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One year ago today: Tropical Storm Arlene.

Check out this rather grim installment of PRI’s Open Source Radio, “New Orleans: Dead and Gone?” They called me and talked to me and almost used some audio from my Nine Month update, but I don’t seem to have made the final cut. They also interviewed me back in February, but again, no air time. [...]

I was just panhandled in front of my house, by a guy from the neighborhood who’s been working on the house across the street. This was a not infrequent occurence in antediluvian days, but this marks the first time it’s happened since the storm. He asked for $2.00. I gave him a buck fifty. I [...]

I’m feeling better — still a little under the weather, but getting better. The recovery may take much longer than the decline into sickness, but psychologically it’s much easier for me to cope when I feel a sense of steady improvement. Perhaps there’s a metaphor for New Orleans here? Oddly enough, I had almost exactly [...]

“This House Must Go” airs on TLC this week. Portions of this show were shot in our house back in April. Dates and times are below. I’m assuming that the times are Eastern.

JUN 10 2006 @ 10:00 PM
JUN 11 2006 @ 01:00 AM
JUN 17 2006 @ 08:00 PM
JUN 17 2006 @ 11:00 PM
JUN 25 2006 [...]

I feel like crap. Went to bed Saturday with a sniffle. Woke up Sunday with a sore throat. I thought it was allergies at first, but the way it’s lingering makes me think it’s a cold or something. I should have stayed in bed this morning but the noise of the renovation isn’t exactly conducive [...]

Xy and I were going to the library Saturday and decided we were hungry for lunch. We were passing by the Freret Street Festival and stopped there for some food. I was astonished to run in to so many New Orleans bloggers there: dangerblond, Maitri, Loki, HammHawk — I heard Ashley was there and also [...]

The folks at Minnie’s Catfish Corner figured out that I was the guy who posted about them to the MCNO website, and so they gave me a serving of their new bread pudding gratis. It was delish.

I’m not the praying type, but all the same I thought I’d pass on this prayer, written by Sr. Loretta McCarthy, SBS.

Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on us. You who hovered over the waters and brought all into being, grant us the grace to be people of peace and hope during this 2006 [...]

I urge every insurance policy holder in Louisiana to support SB 620 and HB 510. If you want to know why, read Michael’s impassioned address to our state legislature. (Well done, man!)