Nix Bits

So we’ve had a couple of the wife’s relatives in for visits the past few weeks and had a good time all around. We took brother-in-law #1 to Jacques Imo’s for dinner where he had a stuffed pork chop roughly the size of his head. Per his own request, we took him on […]

Seems those crime cameras aren’t so effective. But at least they make people “feel secure.” Now if they could just figure out how to get them to generate revenue….

So Ms. Skenazy let her kid take an independent ride on the Subway and lots of parents are just up in arms at the idea. I seem to remember having a lot more latitude than kids have today. Now, I’m not a parent, but it seems like today more and more parents just want […]

Dr. Ashley Morris passed away yesterday unexpectedly in Florida. I never had the opportunity to meet him in person but I am nonetheless stunned and saddened. He was loud, proud, funny and one of our city’s most passionate advocates. I read his postings nearly every day and regret never having met him […]

Celcus tipped me to this post by Karen Gadbois.  She’s been up in D.C with several other locals and they gave it to Donald Powell. I’ve said it before that I wish we had at least one local or state official with enough backbone to tell Mr. Powell that he is no longer welcome in […]

So today is our 3rd wedding anniversary. It’s an unfortunate reality that our wedding anniversary will be closely associated with the Katrinaversary, falling just one week later. That first anniversary we were shell-shocked, evacuated in Jackson, MS. We had had reservations at Bella Luna, the place where we had tied the knot. […]

It’s two years on and that’s hard to believe. In the great elsewhere, Katrina is old news. Here in New Orleans, we live it every day. In the past several months, I’ve often sat down thinking I would send some missive or reflection about the current issue of the day in New […]

So we’re at the height of hurricane season. One good way to retain your sanity is to have a clear plan and any clear-headed plan means evacuating. Michael Walker recently posted his google maps mash-up www.contraflowmaps.com to the New Orleans Linux User’s Group mailing list and asked people to publicize it.  It’s really well done […]

This weekend was the first opportunity I had in a while to take the “devastation tour” because I had a co-worker and his wife coming from out of town this week. I decided to haul them out through Mid-City to Lakeview to New Orleans East, and then back. I explained that they were […]

Read this post at YRHT and you can begin to understand how people “in this part of the world”* know that George Bush and his government doesn’t care about Louisianans.
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* I’m convinced that the “this part of the world” phrase, repeated often, was deliberately chosen to separate us from the rest of the country and […]