I got tagged by Alan Cross. I’m only doing this because I don’t have anything else important to talk about. Classes begin tomorrow. Tonight I’m going to see Rebirth at the Maple Leaf in Uptown. And I just bought tickets to the Sufjan Stevens concert at the House of Blues on [...]

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I woke up Thursday morning to the news that Tropical Storm Chris had broken up and was probably not going to be a threat to New Orleans or the Gulf Coast. This was good news. I saw a CNN chart that explained by this time last year we’d already had 9 Atlantic named [...]

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My friend Doug from Tennessee tells me he used to be one of those guys who looked at us on the Gulf Coast and said, “I can’t believe these idiots live here knowing that the big hurricane is looming off the coast year in and year out.” Then he came back to New Orleans [...]

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