Nix Bits

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 Orleans only to […]

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 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 […]

A recent T-P series explains that we basically have 10 years to save Louisiana. Wow. People around the country have no idea what a big deal this is. To them. Not just us. My fear is that the set of people who already have written us off will see this series as simply more justification […]

I can barely breathe at work lately. But I’ve really needed to read some good stuff lately. I like Matri’s take on the Andres Duany article in Businessweek comparing New Orleans to cities in the Carribean. Steve Majors came to New Orleans as a cameraman working for NBC Nightly News after Katrina. It was supposed […]

Man, do I love Mardi Gras. We always have a grand time. This year added a special twist since it’s our first year in the new house just 1.5 blocks off of the St. Charles parade route. Needless to say, we had guests galore. Our house is really set up for entertaining and we did […]

I really don’t. I’ve been trying to keep up. There’s just so darn much. The crime, the mayor, the congress, the insurance companies, the Corps, the education system, the New Orleans haters … it’s all too much. I just don’t have that much anger to give. And I’ve been too darn busy. It’s easier just […]