Rielle Hunter’s sister Elizabeth calls on John Edwards to take a paternity test, Edwards agrees to take a paternity test, but Rielle Hunter will not agree to submit her baby to having one. Edwards says he hired her to shoot (cringe worthy) “webisodes” for the…
Encounter with friendly Capital One professional “When I didn’t have a Capital One account I could come in here with a check written by a Capital One account holder and walk out with the full amount in cash. Now that I’m a Capital One account…
After watching Lee Zurik’s NOAH reports over at Your Right Hand Thief it occurred to me that New Orleans bloggers need their own TV channel. Zurik did a great job (I especially like the way he kept firing quesions at Nagin and the follow-through), and…
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…