Category Archives: new orleans
A Howling in the Wires
Last month’s Poets and Writers had a neat little article about the state of writing in post-Katrina New Orleans (including a shout-out from fellow Franklin alum Brad Richard about Do You Know What It Means). My writing “career” (shee-it, careers pay money) didn’t start til Katrina, but this quote from John Biguenet’s essay “The What [...]
Chasing the oysters
I had me a little oyster-grief panic attack this week. First came the news Thursday that 134-year-old New Orleans institution P&J Oyster company was ending its shucking operation immediately. Also mentioned in that article was the possibility that Felix’s will likely be closing its oyster bar in the near future. I decided I better go [...]
New Orleans food in Austin, Chapter I: Sambets
[Pre-disclaimer: This has been sitting in my unpublished drafts since before the BP oil spill turned so catastrophic. My heart isn't into writing anything like this at the moment but I figured since I already wrote it I'd put it out there.] [Disclaimer: For my Austin peeps, this isn't personal, I pretty much trashed most [...]
Too blue to fly
I’m sitting here in my bed poking around on the innerwebs, I hear a far off whistle, and I’m thinking to myself how nice it is to be close to the river again so that I can hear the sounds of ships at night, the sounds that I used to fall asleep to when I [...]
Cease and Desist
You are all hereby put on notice. Any further use of gumbo metaphors, related to Treme or otherwise, will be met with Cease and Desist orders as per the “Gumbo Metaphor Non-Proliferation Act of 2006″. That is all.
Curfew shmurfew, I need groceries
As far as I can tell, the curfew doesn’t keep cars off the road, and doesn’t keep gangs of kids from congregating either outside bars or on random neighborhood corners. What it does do is make all the stores close at 8:00pm. Which sucks when you threw away everything in your fridge last week, the [...]
Electricity is an anti-depressant
Last night I had to get up to refuel the generator at 3am. I use it for a CPAP since I have sleep apnea, so when it shut down I woke up real fast. Sleepy, using an LED lantern for light, spilled gas everywhere obviously. This morning it ran out of fuel again at 8. [...]
My kingdom for power and internet
All the way home just to learn to survive. No power in our neighborhood, no ETA on getting any. I drove up to Zotz on the rumor of AC and wifi and found it to be true. So did dozens of other people. When I get home, I get to rig up a security system [...]
Fuck this fugee shit, I’m going home
Jefferson, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, St. John, and St. Tammany Parishes are all allowing residents back in at 6:00a.m tomorrow morning. Orleans, which was arguably the least damaged parish in the metro area, is holding residents out until midnight tomorrow night. This is ludicrous on several levels. One, that they would keep us out later than [...]
Do NOT watch CNN. They’re morons.
CNN has a reporter on the I-10 high rise over the Industrial Canal, and he is showing water to the south of him and calling it “catastrophic flooding of the port of New Orleans”. Look at this map, he’s on the I-10 bridge facing south: http://www.google.com/maps?q=New+Orleans,+LA,+USA&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=30.002182,-90.027916&spn=0.009756,0.022745&t=h&z=16 He’s showing water covering that industrial gravelly area over [...]
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