back spasm #2
Haven’t been blogging because I shouldn’t be on the computer. Sitting is agony and guess I deserve it after a weekend of high-heel wearing for nearly 23 hours. The Rising Tide conference was awesome and I have a lot to post, perhaps later when I am sneaking in some laptop time from my bed and [...]
WE ARE NOT OK
where the streets have no bodies
Dave Winer has a poignant post about the Spike Lee documentary. I haven’t seen it yet either but am having my friends with cable taping it for me. I am sure I will see snippits this weekend when I am in NOLA and near a satellite dish with HBO. Like Dave, I have not been [...]
Silly Quiz
You Are a Blogging Expert You got 7/8 correct! You know so much about blogging, you should blog for a living. How Much Do You Know About Blogging?
Behind the failure to rebuild
Found this New Yorker article on New Orleans’ “Lost Year” [which is quite comprehensive!] from Ernie the Attorney’s post. I doubt I will blog much more before leaving for NOLA tomorrow. I’ll be in Mississippi for some of the time with my parents, then meeting the Rising Tide folks! Being the academic I am, I’ve [...]
credentials
Since I am presenting on the values of public writing and blogging to the TAs and FYC powers that be tomorrow, I thought I’d establish my credibility by labelling myself as a
elsewhere in the blogosphere
Way back when I didn’t have this USF blog, I created one on MSN Spaces to supplement the now defunct writingblog.org/doctordaisy. I don’t really visit MSN often, but thought of something I might have linked there and until I find it, I’ve decided to now link to my “Blogging” category there. None of the linked [...]
night owl in need of a library
This just sucks! Ever since I started at this school I’ve wondered how on earth a Research-1 institution could have such awful library hours. There are over 40,000 students at this school and it opens at 1pm on a Sunday? It really doesn’t matter I guess; half the time I do go, gangs of undergrads [...]
Salon on Spike & TV listings
I’ve only the energy to put the link up, but here is Salon.com’s review of When the Levees Broke. At 4 hours long, it’s the longest original film produced by HBO, and something tells me I might not make it through all 4 hours in one sitting. Reading all of this trauma stuff and applying [...]
Rising Tide poster
Mind the Blog
Maitri has a wonderful post up in preparation for the Rising Tide conference next week. I especially like this remark: New Orleans is not my domain, anyone on this planet can write about it, but I would encourage those who know it the most and can offer original perspective and news that really helps, whether [...]
Zumba
I don’t know how many of you readers know that I was a folk dancer until I traded in my boots for this academic game, but the only thing that still keeps me sane is dancing. Problem is, there is only so much dancing one can do in her living room. I’ve been taking Group [...]
A-TTEN-tion!
Tons of comments, links, and posts all over the blogosphere promoting the Rising Tide conference. EDITED to include Maitri’s post with more details about the schedule. I can’t wait! And I may soon be calling in the bloggers for help getting my parents’ house gutted.
the 12 days of things to do
I thought I had been keeping up a good reading and writing pace, but having just graded 20+ papers I realize that still I have a lot to accomplish this month: trauma lit review draft abstracts for journal articles revising New Orleans dialect papers [I'm thinking linguistics journals may be interested now post-K] presentation on [...]
trauma heightening
Recently reported, in “Stress building in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina anniversary could spark more problems,” was the story of a Times-Picayune photographer who “was seen driving wildly through the city Tuesday, attracting the attention of police. He eventually was arrested, but not before he was subdued with a Taser and an officer fired twice at [...]
newsworthy rant
OK I know that the Today Show is hardly the place to turn for hard news, but I’ve often listened to the first 15 minutes or so to get the headlines since I don’t have cable. Sometimes when I sleep late, I turn it on only to find that last hour of fluff (concerts, cookouts, [...]
Blogathon 2006 UPDATE
Blogathon for Pearlington was successful and I really recommend checking out the posts they made every half hour for 24 hours. They plan to maintain the blog even now. Two of their posts stick out to me: the one promoting The Katrina Collection, in which the artist “used fragments of old paintings, keys to my [...]
documentaries
In addition to Rudy telling his tale in “Fleeing Katrina,” numerous film documentaries have been/are being made in NOLA, which I find extremely important. Two are discussed in the Times Picayune here. I’ll have to find someone with HBO to tape the Spike Lee one for me. I haven’t returned to the difficult book I [...]
followup
Looks like I am not the only one thinking about the post traumatic stress in NOLA.
horror
Photographer: Charlie Riedel/AP When I was reading Douglas Brinkley’s The Great Deluge last night, I decided to check out the photo section in the back. While I felt numb when I read about people tying bodies to trees in Anderson Cooper’s book, when I saw this photo and realized that something like this happened with [...]
Rudy, you're a star…
Performing in this year’s Midtown International Theatre Festival is my favorite fabulous friend Rudy. The show is Fleeing Katrina, “A collection of monologues which tracks astounding journeys spawned by America’s most epic natural/manmade disaster.” And if you recall, I blogged about his evacuation story a lot last year. It opened this week and the reviews [...]
procrastinating trauma & poppy's temper
I finished an annotated bibliography today and have one more to go. This second one is the more serious of the 2 and will be the heart of my trauma theory lit review. All summer I’ve been jazzed about reading the stuff, then kept letting myself be distracted by examples [most recently the Douglas Brinkley [...]
Do they play jazz in heaven?
I was just forwarded this via email. It was filmed pre-Katrina and is beautiful. Go here for the info on it although the main thing you need to know is that it “features exclusively local New Orleans talent.”