Saturday, August 8, 2009

Samedi

Swine flu scare blamed on NOLA too???~Amber Sandoval-Griffin
~Editilla the Pun say Cheese Us for Jesus~
That's right America
. After we destroyed our city with 50 strategic floodwall demolitions, we then needed squads of Pigs to police the resultant Crime and Mayhem between our Fey Blacks and invading Mexican Entrepreneurs of the Recovery.
Sooo we, (the real power behind your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning for Drew Brees, the wretched refuse of your teaming corps, your homeless, tempest-tossed booger'man looters who lift their lamps beside the golden door-greeter)
...we used our Famous Lower Bourbon St. Voodoo Queens to hoot the viscous soup of toxic floodwater into a force of swine golems who know No Boundaries, but only Lines to X fo'da Dark Lady!
Unfortunately, our Nippy Order of Peccary Defenders went feral right off the levee, quickly developing an appetite for cheese that has now devolved into an unstoppable hunger to bring down our Holy God Father White America --by invading the bodies of some of our whitest pestibules of Sméagolitarian Virtue: Lutherans!
Mmmwhahahaaa!
Yeeeesss, me precious ones.
Welcome...to the Island of Dr. Boudreaux!

Corps of Engineers awards
four levee job contracts
~Mark Schleifstein


23nd Annual LEAN People’s Conference~Vermillionair

City reaches financial settlement with victim of post-flood police brutality in French Quarters
~Brendan McCarthy

~The incident on Bourbon Street five weeks after the storm received international attention after parts of the altercation between several law enforcement officers and Davis, 66, were captured by two cameramen and broadcast around the world. The tape was often referred to as the prime exhibit of the post-Katrina struggles of a police department with a long history of brutality.

Sign up! It's cooler than the Jonas Brothers Twits!
~SaveCharityHospital.com


Slabbed Proudly Presents the Cyber Premiere of the
Winds of Katrina

~Slabbed was honored a few weeks ago to have the good folks at Bill Hudson and Associates send us a complimentary copy of the Winds of Katrina, a presentation of the Coastal Weather Research Center of the University of South Alabama.
After watching the 20 minute documentary we immediately inquired if it was or could be embedded on YouTube as the scientific treatment of what made Katrina’s winds special (for lack of a better term) is simply excellent. Dr Bill Williams and Dr Keith Blackwell provide a Joe Friday like narration laying out what we had the misfortune of experiencing first hand; the destructive power of the violent winds that buffeted the Mississippi Coast for hours before the storm surge arrived.

State Farm proposes rate hike ~Anita Lee

As recovery crawls in parts of N.O., liquor licenses become a major issue~Susan Edwards

Study links immigration and evacuee fears~Mike Snyder
~Worries about strangers in their midst --whether from another country or a neighboring state-- became intertwined in the minds of many Harris County residents, according to a new analysis of data from the annual Houston Area Survey.
“Although the evacuees comprised one of the largest forced internal migrations in U.S. history, many residents did not distinguish them from the continual streams of non-U.S. citizens seeking to re-establish their lives in the local area,” authors Jason Shelton and M. Nicole Sherman write in an article scheduled for September publication in the journal Social Science Quarterly.

Jean Lafitte mayor shows off new safe house~Allen Powell II

The beautiful and bountiful
New Orleans Botanical Garden in City Park~Kathleen K Parker

~Originally named the City Park Rose Garden in 1936, the New Orleans Botanical Garden was a product of the WPA era, and it is one of few WPA undertakings that is still in use and open to the public on a regular schedule.
Its style was primarily Art Deco and was the design of architect Richard Kosch, landscape architect William Wiedorn, and artist-sculptor Enrique Alferez.
It was New Orleans’ first classical public garden. When funding from the WPA ended, the garden was left on its own. Between 1940 and 1980, the
New Orleans Botanical Garden, as it is known today, declined.
~Alferez Statue. Photo Kathleen K Paker

NOLA Red Dress Run Today!

Dirty Linen Night 2009 takes place Saturday ~Doug MacCash

RIP Mink (Willy) DeVille
~Casey Rae-Hunter



Jeff Duperon to Host
"Congo Square" at Taint Radio
~all about Jazz


Jeff Buckley remembered and more music in New Orleans for Saturday~Keith Spera

4 comments:

Kathleen K. Parker said...

Thank you, Editilla, for including in your site my article, The Beautiful and Bountiful New Orleans Botanical Garden in City Park. I really appreciate this and loved your story about Enrique Alferez with his 30-30 rifle. How wonderful is that!
Kathleen
Kathleen K. Parker, 8-8-09

Editilla said...

Thanks youz again, Ms KK!
I got that from here:
[City officials ordered Alferez to chisel off the genitalia, but the artist refused. To ensure that no one desecrated his artwork, he stood guard with a rifle until Eleanor Roosevelt intervened to save the statue.]
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/17/news/mn-11279
Of course it might be argued that he had lived in New Orleans for some time by then, hehehe... we serious about our art!

Ima Wizer said...

Love your "editorial" regarding Swine flu......you just have your way with words, don't ya! Excellent!

Editilla said...

Well Thanks youz, Miz'r Wizer!
I hope I have have what you got with the Masqued E'vinga!