Overheard: an historic walking tour of a “post-racial” French Quarter in a Bush Dynasty’s future America.
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What Would Jesus Drink in the French Quarter on Mardi Gras in the last year of The Bush: bourbon or ice water?
“Everywhere, a thick carpet of migratory butterflies. Dead.” New Orleans recovery notes by Jim Gabour.
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I hope someone filmed the productions of Waiting for Godot director Paul Chan put on earlier this month in the open air of New Orleans. Wendell “Bunk” Pierce as Vladimir and J Kyle Manzay as Estragon, holding forth while waiting for that which will never come amid the slumped houses, skeleton trees, post-Katrina emptiness of [...]
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Mr. Dilbert: They said they couldn’t insure my house. I got nothing. It’s hurricane season again and I’m living in a FEMA trailer with my sick wife!
The New Orleans: Labor of Love project is a grassroots public-awareness campaign that’s working to get volunteers down to New Orleans to help rebuild homes in the worst-hit areas [...]
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Longtime New Orleans resident and writer and film director and general production guy Jim Gabour has been writing for the British site Open Democracy for a few years, usually about life in his hometown post-Katrina.
His most-recent post is a gem of a report from the set of an Uncle Ben’s Rice commercial filmed by [...]
Former FEMA director Mike Brown says Bush told him to lie…
By Zoneil Maharaj, September 1, 2006 1:13 pmMike Brown took the blame for the government’s lack of action during Hurricane Katrina last year, and was removed from his position as FEMA director. Bush’s old buddy Brownie is now saying he was a scapegoat and Bush told him to lie:
O‘DONNELL: So let me get this clear. Someone in the White House was telling [...]
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Slate magazine today posted a collection of Katrina memoirs written by four students from Walker Charter High School in New Orleans. The teenagers and their families rode out the storm but were evacuated later after the floodwaters overtook their neighborhoods. Here’s a sample from Vickey Brown, 17:
I ran all the way home. I was yelling [...]
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Cheap Thrills: Obama’s Texting Blitz From an Ad Girl’s Perspective
Bush Plays Beach Volleyball While the Post-American World Burns. Max Zimbert takes him to task.
Obama’s Looking to be the ‘Text’ President. Torey Van Oot dissects the strategy.
Plagiarism: Does the Medium Define the Word? Chris Nelson poses the question to some people with answers.
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Britney, Russell Brand, and the elephant in the room. 
Shazia Haq: The Boredom’s Are Anything But Boring
From Shaft to Chef, we bid adieu to Isaac Hayes, cool before cool was cool.
Tricia Romano muses on her time spent watching the late Bernie Mac, and how he got her through a self-imposed social exile.
Geek Love: I am an GTD Geek, Hear Me Roar.
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