Nix Bits

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 only seeing […]

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. — * I’m convinced that the “this part of the world” phrase, repeated often, was deliberately chosen to separate us from the rest of the […]

Like “Our Mayor”, Chief of Recovery Ed Blakely seems to have a way with words. And he has some local bloggers fired up. The discussion at Ashley’s is particularly lively. In the article Blakeley attacks local “buffoons” and the city’s racial polarization among other topics. A lot of people seemed to have taken his comments […]

So J and I were invited to a little shindig this past Saturday in the Marigny. We met a group of local residents we hadn’t met before in a social setting with food and drink. Where do you think the conversation turned? Inevitably, I found myself discussing with new friends our shared evacuation and post […]