Here’s the screenshot of Barack Obama’s NowDoThis page when he woke up this morning:
(garfield minus garfield via 3quarksdaily via Suspect Device) garfield minus garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep in the mind…
We took a drive over to the Chalmette Battlefield to get a look at the River. Sure enough, splotches of fuel oil #6 had been deposited along the shoreline. Didn’t see any endangered wildlife. But some boats are moving through …
When I listen to the radio I’m pretty much always tuned to community radio, usually WWOZ or much less frequently WTUL. I accept that the range of music will be wide and not always to my liking (more New Orleans jazz and funk, thank you…
I try to vote for Bobby Jindal as much as I can. Not real votes, of course, just those online polls asking if he should be John McCain’s choice for VP. It’s part entertainment value, part desire to see him flounder on the national stage….
G Bitch and I will be there Saturday morning. I’ll be working two cameras to be sure I effectively document the fate of Michael Homan. Update: Alas, I got there late and without G Bitch. I did see Homan, and though he mentioned the heat…
From the G Bitch Spot, here’s an excerpt from her excerpt: When D.C. was teetering on the edge of insolvency in 1996, Congress forced the city to cede much of its home rule authority to a Control Board, which removed the superintendent of schools and…
In 2000 I had the good fortune to shoot pictures of a UNESCO conference called, “Breaking the Silence: Teaching the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” hosted by Tulane’s Deep South Regional Humanities Center. One of the featured events of the conference was a tour led by Walter Johnson, author of the 1999 book Soul by Soul*. He took us to major sites of the slave trade in New Orleans, as well as a tour of Evergreen Plantation. I recently came across those negatives and decided to finally read his book. Here are a few excerpts:
(source: New Orleans Public Library) Louis Armstrong from Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans: That neighborhood [Back ‘O Town] certainly had a lot to offer. Of course, we kids were not allowed to go into the Funky Butt, but we could hear the orchestra from…
We caught the Uptown Swingers Social Aid & Pleasure Club (love those pink suits!) featuring the To Be Continued Brass Band on 2nd and Dryades. Yes, damn hot. I suspect this might be the last secondline parade we see for a couple months.
I don’t watch much baseball anymore (okay, hardly/if any), but even I know this is embarrassing in the extreme: LSU had scored a run and had the bases loaded but UC Irvine second baseman Casey Stevenson snuffed the rally by pulling the hidden ball trick…
I’ll provide more impressions tomorrow, but here’s video of me asking McCain if he would debate in New Orleans: … and here’s his whole speech: … meanwhile, I appear briefly tonight as Mister at the G Bitch Spot.