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  • Tales of the Future

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    Tough times at the local rag, as covered by the local crew:

    Gambit goes in search of a rose…”Rose’s departure from The Times-Picayune staff would follow several other high-profile writers who chose to take the paper’s voluntary buyouts this year, including Rose’s fellow columnist Angus Lind, veteran crime reporter [...]

    Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:09pm EST
    by celcus
  • Look Up (To See What's Coming Down)

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    What: Blogging 101 Class: An Introduction to Blogging for the Utter Novice

    When: Thursday, Nov. 12; 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

    Where: The Bridge Lounge, 1201 Magazine St

    Why: To Learn About Blogging and for Free Beer.
    [...]

    Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:37pm EST
    by celcus
  • Bears

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    adrastos has bears on the mind watching the latest offering by Ken Burns (a living genius, no seriously, he’s in the pantheon, documentaries have never been the same since Civil War) on the National Parks.

    While second rate Who songs are fodder for my own though process, this [...]

    Posted: September 30, 2009, 8:54pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Declaration

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    adrastos ask’s “does anyone want the job”?

    Just for the record.

    "I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President Mayor; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected" [...]
    Posted: September 18, 2009, 5:42pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Lollipops and Roses

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    In a great example of the “having your cake and eating it, too” school of development, developers for the Plaza sight in Eastern New Orleans are pushing the boundaries of the “public option”, otherwise known as TIF in a bid to have the city not only pre-pay for the [...]

    Posted: September 12, 2009, 9:50am EDT
    by celcus
  • Pull Out The Pin

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    Surprisingly, there is actually something Louisiana is ranked highly in that is actually good.

    In two years, Louisiana has leaped from 44th in the nation to second in the percentage of toddlers getting their shots on time. TP

    $10 bucks says if President Obama were to say vaccinations are [...]
    Posted: September 08, 2009, 6:33pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Magic Bus

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    In case you missed it, there is a new deal with the company currently running the RTA’s public transportation system. For almost a year the system has been run under interm contracts by Veolia Transportation, the US affiliate of the Global Veolia Transport, a French company. It runs the Jefferson [...]

    Posted: September 07, 2009, 9:27am EDT
    by celcus
  • Haben Sie gehört das Deutsche band?

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    You know, not many people knew about it,
    but the Fuhrer vas a terrific dancer.
    [...]
    Posted: September 03, 2009, 7:46am EDT
    by celcus
  • A Sort of Homecoming

    Number of comments: 4

    Time counts and keeps countin', and we knows now finding the trick of what's been and lost ain't no easy ride. But that's our trek, we gotta' travel it. And there ain't nobody knows where it's gonna' lead. Still in all, every night we does [...]
    Posted: August 29, 2009, 7:53am EDT
    by celcus
  • Shark Sandwich

    Number of comments: 5

    Rising Tide IV was by all accounts another stimulating and successful event. Particularly to be noted is that this conference has been cobbled together, not by an organization, but a group of individuals with day jobs, and scant experience in the “proper” way one plans and hosts such events. The [...]

    Posted: August 23, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Rise

    Number of comments: 1

    So there was an incident with a not so sane former City Councilperson attempting to educate the masses on the finest country club cocktail party conspiracy theories.

    Then there was the “Peoples Poet” the self appointed community “activist” crash the event and proceed to call the attendees wankers for not [...]

    Posted: August 19, 2009, 7:34pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Maybe The Poet

    Number of comments: 1
    I might have to start watching network television again

    [...]
    Posted: July 28, 2009, 8:25pm EDT
    by celcus
  • A Few Words In Defense Of Our Country

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    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,' [...]

    Posted: July 04, 2009, 5:15pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Yesterday and Today

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    The first Persian Gulf War in 1991 was a watershed event for CNN that catapulted the network past the "big three" American networks for the first time in its history, largely due to an unprecedented, historical scoop: CNN was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate from inside [...]
    Posted: June 20, 2009, 7:29pm EDT
    by celcus
  • June 16th

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    Happy Bloomsday!

    Okay, so this post is becoming a yearly thing. Folse has new content and a suggestion for some June 16th activities.

    As for me, much like last year, I’ve been rather busy. I didn’t make it to Dublin, or to Davy Byrne's pub for' [...]

    Posted: June 16, 2009, 7:35am EDT
    by celcus
  • Waiting For The Man

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    Nagin, who is in Australia attending a conference on climate change, told The Associated Press that after a series of offers and counteroffers, Chevron has accepted the city's bid of $8 million, which he said is the property's appraised value. TP

    So it appears that Nagin might actually accomplish [...]

    Posted: June 13, 2009, 9:16am EDT
    by celcus
  • I Ain't Got Nobody

    Number of comments: 2

    Gone, but never to be forgotton…I was blown away at his first and only 2002 Jazz Fest performance.

    Keith Spera has a great write up of the 7th ward original

    "Louis's ace-in-the-hole was Sam Butera," said Gia Prima, the fifth of Louis's five wives and the singer in [...]

    Posted: June 04, 2009, 8:21pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Death’s Door

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    Apparently a camel farted somewhere in Africa and the Corp(se) of Engineers assures us that we’re all going to die be safe, so we should all set our hair on fire and run to get in line now, fubar FEMA’s got the popcorn ready.

    [...]
    Posted: June 01, 2009, 9:48pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Crawling Back to You

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    A week after she was indicted on federal racketeering charges, former state Rep. and New Orleans City Councilwoman Renee Gill Pratt has taken an unpaid leave of absence from her job at Southern University at New Orleans. TP

    And the saga continues…

    Gordon Russell has a [...]

    Posted: May 31, 2009, 10:10am EDT
    by celcus
  • Follow The Leader

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    Less than a week after her indictment on federal racketeering charges, former New Orleans City Councilwoman Renee Gill Pratt has been named to the inner circle of advisers to the chancellor of Southern University at New Orleans. TP

    Where do you start with this?

    [...]
    Posted: May 29, 2009, 8:02am EDT
    by celcus
  • We Don't Need Another Hero

    Number of comments: 1
    C Ray has his bags packed.

    Mayor Ray Nagin plans to do some globetrotting

    Shortly after hosting a farewell gala this week for his departing recovery czar Ed Blakely at a posh downtown steakhouse, Mayor Ray Nagin will headline an academic program next month in Blakely's adopted hometown of Sydney,' [...]

    Posted: May 27, 2009, 7:54am EDT
    by celcus
  • Romance In Durango

    Number of comments: 3

    Renee Gill Pratt, a former state representative and New Orleans city councilwoman, was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on federal racketeering charges. TP

    "…sometimes God puts things in places for you." Renee Gill Pratt TP

    And sometimes that includes an indictment, a costly trial, and perhaps [...]

    Posted: May 23, 2009, 9:06am EDT
    by celcus
  • Until The End Of the World

    Number of comments: 2
    So a friend sent me the link to the trailer for the new Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men, All the Pretty Horses) novel film adaptation for his post apocalyptic novel The Road.

    While it looks like a promising flick to me, and I great;y enjoyed [...]

    Posted: May 19, 2009, 9:12pm EDT
    by celcus
  • For You Blue

    Number of comments: 6

    As if I needed another reason to stay the hell out of Metry, and as far from their main “street” which is apparently defined as a traffic snarled, exhaust choked no-mans land of national franchises and manufactured ambiance littered with trash and all the other detritus of suburbia, now with [...]

    Posted: May 15, 2009, 9:25am EDT
    by celcus
  • Crowing

    Number of comments: 1

    It’s always interesting when you can watch an election campaign unfold in slow motion before your eyes. Without even a fig leaf of secrecy we are getting to see the development of the inevitable wave of attacks against public enemy number one Stacy Head in the great patriotic war to [...]

    Posted: May 14, 2009, 8:07pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Television Man

    Number of comments: 3

    So it appears the star of The Ed Blakely Show, Ed Blakely himself, has announced he’s leaving the show.

    Back in October, rumors were ripe that the show would end its run, but the C Ray network remained dedicated to their much hyped star. I speculated that [...]

    Posted: May 06, 2009, 6:31pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Drop Me Off In New Orleans

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    I've posted this jam before, but it just seems to fit the Jazz Fest pause.



    Folse has the text of Perkins poem "New Orleans" up which gave me the idea.' [...]
    Posted: April 28, 2009, 5:39pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Sympathy for the Devil

    Number of comments: 1

    So yesterday we have the latest in the series of C Ray “dummkopf “ Nagin story.

    As Alan Sayre of the AP depicts it, the walking Id turned down a wad of cash for no good reason, when Six Flags offered 14 million to walk away from the [...]

    Posted: April 24, 2009, 7:00am EDT
    by celcus
  • Look Up (to See What's Coming Down)

    Number of comments: 1

    "I've told people . . . if their quality of life hasn't changed post-Katrina, they need to be looking somewhere and figuring out what's going on." - David Welker, new local FBI chief TP


    "We discussed the relevance of the mayor's request to our purpose and decided" [...]

    Posted: April 23, 2009, 11:42am EDT
    by celcus
  • Good Times Roll

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    With all this talk of tea, this is what came to mind for me.


    This quote can be applied to a lot things these days:

    “The press grabbed hold of the wrong end of the stick and started to beat about the bush with it...”

    [...]
    Posted: April 17, 2009, 6:25pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Thick As A Brick, Radio Edit

    Number of comments: 2
    A little history...

    First we were met with the planning eggheads in their ivory towers. The ULI “plan” produced shortly after Katrina, aka the “green dot” plan, wasn’t much more than a collection of loose ideas, and ham handed at best. Then came the Bring New Orleans Back commission, which [...]

    Posted: April 06, 2009, 10:30am EDT
    by celcus
  • Thick As A Brick, Part 2

    Number of comments: 1

    To continue…We are back to the major goals. I cited “Recognize the city’s historic character…” in my previous post, so I’ll stick with that. From the goals we get to the “Actions”, as if they haven’t inundated us with “action” words enough already. Here are a few:

    Coordinate economic development [...]

    Posted: April 05, 2009, 10:22am EDT
    by celcus
  • Thick As A Brick, Part 1

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    So, more on the draft of the Master Plan. While I discussed some of the interesting bits of the implementing and of the overarching “plan” I am now going to give you an idea of one of the major sections. It got rather long so it will be divide [...]

    Posted: April 03, 2009, 9:15am EDT
    by celcus
  • Arousing Thunder

    Number of comments: 1

    Something about the weather today seems to fit the mood and the man.

    In honor of the late Ashley Morris I repost one of my favorite of his posts. Sure FYYFF and Sinn Fein get the lime light, but lets not forget the small ones like these, that [...]

    Posted: April 02, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
    by celcus
  • No Certainty Attached

    Number of comments: 1

    I’m still perusing the newly released draft of the new Master Plan, and I am blogging some notes on what I’m finding. I discussed some of the interesting bits of the implementing of the overarching “plan” in my last post, now here is an overall impression of the bits [...]

    Posted: April 01, 2009, 2:53pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Suspended in Gaffa

    Number of comments: 5

    I’ve started to peruse the massive heap of PDF’s of the newly released draft of the new Master Plan as mandated by the October Charter change. I encourage you all to look over any aspect of it that grabs your attention. This is really more than one person can [...]

    Posted: March 30, 2009, 4:35pm EDT
    by celcus
  • 9 Volt

    Number of comments: 2

    Oyster keep promising us some kind of Dr. Manhattan moment or at least some kind of earthshaking atomic blog post.

    Sorry, but Blogs are closer to 9 volt batteries than atomic piles. Nothing released on a blog is ever really earthshaking. If it was it wouldn’t [...]

    Posted: March 18, 2009, 3:13pm EDT
    by celcus
  • Let’s Get It On

    Number of comments: 4

    While Schroder pines for the second coming of Jim Leten, and Oyster awaits the rapture of the “corrupt”, there are other things afoot around town. And one of the purposes may be to defang and derail just such events.

    Recent events seem to indicate the first onslaught in [...]
    Posted: March 04, 2009, 12:11pm EST
    by celcus
  • Gone

    Number of comments: 0

    Representative Cao might just have done more to help the recovery of the city in a month and a half than Bill Jefferson did three and a half years.

    Douglas Whitmer, the chief of staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Louisiana field office, has been asked to take a' [...]

    Posted: February 27, 2009, 6:12pm EST
    by celcus
  • What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

    Number of comments: 1
    Yes, I am posting this simply for the song title reference, but it is pretty damn funny, particularly if you are a fan of 30 Rock.





    And Oyster gets the h/t. [...]
    Posted: February 26, 2009, 1:56pm EST
    by celcus
  • The House We Used To Live In

    Number of comments: 0

    One last serious note…

    The following item ran in today’s TP

    Mayor Ray Nagin has signed a long-awaited agreement that should finally allow the transfer of more than 4,500 storm-damaged properties from the state's Road Home program to local control so they can be redeveloped. TP

    Now this' [...]

    Posted: February 20, 2009, 4:36pm EST
    by celcus
  • Deuce

    Number of comments: 0
    We knew it was coming...TP


    Will #26 be in the rafters with the likes of Rickey Jackson, Archie Manning and Jim Finks one day? [...]
    Posted: February 18, 2009, 4:38pm EST
    by celcus
  • The Big Sky

    Number of comments: 1

    Karen picked it up first, but then she has a connection to it, but I would like to reiterate the good news that the terminal at Lakefront Airport (originally Shushan Airport) one of the cities tarnished (more like encrusted) gems is going [...]

    Posted: February 11, 2009, 5:31pm EST
    by celcus
  • Total Trash

    Number of comments: 2

    Garbage Begins Piling Up In French Quarter

    February 3, 2009

    Excited residents of the French Quarter were met with another sign that the city is finally returning to normal after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

    The streets of the French Quarter are again littered with garbage.

    In [...]

    Posted: February 03, 2009, 10:22am EST
    by celcus
  • Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book

    Number of comments: 1
    An Austrian pastor who has been quoted as calling Hurricane Katrina God's punishment for sin in New Orleans is being promoted to the rank of bishop. TP

    He is a vengeful God…with terrible aim.


    ' [...]

    Posted: February 02, 2009, 4:12pm EST
    by celcus
  • Imagine a Man

    Number of comments: 9

    Oyster rounds up some of the blogger reactions to the resignation of Inspector General Robert Cerasoli which reads much like accounts from the bridge of the Titanic as they assessed the damage and number of lifeboats. We are all doomed.

    I’ve noticed the general consensus around town seems [...]

    Posted: February 01, 2009, 10:25am EST
    by celcus
  • No Language in Our Lungs

    Number of comments: 1

    I’m noticing that “Katrina” is taking on a new meaning of late. Just this morning the TP ran an article on the NADA convention and the address given by former Presidents Bush (the elder) and Clinton.

    Clinton and Bush evoked the image of Hurricane Katrina to describe the level [...]

    Posted: January 27, 2009, 2:38pm EST
    by celcus
  • True To Life

    Number of comments: 0
    Today's exercise is to compare and contrast the following quotes:

    Outgoing President George W. Bush said he is willing to explore ways he could help with Gulf Coast recovery after he leaves office. TP

    "When things have settled down a bit I will pursue'" [...]

    Posted: January 26, 2009, 12:04pm EST
    by celcus
  • 8 Mile Road

    Number of comments: 3
    “…streets are places of social and commercial encounter and exchange. They are where you meet people - which is a basic reason to have cities in any case.” Allan Jacobs

    With three abstract pieces already installed, Jefferson Parish officials are calling on more sculptors to help turn cluttered thoroughfares [...]
    Posted: January 14, 2009, 10:34am EST
    by celcus
  • Putting Out Fire

    Number of comments: 2
    I’ve got this morbid fascination with Christian religious leaders (and those claiming some sort of Christian moral high ground) who in their zeal to follow Christ actually turn out to more closely resemble the villains of the New Testament; the Pharisees, Sadducees, Romans, money changers, etc.

    The Universal Church or [...]

    Posted: January 10, 2009, 5:39pm EST
    by celcus

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