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Ethan Brown gives me and this blog mention in the Guardian.

I thought painting trim was a pain, but staining trim in place is a royal bitch.

Some guy named Bart from Indianapolis spoke at a local conference and got on the front page of today’s paper.

I’m not sure what the game is, exactly, but I noticed this blog links to an old post of mine; it looks human at first but a quick scan thru the site confirms it’s being compiled by robots.

We had about 16 trick-or-treaters pass by our home in Mid-City tonight, up from ten last year and zero the year before that.

Southern Leftist says Jordan’s going down this afternoon; nola.com confirms he might resign very soon.

Parenthesis Eye reports on the panel discussion in which I participated last week.

Something tells me this list shouldn’t be posted in the clear.

The YatPundit posts a scorching yet thoughtful account of a neighborhood meeting in New Orleans.

If you tried to leave a comment here in the last 24 hours you probably got an error message, but I just fixed that problem — I think.

“The media… is where democracies conduct their civil wars.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, 2004

I can’t make it to Jena, Louisiana, tomorrow so I will be wearing black to show support for the Jena Six.

My expectations for K-Ville were extremely low. (I get exposed to more than my fair share of bad police dramas because of Xy’s execrable taste in televiewing.) I was pleasantly surprised that K-Ville wasn’t as bad as I’d imagined it would be.

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.

Fiore skewers Nagin.

Somehow when I wasn’t looking, this blog made it to the rank of Crawly Amphibian in TTLB Ecosystem. Thanks for all the links, folks. I’m sure I got a (totally unexpected) boost from being listed amongst the 2K Bloggers. However, I note I’m still far behind Library Chronicles. Is there no justice?

Note to self: Laphroaig is too peaty for my palate. Ugh.

I’m attending the 2007 MERLOT International Conference, right here in New Orleans.

Fluoride has been restored to New Orleans’ drinking water, but maybe that’s not such a good thing.

Today is the first day on the job for my new boss.