Monthly Archives: December 2006

please excuse

December 31, 2006 – 3:41 pm

the lack of blogging, yet again. Holiday travel has taken over my life as has a journal submission. The writing was done but it had to go online and it took me much longer than expected to freshen my FrontPage memory. Ugh! Off to a New Year’s eve celebration but will write of my sad [...]

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you and me

December 18, 2006 – 10:20 pm

Time says to take a bow! …look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the [...]

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depressing nola links

December 18, 2006 – 11:26 am

THE LONELY LOWER 9 Workers struggle to ID Katrina victims

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more Katrina-related deaths

December 13, 2006 – 8:38 pm

“Families blame more deaths on Katrina”: Friends and family say the deaths of many New Orleans residents were hastened by the stress and heartache of seeing their hometown ravaged and their lives upended.

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Saw Palm

December 12, 2006 – 11:39 pm

The first issue of Saw Palm came out today. My fiance Andy has a story published in it. It’s been lovely living with a fiction writer. I’ve learned so much and his dedication to his work is amazing. He just sent off several more stories this week and I can’t wait for more people to [...]

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GEAUX SAINTS!!!

December 10, 2006 – 11:32 pm

Who dat say dey gonna beat them Saints? Who dat? Who dat? And as they were beating the Cowboys tonight, I came across Chris Rose’s essay “Saints preserve us.” In it, he asks: I can’t stop wondering what life would be like around here if the Saints were 4-8 instead of 8-4. Or worse. What [...]

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the year without a santa claus

December 10, 2006 – 7:20 pm

A human version of the Bass and Rankin 1974 classic comes on NBC tomorrow night. My friend Lara plays the mayor’s wife and is featured in the first pic of the slideshow on the official webpage. Go check it out! Also, the extended preview is a dance number “challenge” between Mr. Heat Miser and Mr. [...]

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Fall 06 reflections

December 8, 2006 – 1:37 pm

otherwise entitled, why I think I didn’t blog much this semester! This semester started out quite stressful. I was teaching a new course and debating whether or not to take my comprehensive exams. I also had an Incomplete hanging over my head and a course in a new department. Of course, it all ended swell [...]

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patron saint

December 4, 2006 – 9:57 pm

Who knew the Vatican did such things? St. Isidore (c. 560-636) served as a powerful bishop in present-day Spain and is best known for his voluminous writing on a host of topics. His most influential work was the Etymologies, also known as the Origins, an encyclopedic tract in which he tried to record everything that [...]

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