People toss around the term “carpetbagger” a lot, often Southern liberals (at least in New Orleans), and I think it’s odd given so many of the so-called carpetbaggers were actually trying to do the right thing: Although carpetbaggers often supported the corrupt financial schemes that…
It’s good to see Marc Ambinder caught Harry Shearer calling out Barack Obama for getting basic facts wrong about what Katrina did and didn’t do to New Orleans (and it’s not like Shearer hasn’t tried to tell the WH the score): “Hitting” New Orleans v….
Here’s a link to a .pdf of a 16 page booklet promoting tourism in New Orleans from 1948: [download#1]
A friend of mine who works at a historical museum in downstate Illinois sent this along. There are some hand written notations from the original owner of the document from her long ago visit to Nola.
Dirty Dozen, Glenn David Andrews, Hot 8 … Gregg Stafford with his hat trick. Good times …
Everett, Percival. I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009, p.195) Night fell and I awoke to find it unwanted and all over me.
Politco’s story about some Republicans growing concerned that crazy Republicans are becoming the face of the party (I could be snarkier, but …): Nor are Democrats strangers to having their crazy uncles take center stage. During the run-up to the Iraq war, for example, Reps….
I pass this house all the time. Finally stopped to take a picture. The Monet print, I assume, is covering a hole in the shutter. Update:
December 2005: October 2006: March 2007: February 2008: March 2009: August 2009:
Cheryl Wagner, author of Plenty Enough Suck To Go Around: A Memoir Of Floods, Fires, Parades, and Plywood, is being featured at the TPMCafe Book Club. Check it out.
Child #1: [Parent], no parent does that. You don’t have to do that. City Councilperson: … if they were not in my same situation they wouldn’t do it … but it sounds like a reasonable thing to me. Child #1: No it doesn’t. …
In 1958 young photographer Art Kane managed to assemble 57 great jazz musicians in Harlem for a portrait: I’ve thought for a long time it’d be great to do a New Orleans version of this photo. In fact, we could do a few variations: one…
When I was seven, my father set up in the backyard with a big sheet of plywood spread across a couple saw horses. He painted a mural of a barn the viewer could see through to a field on the other side. One time he…