You have to check out this PDF which is a photo essay of soon after Katrina and the most recent return to campus. I’ve walked through or taught in several of those buildings and it is amazing to see the devastation and renovation both on the same page. Amazing…
Found this blog via Metroblogging New Orleans and find its video post to be yet another wonderful example of the truth: what people in NOLA are facing as well as what the places look like, even those places nearby folks who have started rebuilding. Everything is so scattered and the binary that exists nowadays is [...]
My gal pal Sarah sent me this page since we’re going to the Madonna concert in July, and I find it hysterical that the bulk of it focuses on the history of the leotard [...the origins of the leotard go back to late 18th-century France when colored body stockings were the favored undergarments for the [...]
Received this email from the AOIR and felt I should share it because of the MySpace concerns I’ve blogged about. It is, like I am, more in favor of technological literacy and the First Amendment rather than being scared of the site, exploiting that fear, and focusing only on the people who use it for [...]
I attended a couple of sessions but recorded some of them on my i-pod instead of taking notes. The Writing with Video panel of Joseph Squier and Maria Lovett was amazing though and I wish I had the time and skills to pursue such a class. Looking at their site is enough for my schedule [...]
Thanks to all those who left comments on my last post. I’m still baffled that I cried so uncontrollably. I mean, I know I have reason to and I am not embarassed by it, but I was not expecting to be so affected by the thoughts of my NOLA. But that again proves I am [...]
I’m going to write about my time at the C&W conference backwards because I presented today and much of what I said in the final version of my Powerpoint was influenced by what I heard on Thursday and Friday. And the main thing I need to say off the bat is that I cried. Yes, [...]
Well, I have yet to begin writing my dissertation, but I am so happy with the topic and my outline that I cannot wait to get some feedback from the CandW crowd this week. And after reading “The Apparently Bearable Unhappiness of Academe,” all I can say is that I am so glad to be [...]
Well, Ray Nagin won a second term. Interesting…I don’t have anything against him, but I am surprised that Mitch Landrieu didn’t win just for the sake of needing a change…but like the presidential election, no one likes change in the midst of turmoil. Metroblogging had a great post on election-eve asking for readers to spread [...]
Can’t blog long…need to prepare for the conference this week, but having seen The Da Vinci Code this weekend and enjoying it–despite some minor changes to the ending, I wanted to research some of the rumors I had heard about albinos protesting the depiction of yet another evil albino. Here’s a summary of the protesting [...]
Nola.com reports the latest numbers of Katrina-related deaths. Here’s a passage I find most interesting: …weeks after it made landfall Aug. 29, Hurricane Katrina kept claiming Louisiana victims, often in more subtle fashion and often in other states: elderly and ill evacuees too fragile for grueling trips on gridlocked highways, infants stillborn to mothers who [...]
Back from a lovely trip to Chicago (where I saw my first Pearl Jam concert) and Winona, MN (AC’s college town and parents’ home) and am feeling ambivalent about my summer plans. Since I had to take that Incomplete, I know I will be reading a lot of good stuff, but there are still so [...]
I knew there was something I wanted to link to today! I read about Douglas Brinkley’s book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, in this month’s issue of Vanity Fair, which also features Anderson Cooper and a diary of his time in NOLA during and after Katrina. Here is [...]
OK after receiving the go ahead from my chiropractor to resume schoolwork, computer usage, etc., I composed 3 final papers in less than 10 days. I enjoyed the topics I wrote on, namely academic freedom and writing against that David Horowitz’s “Academic Bill of Rights,” but was wiped by the time it came to put [...]
