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I’ve had this blog up and running on blosxom since 2003. Since 8/29/2005, things have changed quite a bit. While there’s nothing wrong with blosxom, I thought it was time to try something new. So I’ve gone to the ever popular WordPress software package. I really liked blosxom because it is lean and mean and […]

The US Army Corps of Engineers recently admitted culpability for the levee breaches that caused New Orleans to flood. It was barely a blip on the news radar. Too many people long ago decided New Orleans flooded because New Orleans was vulnerable. They bought the original line, trumpeted by the Corps, that the levees overtopped […]

One of the many things Katrina wrecked was my guitar equipment. I lost two amps — a Johnson modelling amp and a partice amp — and two guitars. The acoustic was decent but I really loved my electric. It was a Franken-guitar with an old Gibson Melody-Maker neck and an SG-type body. The body was […]

It’s been a while and I’ve been working a new job so not much time to say anything. Reading a lot of the New Orleans bloggers but I’m taking the long view and trying not to get wrapped up in the emotional side of things as much. Par for the Corps – Washington post editorial […]

Before this space devolves into a litany of non-stop complaints, I should point out some good things that have happened in the days since the US Army Corps of Engineers’ faulty levees burst. First and foremost, Jennifer and I are OK. We got out of New Orleans with all of our pets, all of our […]

Last week we got a little note on our car asking us to please not park in front of a certain house. Now under normal, Pre-K, conditions this sort of thing would probably be amusing more than anything else. Of course, that never happened in our mid-city neighborhood where street parking is(was?) at least as […]

It’s now three months after the storm and it’s hard to believe that this much time has passed already. First things first: Things are not okay in New Orleans. As a recent Time Magazine cover put it, “New Orleans Today: It’s Worse Than You Think”. The best one could say is that this will be […]

I added captions and descriptions to all the pictures posted up yesterday so you know what you’re looking at. We have started cleaning now and drove out to New Orleans East to see Jennifer’s other office. As many pictures as we have taken and it still doesn’t convey the breadth of destruction. The sights are […]

We came in Friday and got our first look at New Orleans an our home. We started taking pictures and a movie of the house as is for insurance purposes. Pictures cannot do this justice. Pictures can’t convey the smell or the entire atmosphere of the city. The odd emptiness that is everywhere. We usually […]

Got some new pics from Greg of our house up. Surprisingly, the tree that leans over the rear of our house did not fall in. So that’s a tiny bit of good news. There’s an extensive set of unlabelled pictures from Greg starting here as well. I may label some of them later. Mostly pics […]