Category: AV

Comedy Central has recently posted a ton of Daily Show videos to their Web site www.thedailyshow.com. One could spend hours browsing through the archive. I do miss some of those old correspondents. Anyway, I”ve embedded some of the ones that pertain to us below…

Forwarding it to everyone I know… Watch for the ‘wagon wheel’ cameo! More here, here, and here.

A couple Katrina-related videos that, in addition to being some tight grooves are also spot-on politically. George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People Mos Def – Katrina Klap (Dollar Day)

I was driving down Newton the other day and thought to myself, “New Orleans may have a lot of problems but at least it is the most integrated city in America.” And I took comfort in that. Then the next day, I happened upon this podcast which suggested that’s not such a good thing. Go…

Here is a great video that shows a model of the levee system I-wall when placed in a centrifuge to simulate the pressure placed on it during a Lake Ponchartrain storm surge.

I put the phrase “New Orleans” in my BitTorrent software and saw a few “Best Of Mardi Gras” CDs pop up along with this documentary by journalist Greg Palast, an interesting portion of which is available on YouTube. LSU’s Igor Van Heerten really impressed me in this clip. The transcript of the doc can be…

Some of you may remember this post from way back when The Chicory was just a li’l root. Now it seems the Times-Pic has followed up on it with a short and informative slide show of their own. I must say that the fruit peddler is a has a very Caribbean look. I wish y’all…

My favorite NPR show On Point with Tom Ashbrook did two excellent hours in New Orleans last week. Guests included Tom Watson from Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries, Leah Chase, Jazzfest’s Don Marshall, Tulane’s Douglas Brinkley, author of “The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast”, Times-Picayune columnist Lolis Eric Elie, and…

Dig those acoustics!