Snapped a few photos of what the new Fischer development coming up over here in Algiers looks like. These houses went up pretty fast. I am sure they are better than the previous buildings that were there but can’t speak for how they will stand up to a hurricane. The first phase of the development…
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All Hail Genghis Glover
Most people probably recognized Anwan Glover from The Wire when he appeared on Treme as the OPP inmate who took Daymo “under my wing.” But since I just started The Wire season three in Cox OnDemand, I actually recognized Slim Charles in The Wire from Treme. Either way, he’s got a pretty amazing screen presence….
Return of the Hunter!
Some may recall this post last summer when a Huntsman Spider invaded my laundry room. Well, the weather’s getting warmer and Sunday night, another appeared. That’s 8-inch baseboard he’s on.
Credit Where It’s Due
In many previous posts on this blog I have ridiculed Nola.com for the numerous grammar errors and general lack of editorial oversight within its site. I know they frequently utilized temps and interns and they do make more mistakes than folks who are employed with bennies and what not. I am not sure if the…
‘I Hear Them All, I Hear Them All, I Hear Them All’
Oil Apologists
You have heard them. “If you drive a car back and forth to work every day than you should have expected this sort of thing to happen.” Or, “As long as you depend on oil, there are going to be accidents like this.” Well, no and no. Leaving out the fact that my shop and…
Blood of the Earth
I’m not sure if the BP Gulf Volcano has surpassed the Valdez in total amount but I am thinking it has. Even a layman would know a spill from a finite source (Exxon Valdez) would be a drop in the bucket compared to a gushing hole in the planet. Even though the fishing industry, oyster…
If You See A Long…
…driving a white Benz near the Shreveport area. Let him know peaps are looking for him. And ask him where the Deduct Box is. Shreveport police say the son of former Louisiana Gov. Huey P. Long is missing. Police say 88-year-old Palmer R. Long Sr. was last seen about 9 a.m. Wednesday leaving his residence…
Gingrich: New Orleans ‘testbed of gov’t failure’
So says he in the AP His scope is short-sighted though as he blames Bush for merely the response and not the many administrations that ignored the flood protection issue and the Army Corps who designed the shitty, undermined, I-walls. And it’s also short-sighted in that New Orleans also a testbed of corporate failure evidenced…
Ode to the Oyster
The oyster is celebrated with style here on Pacific Street in Old Algiers. Every year starting with a big shindig on New Years Day, we have a go at them with ravenous intensity. We even have an amulet, a gold oyster with a pearl Mardi Gras bead mounted in the middle to adorn he or…