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The projections for Ivan have been drifting westward, and now New Orleans is in the cone of possibility.
And it is a category five hurricane.
Dang.

I’m about ready to give up on Jean-Fuck Godard. I tried watching Alphaville a few years ago, but found it so excruciatingly boring that I couldn’t finish it. More recently I rented Breathless; it was watchable, but I can’t say I really appreciated or enjoyed it. (In fact, I’m almost embarrassed to admit that my [...]

Some of my friends seem to be living in a dream world. They hate Bush and are banking on a Bush defeat in November. Some of them are positively convinced he will lose. They see the president’s flaws so clearly that they cannot envision any other outcome. I’m afraid these people are in for an [...]

Xy and I went to see Jonathan Kozol speak at Loyola. He’s the guy who wrote Savage Inequalities; I’ve never read it, but Xy did when she was in grad school, and it made a big impression. Plus tonight’s a rare school night when Xy didn’t have any homework. So we went.
My boss told me [...]

Fifteen years ago today, I was arrested on the campus of Indiana University for not wearing clothes.
Even after all this time, I can’t think of anything more to say about the incident. I already said it all, in an article I wrote eight years or so ago for bc magazine, under the tutelage of Bill [...]

At the grocery store this afternoon, I picked up a six of Sapporo and a bottle of Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout. The cashier did not ask for my ID; they are required to enter a birthdate, however, and I noticed she’d put me down for January 23rd, 1945.
Jesus. Do I look like I’m pushing sixty? [...]

The convention was moderately successful, I think. But Xavier was a pain. Remind me not to do this again.
I’m exhausted.

People showed up after all, over 20 in fact. Andrea Garland and some others spoke about Get Your Act On! Sandra Hester talked about her school board campaign. I was impressed with Hester; her persona on her television show is clearly an act designed to popularize her agenda. When she spoke today, she seemed eminently [...]

Awrite, I got a laptop and projector set up in the room, put signs up around the building. Now it’s 9am, starting time for the convention, and there’s no one here. Except me. Seems like there’s only three or four people in this big old building. It’s kind of spooky.
Maybe people took note of the [...]

The Green Party of Louisiana’s annual state convention begins in a couple hours. I’ve secured a room at Xavier for the event, which was something of an ordeal in itself.
I’ll confess I’m a bit nervous. For one thing, I haven’t heard much recently from the actual organizer of the event; I think Lee may have [...]

Xy and I had dinner at Ralph’s on the Park. I think we just celebrated our 11th anniversary, albeit a couple or three weeks early.
A bottle of Gewürztraminer, Oysters Ralph, steamed mussels and fennel, roasted duckling, garlic chicken, pineapple crisp, theobroma, espresso… It literally brought tears to my eyes. It was that good.
(But remind [...]

Went to a forum at Grace Episcopal Church to hear the various school board candidates for my district. Only there was a typo in the paper: They got the Canal Street address wrong by five blocks. So I had to walk a little further, but my tardiness didn’t really matter. The forum was getting a [...]

My work on interlibrary loan and remote database querying is finally starting to pay off. I’m happy to announce that you can now retrieve a page from the Library of Babel at borges.rox.com. Working with such a large data set is a challenge, and there are a few bugs. I can specify the wall, the [...]