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To my utter astonishment, Mike finally got a crew back to our house yesterday.
When I came home for lunch they were working away on a number of different loose ends.
I drew their attention to the whole house fan. It was installed in July and wired up in August.
It’s blowing the wrong way, much to the [...]

One of the most interesting things I got out of the Green Party of Louisiana convention on Saturday was a press release distributed by the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund. Strangely enough I can’t find this information on their website nor on the website for the International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, so I thought [...]

The travails of Senator Craig reminded me of a fascinating study I read in 1990 called “Tearoom Trade: A Research Update” by Frederick J. Desroches. It was published in Qualitative Sociology.
It’s a follow up to Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places by Laud Humprheys which apparently is a controversial classic from 1970. There are [...]

Well, qualifying ended yesterday for the October 20 election.
There were a number of half-hearted attempts to “draft” me at the last minute. There were also attempts to draft Karen Gadbois and Latoya Cantrell. None of us will be on the ballot.
I like the idea of people drafting a candidate. I’m not sure how often it [...]

When qualifying ends today (in two and a half hours from now) we’ll know if Latoya Cantrell is running for City Council At-Large. If she runs, she would have my full and unqualified support.

In anticipation of tonite’s massively hyped match between the Saints and the Colts, I’d like to draw your attention to ROX #82: The RCA State.
In this episode, we visit the famed RCA Dome, scene of tonight’s action. Note that this was shot back in 1995. But it’s still relevant, dammit. Watch it if you don’t [...]

Today is DJ’s birthday.

But today is also the first day of school for most of the Recovery School District. And DJ is a teacher in one of those schools. So, as you can imagine, he’s not partying today. He’s working hard for little pay and little respect, doing a job that everyone agrees is incredibly [...]

I guess today’s a good day to make the official announcement.
Xy’s pregnant. She’s almost into the second trimester.
Word sure has gotten around since I made the unofficial non-announcement. People are constantly asking me, “How’s Xy?”
So I will attempt to answer.
Xy’s doing fine. The intense nausea of the first few weeks was pretty bad. It seems [...]

I was hanging out with the neighbors across the street one evening, about a month ago. I was mostly talking to this older gentleman, a guy about 80, nicknamed Easy. We were sharing some Crown Royal and talking about all manner of things.
But as I was talking to Easy, I overheard a conversation amongst some [...]

MaPó called me Saturday afternoon to tell me John Scott had passed on. I never met the great sculptor, despite his close association with the University’s art department, and now I never will.
His works live on, though: down by the river, over on St. Bernard Avenue and right in the middle of the University’s main [...]

Now that Oliver Thomas has resigned, the New Orleans City Council’s At-Large seat will be on the ballot October 20.
The question is, will we get any good candidates?
It’s been extremely flattering to have had my name bandied about on the radio, on blogs, and in e-mails. People have urged me to run.
I would seem to [...]