn O'Brien!
'Who dat?' popularized by New Orleans Saints fans when 'everybody was looking for the sign'~Dave Walker
Senator David Vitter (R-Pamp) 'addresses' Tea-Tea Party
Pope Fears Pagan Avatars D'OH!
Sees Threat to World Franchise!
~The Vatican newspaper and radio station are criticizing James Cameron's 3-D blockbuster for flirting with the idea that worship of nature can replace religion — a notion the pope has warned against. L'Osservatore said the film "gets bogged down by a spiritualism linked to the worship of nature." Similarly, Vatican Radio said it "cleverly winks at all those pseudo-doctrines that turn ecology into the religion of the millennium."
Holy See Batman!
You say Ecology...I say Theology.
You say Proctology ...I say Philology.
Ecology! Theology! Proctology! Philology!
Let's Call Da'Logy Thing Off!
Total inversion~science fictional
Now Playing at Zeitgeist:
“The Horse Boy”
~Lauren LaBorde, Gambit
Simon & Garfunkel to Star at First Weekend of New Orleans Jazz Fest~All About Jazz
*Ah what the hell... Sole 2010 US Gig?
*We gotta Simon making Treme, and Simon comin'ta Play!
B-52’s to headline Muses' Ball ~Kevin Allman
Preservation Hall bassist Walter Payton suffers stroke on tour
~Keith Spera
Willie Nelson kicks off a two-night stand in New Orleans
~New Orleans.com
~More Video Here, Here
~Also~Island of Salvation Botanica
~Wyclef Jean helping through 'Yéle Haiti'
In urgent times, avoiding online charity scams
~Caroline McCarthy
Understanding & Identifying Types of PTSD Triggers (Part 1)
~PTSD Spirituality
Are you starting to see the pattern?~American Zombie
Pull the curtain on Charity Hospital's hearings: An editorial
The Fantasy Assignment Desk: Where's the Brennan Op-Ed on Iraq?~Harry Shearer
No chérie I have not been ignoring AIG and Goldman Sachs. Lets talk TARP, Wall Street investment banking and Reinsurance ~slabbed
Department of Commerce weighs lifting tariff on Thailand shrimp~John DeSantis
Water outage hits Donaldsonville area
~David J. Mitchell
Habitat turns to modular construction to build home
~Ida Brown
Why I live in New Orleans
~Leeandra Nolting
~Hat Tweets to Charolette
N+O: Bayou Contessa Opens a Fabulous New Shop and Interior Design Studio with friend, Shawn O'Brien!
'Who dat?' popularized by New Orleans Saints fans when 'everybody was looking for the sign'~Dave Walker
Senator David Vitter (R-Pamp) 'addresses' Tea-Tea Party
Pope Fears Pagan Avatars D'OH!
Sees Threat to World Franchise!
~The Vatican newspaper and radio station are criticizing James Cameron's 3-D blockbuster for flirting with the idea that worship of nature can replace religion — a notion the pope has warned against. L'Osservatore said the film "gets bogged down by a spiritualism linked to the worship of nature." Similarly, Vatican Radio said it "cleverly winks at all those pseudo-doctrines that turn ecology into the religion of the millennium."
Holy See Batman!
You say Ecology...I say Theology.
You say Proctology ...I say Philology.
Ecology! Theology! Proctology! Philology!
Let's Call Da'Logy Thing Off!
Total inversion~science fictional
Now Playing at Zeitgeist:
“The Horse Boy”
~Lauren LaBorde, Gambit
Simon & Garfunkel to Star at First Weekend of New Orleans Jazz Fest~All About Jazz
*Ah what the hell... Sole 2010 US Gig?
*We gotta Simon making Treme, and Simon comin'ta Play!
B-52’s to headline Muses' Ball ~Kevin Allman
Preservation Hall bassist Walter Payton suffers stroke on tour
~Keith Spera
Willie Nelson kicks off a two-night stand in New Orleans
~New Orleans.com
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Bashing NOLA transplants...
~things kevin hates
~Since my post on suburb bashing drew lots of attention, I figured I’d return to a topic I’d said I would cover: bashing New Orleans residents who aren’t natives.
This strikes me as downright inhospitable.
Just as being American isn’t really about where you were born, neither is being a New Orleanian. It’s true that the way we use the English language, you wouldn’t say you’re from somewhere unless you were born there or spent a significant part of your childhood there. But the history of this city is littered with notable New Orleans residents who aren’t from here.
~Please click Map to enlarge~Howz'ya Mominem?
Levees.org Book Review: "Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City"
~Also~Levees.org’s map and research to be published in Insurance Journal Magazine~Click Map to Enlarge.
Landrieu looking for new coastal approach~Clair Taylor
Reorganization of Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration to speed coastal aid?
Slabbed St. Bernard lets contracts for mass slab removal
Galveston seawall repairs should be done by April
~Rhiannon Meyers
Can New Orleans' mayoral campaign transcend race?
~Jarvis DeBerry
~Editilla Gotta'Witnasss~Can a Black call the Kettle White? ~~and a new word! Auto-Sodomy: the act of Forking One's Self in the Ass --Butt Good!
~"Are you starting to see the pattern?" ~axs AZ.
Race Assumes Central Role in New Orleans Vote
~Campbell Robertson
New Orleans music, culture are theme of mayoral forum
~Keith Spera~Five of the six major mayoral candidates affirmed Monday that music and culture are vital to the future of New Orleans, during a forum at Loyola University.
Reggie Poised for Playoff Push?
~Canal Street Chronicles
~Bush, a Heisman winner and second overall pick, has a great knack for making an otherworldly play just when it seems appropriate to question his production in relation to his pedigree.
-Tim Layden, Sports Illustrated
My Katrina Diary
~Michael Homan
New Orleans Police officer hurt in Central Business District crash has died~Ramon Vargas
Breaking News – Bossier v State Farm fully and finally settled ~slabbed
*Editilla just can't get enough of this song or DOH Wylie Lama!
Memorial Medical Center death after Katrina still being investigated by coroner
~Bill Barrow
CA Helps Secure Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange
Charity Hospital arbitration panel to hear from FEMA next
~Jonathan Tilove
St. Charles Ave. roadwork taking longer than planned~Jay Vise
Join Us in New Orleans for Urban Pathways to Livable Communities~Rails to Trails
Y--HPO, LPV 110, CSX Railroad Gate, New Orleans East Levee Enlargement, Orleans Parish
New St. Bernard Parish Animal Shelter Opens
Post-Federal Flood, Pet Custody a Prominent Legal Issue
~Linda Lombardi
"Assessing Post-Katrina Recovery in New Orleans: Recommendations for Equitable Rebuilding,"~Dept of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
~Professor Karl Seidman has released a report detailing DUSP's work in New Orleans since Katrina and offering policy recommendations to address serious shortfalls in the government's response to date. The department has been and continues to be among the most active urban planning departments on the Gulf Coast since Katrina struck in 2005.
Using Hurricane Katrina As Model, People's Racial Biases Can Skew Perceptions of How Much Help Victims Need
~Kansas City infoZine
Seven Questions for the Country’s Top Emergency Managers ~BioSeal Systems
Whats more destructive..?
~Tornado Questions
~God tries but Fails to smite Tower of Babel.Dubai
Tickets to City of New Orleans Grandstands on sale now!
~MG Parade Schedules.com
The “Tremé” trailer~Gambit
'Jonah Hex,' shot in New Orleans, reloads for reshoots
~Mike Scott
Q & A with Author Elise Blackwell~Karen Zacharias
Jazz records: The cult of obscurity ~Harold Jackson
The New Orleans music scene:
A decade in review
~Geraldine Wyckoff~H'T'n'Ts to Red Stick Irene! Happy New Year, Gal!
Anders Osborne and Juice heat up Tipitina's on Friday night
~Martha Alguera
~things kevin hates
~Since my post on suburb bashing drew lots of attention, I figured I’d return to a topic I’d said I would cover: bashing New Orleans residents who aren’t natives.
This strikes me as downright inhospitable.
Just as being American isn’t really about where you were born, neither is being a New Orleanian. It’s true that the way we use the English language, you wouldn’t say you’re from somewhere unless you were born there or spent a significant part of your childhood there. But the history of this city is littered with notable New Orleans residents who aren’t from here.~Please click Map to enlarge~Howz'ya Mominem?
Levees.org Book Review: "Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City"
~Also~Levees.org’s map and research to be published in Insurance Journal Magazine~Click Map to Enlarge.Landrieu looking for new coastal approach~Clair Taylor
Reorganization of Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration to speed coastal aid?
Slabbed St. Bernard lets contracts for mass slab removal
Galveston seawall repairs should be done by April
~Rhiannon Meyers
Can New Orleans' mayoral campaign transcend race?
~Jarvis DeBerry
~Editilla Gotta'Witnasss~Can a Black call the Kettle White? ~~and a new word! Auto-Sodomy: the act of Forking One's Self in the Ass --Butt Good!
~"Are you starting to see the pattern?" ~axs AZ.
Race Assumes Central Role in New Orleans Vote
~Campbell Robertson
New Orleans music, culture are theme of mayoral forum
~Keith Spera~Five of the six major mayoral candidates affirmed Monday that music and culture are vital to the future of New Orleans, during a forum at Loyola University.
Reggie Poised for Playoff Push?
~Canal Street Chronicles
~Bush, a Heisman winner and second overall pick, has a great knack for making an otherworldly play just when it seems appropriate to question his production in relation to his pedigree.
-Tim Layden, Sports Illustrated
My Katrina Diary
~Michael Homan
New Orleans Police officer hurt in Central Business District crash has died~Ramon Vargas
Breaking News – Bossier v State Farm fully and finally settled ~slabbed
*Editilla just can't get enough of this song or DOH Wylie Lama!
Memorial Medical Center death after Katrina still being investigated by coroner
~Bill Barrow
CA Helps Secure Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange
Charity Hospital arbitration panel to hear from FEMA next
~Jonathan Tilove
St. Charles Ave. roadwork taking longer than planned~Jay Vise
Join Us in New Orleans for Urban Pathways to Livable Communities~Rails to Trails
Y--HPO, LPV 110, CSX Railroad Gate, New Orleans East Levee Enlargement, Orleans Parish
New St. Bernard Parish Animal Shelter Opens
Post-Federal Flood, Pet Custody a Prominent Legal Issue
~Linda Lombardi
"Assessing Post-Katrina Recovery in New Orleans: Recommendations for Equitable Rebuilding,"~Dept of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
~Professor Karl Seidman has released a report detailing DUSP's work in New Orleans since Katrina and offering policy recommendations to address serious shortfalls in the government's response to date. The department has been and continues to be among the most active urban planning departments on the Gulf Coast since Katrina struck in 2005.
Using Hurricane Katrina As Model, People's Racial Biases Can Skew Perceptions of How Much Help Victims Need
~Kansas City infoZine
Seven Questions for the Country’s Top Emergency Managers ~BioSeal Systems
Whats more destructive..?
~Tornado Questions
~God tries but Fails to smite Tower of Babel.DubaiTickets to City of New Orleans Grandstands on sale now!
~MG Parade Schedules.com
The “Tremé” trailer~Gambit
'Jonah Hex,' shot in New Orleans, reloads for reshoots
~Mike Scott
Q & A with Author Elise Blackwell~Karen Zacharias
Jazz records: The cult of obscurity ~Harold Jackson
The New Orleans music scene:
A decade in review
~Geraldine Wyckoff~H'T'n'Ts to Red Stick Irene! Happy New Year, Gal!
Anders Osborne and Juice heat up Tipitina's on Friday night
~Martha Alguera
Monday, January 11, 2010
Lundi
This explains so much...
Little did I know our police chief was paranoid schizophrenic.
~American Zombie
The Mobile Press Register tackles NFIP reform:
The Slabbed are the fly in the ointment that just won’t go away
Sometimes Editilla just needs to return to the good Map...
Image: Fisk, 1944. Map of ancient courses of the Mississippi River, Cape Girardeau, MO - Donaldsonville, LA. See the entire set of beautiful Fisk Maps here... all brought to you by Pruned.
We just loves maps.
I first ran across this map here, ironically in the fields of my youth.
Five levee questions — who, what, when, where and how (why is implicit) ~lacoastpost.com
Little did I know our police chief was paranoid schizophrenic.
~American Zombie
The Mobile Press Register tackles NFIP reform:
The Slabbed are the fly in the ointment that just won’t go away
Sometimes Editilla just needs to return to the good Map...
Image: Fisk, 1944. Map of ancient courses of the Mississippi River, Cape Girardeau, MO - Donaldsonville, LA. See the entire set of beautiful Fisk Maps here... all brought to you by Pruned.
We just loves maps.
I first ran across this map here, ironically in the fields of my youth.
Five levee questions — who, what, when, where and how (why is implicit) ~lacoastpost.com
Hearing starts in Charity Hospital, FEMA dispute
~Jonathan Tilove
Charity Hearing Behind Closed Doors~SaveCharityHospital.com
Louisiana angling for an answer on invasive fish
Presidio Flood Control Project ~Cubit
Corps, EPA and WVDEP to explain permit process
~Ken Ward Jr.
Hybrids make push into heavy equipment sector
~Korky Koroluk
Mentally Limited and Attitudinally Limited
~Bree Palin
*
Mother Catherine by Zora Neale Hurston~52 Stories
~One must go straight out St. Claude below the Industrial Canal and turn south on Flood Street and go almost to the Florida Walk. Looking to the right one sees a large enclosure walled round with a high board fence. A half-dozen flags fly bravely from eminences. A Greek cross tops the chapel. A large American flag flies from the huge tent. A marsh lies between Flood Street and that flag-flying enclosure, and one must walk. As one approaches, the personality of the place comes out to meet one. No ordinary person created this thing. At the gate there is a rusty wire sticking out through a hole. That is the bell. But a painted notice on the gate itself reads: “Mother Seal is a holy spirit and must not be disturbed.”
Local Abbeville author publishes debut novel~Jack Murray of Miami attempts a simple residential burglary which backfires, landing him in jail. When he gets out a year later, he runs into his old partner in crime, Rudy Maxa, who got away with the money.
As Murray tries to choose between leading a legitimate life and falling back into old ways — Maxa is now partners with a dangerous criminal named Tiras with ties to running guns — there’s intrigue, romance and more in Brandon Hebert’s novel, My Own Worst Enemy (Gale).
Sculpture for New Orleans
~Doug MacCash
Now New Orleans Is His Focus
~Larry Blumenfeld
~"I remember stumbling into my first second-line parade maybe 20 years ago," said Mr. Simon, now 49, as he leaned back in his chair at a production office in Manhattan's West Village. "The Treme brass band went up Orleans Avenue to Claiborne Avenue, then stopped under the I-10 bridge. The echo was fantastic. They went past the Lafitte projects and people came out of their homes to join in. I was all the way up in Mid-City before I realized I'd walked 30 blocks and would have to walk all the way back. I didn't know exactly what was going on, but I was hooked."
Oyster Evangelists Rise Up
~The Specialist,WSJ
Michael Pollan Offers 64 Ways to Eat Food
~Tara Parker-Pope
Irvin Mayfield to teach 2nd class at the University of New Orleans
~John Pope
~Jonathan Tilove
Charity Hearing Behind Closed Doors~SaveCharityHospital.com
Louisiana angling for an answer on invasive fish
Presidio Flood Control Project ~Cubit
Corps, EPA and WVDEP to explain permit process
~Ken Ward Jr.
Hybrids make push into heavy equipment sector
~Korky Koroluk
Mentally Limited and Attitudinally Limited
~Bree Palin
*
Mother Catherine by Zora Neale Hurston~52 Stories
~One must go straight out St. Claude below the Industrial Canal and turn south on Flood Street and go almost to the Florida Walk. Looking to the right one sees a large enclosure walled round with a high board fence. A half-dozen flags fly bravely from eminences. A Greek cross tops the chapel. A large American flag flies from the huge tent. A marsh lies between Flood Street and that flag-flying enclosure, and one must walk. As one approaches, the personality of the place comes out to meet one. No ordinary person created this thing. At the gate there is a rusty wire sticking out through a hole. That is the bell. But a painted notice on the gate itself reads: “Mother Seal is a holy spirit and must not be disturbed.”
Local Abbeville author publishes debut novel~Jack Murray of Miami attempts a simple residential burglary which backfires, landing him in jail. When he gets out a year later, he runs into his old partner in crime, Rudy Maxa, who got away with the money.
As Murray tries to choose between leading a legitimate life and falling back into old ways — Maxa is now partners with a dangerous criminal named Tiras with ties to running guns — there’s intrigue, romance and more in Brandon Hebert’s novel, My Own Worst Enemy (Gale).
Sculpture for New Orleans
~Doug MacCash
Now New Orleans Is His Focus
~Larry Blumenfeld
~"I remember stumbling into my first second-line parade maybe 20 years ago," said Mr. Simon, now 49, as he leaned back in his chair at a production office in Manhattan's West Village. "The Treme brass band went up Orleans Avenue to Claiborne Avenue, then stopped under the I-10 bridge. The echo was fantastic. They went past the Lafitte projects and people came out of their homes to join in. I was all the way up in Mid-City before I realized I'd walked 30 blocks and would have to walk all the way back. I didn't know exactly what was going on, but I was hooked."
Oyster Evangelists Rise Up
~The Specialist,WSJ
Michael Pollan Offers 64 Ways to Eat Food
~Tara Parker-Pope
Irvin Mayfield to teach 2nd class at the University of New Orleans
~John Pope
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Dimanche
Man of the Year Vs. Apeshit Rich Guy~American Zombie
Experts on sleaze are all over the place~James Gill
Police Superintendent Warren Riley joins the Race Card Game ~Brendan McCarthy
~Without offering evidence, Riley alleged Wednesday on an interview on WBOK-AM that the message from Head referred to him as a "nigger." The allegations are the latest in a long- simmering feud between the police chief and the councilwoman.
Head called Riley's assertion, for which he has yet to offer any proof, "absolutely, wholeheartedly, unequivocally not true. It's against my grain; it's against my core."
Jindal fielding inquiries on
Lt Gov job~Central La Politics
We wonder if new EPA Chief is as Clueless, Inaccurate and Fragrantly Bigoted as the AP?
~More than four years after Hurricane Katrina, the single-story brick rancher in Pontchartrain Park where Lisa Perez Jackson grew up stands empty.
Katrina was the closest that an environmental disaster had hit home for someone who has spent her career solving environmental problems. The storm's toll on Jackson's childhood house and on New Orleans, particularly the Ninth Ward where she was raised, has intensified her quest for what's known as environmental justice.
~From the comments: "What is Lisa Jackson's mother doing with no home insurance while her daughter is one of New Jersey's highest ranking and paid state officials? And, how come after the storm that a volunteer group had to clean out her mother's home? I'm in shock anyone would even begin to think this was a good article outlining this woman's agenda. She sounds nauseating and frightening. I don' t care what her race is."
~Editilla Roiltellas~ Despite her boss, His'O'ner the President, finally dropping by New Orleans like Elmer Gantry on tour with a faux-southern accent to pee down our leg and tell us it was Katrina, we sincerely wonder if Ms Jackson knows that her momma's home was flooded by the Corps of Engineers and not Katrina? Yes, lets talk about "Environmental Justice"! It is a good question because the Corps might easily Do It Again.
What is Levees.org?
~Sandy Rosenthal
Never forget, never forgive ~Louisiana 1976
Download America Betrayed
~“America Betrayed” (First Run Features) looks at the response (or lack of response) to Katrina and it is even more shocking now. The nation is still in denial about what really caused the post-storm disaster which in many cases was worse than the bumbled immediate emergency disaster.
FEMA and Corps have explaining to do~Sen. Dick Durbin last week added his voice to the chorus calling for FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to explain themselves on the metro-east levees.
"Understanding the structural integrity of the levees in the metro-east area and the risk to those living behind them is fundamentally important to my constituents: hundreds of thousands of lives and billions in economic activity are at stake," Durbin wrote to the two agencies. Local leaders asked for this information months ago, but have yet to get a detailed response.
On Sunday even God gat slabbed
Insurance companies do well from flood program; critics question whether industry alliance is good for taxpayers
~Sean Reilly
Climbing insurance premiums raise concern locally
Proposed Cape Cod wind farm halted by Native Americans
~Katherine Butler
~In a move that will further delay the already controversial Cape Wind project, the National Park Service announced Monday that Nantucket Sound was eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. This decision came as a reaction to a request from the Mashpee Wampanoag of Cape Cod and the Aquinnah Wampanoag of Martha’s Vineyard, who claim the 130 proposed wind turbines would thwart their spiritual ritual of greeting the sunrise and disturb ancestral burial grounds.
Biofuels Research Center to focus efforts at LSU AgCenter
~Molly Reid
Nice Little History of Louisiana
The Americanization of Mental Illness~Ethan Watters
PTSD Spirituality:
The Causes of PTSD
1st Librarian chosen as National Archivist ~NPR
~Some 10 billion things are housed in the National Archives, from the monumental to the miniscule, and David Ferriero is now in charge of them all. He'll be sworn in Wednesday as the new Archivist of the United States, the 10th person to hold the position, and the first librarian.
Because there seems to be some interest in comfort food today
~Library Chronicles
Sitting On My Porch Part Thirty Eight~Cliff's Crib
Down In The Hole with David Simon
~Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans
Midori is not a liqueur
~Kosher Computing
Sunday Funnies~Citizen K
Lady Jetsetter Secondline Parade Sunday 12noon - 4pm
~Red Cotton
Ways to Give this Season and Have a Blast While Doing It! Part One: The Pussyfooter’s Blush Ball ~NOLAFemmes
Experts on sleaze are all over the place~James Gill
Police Superintendent Warren Riley joins the Race Card Game ~Brendan McCarthy
~Without offering evidence, Riley alleged Wednesday on an interview on WBOK-AM that the message from Head referred to him as a "nigger." The allegations are the latest in a long- simmering feud between the police chief and the councilwoman.
Head called Riley's assertion, for which he has yet to offer any proof, "absolutely, wholeheartedly, unequivocally not true. It's against my grain; it's against my core."
Jindal fielding inquiries on
Lt Gov job~Central La Politics
We wonder if new EPA Chief is as Clueless, Inaccurate and Fragrantly Bigoted as the AP?
~More than four years after Hurricane Katrina, the single-story brick rancher in Pontchartrain Park where Lisa Perez Jackson grew up stands empty.
Katrina was the closest that an environmental disaster had hit home for someone who has spent her career solving environmental problems. The storm's toll on Jackson's childhood house and on New Orleans, particularly the Ninth Ward where she was raised, has intensified her quest for what's known as environmental justice.
~From the comments: "What is Lisa Jackson's mother doing with no home insurance while her daughter is one of New Jersey's highest ranking and paid state officials? And, how come after the storm that a volunteer group had to clean out her mother's home? I'm in shock anyone would even begin to think this was a good article outlining this woman's agenda. She sounds nauseating and frightening. I don' t care what her race is."
~Editilla Roiltellas~ Despite her boss, His'O'ner the President, finally dropping by New Orleans like Elmer Gantry on tour with a faux-southern accent to pee down our leg and tell us it was Katrina, we sincerely wonder if Ms Jackson knows that her momma's home was flooded by the Corps of Engineers and not Katrina? Yes, lets talk about "Environmental Justice"! It is a good question because the Corps might easily Do It Again.
What is Levees.org?
~Sandy Rosenthal
Never forget, never forgive ~Louisiana 1976
Download America Betrayed
~“America Betrayed” (First Run Features) looks at the response (or lack of response) to Katrina and it is even more shocking now. The nation is still in denial about what really caused the post-storm disaster which in many cases was worse than the bumbled immediate emergency disaster.
FEMA and Corps have explaining to do~Sen. Dick Durbin last week added his voice to the chorus calling for FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to explain themselves on the metro-east levees.
"Understanding the structural integrity of the levees in the metro-east area and the risk to those living behind them is fundamentally important to my constituents: hundreds of thousands of lives and billions in economic activity are at stake," Durbin wrote to the two agencies. Local leaders asked for this information months ago, but have yet to get a detailed response.
On Sunday even God gat slabbed
Insurance companies do well from flood program; critics question whether industry alliance is good for taxpayers
~Sean Reilly
Climbing insurance premiums raise concern locally
Proposed Cape Cod wind farm halted by Native Americans
~Katherine Butler
~In a move that will further delay the already controversial Cape Wind project, the National Park Service announced Monday that Nantucket Sound was eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. This decision came as a reaction to a request from the Mashpee Wampanoag of Cape Cod and the Aquinnah Wampanoag of Martha’s Vineyard, who claim the 130 proposed wind turbines would thwart their spiritual ritual of greeting the sunrise and disturb ancestral burial grounds.
Biofuels Research Center to focus efforts at LSU AgCenter
~Molly Reid
Nice Little History of Louisiana
The Americanization of Mental Illness~Ethan Watters
PTSD Spirituality:
The Causes of PTSD
1st Librarian chosen as National Archivist ~NPR
~Some 10 billion things are housed in the National Archives, from the monumental to the miniscule, and David Ferriero is now in charge of them all. He'll be sworn in Wednesday as the new Archivist of the United States, the 10th person to hold the position, and the first librarian.
Because there seems to be some interest in comfort food today
~Library Chronicles
Sitting On My Porch Part Thirty Eight~Cliff's Crib
Down In The Hole with David Simon
~Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans
Midori is not a liqueur
~Kosher Computing
Sunday Funnies~Citizen K
Lady Jetsetter Secondline Parade Sunday 12noon - 4pm
~Red Cotton
Ways to Give this Season and Have a Blast While Doing It! Part One: The Pussyfooter’s Blush Ball ~NOLAFemmes
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