othered
If any of you are on Gtalk, you’ll see that my away message all week has been “othered.” I didn’t want to blog about this because I felt if I did the people who have made me feel this way would read the blog and I’d get in trouble. Well that still may be the [...]
oh well…yay UK
So the Saints lost. Damn. But at least New Orleanians have Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest to focus on for the next few months. Lucky! Nothing much going on here except reading for exams, teaching, and counting the days til NYC! I’ve been on a Brit Flick kick [:)] and would like this moment to [...]
today's the day!
Check out the Saintsbeat blog tracking some fans’ trek to the windy city–complete with videos and pics!
video from last Thursday's march
Go here NOW! The guy who tells the story of being shot when he intervened during a burglary is my friend Steve. I saw him a few weeks after he had been shot and noticed the pain he was in. To know that nothing was done by the legal system infuriates me. Yet I still [...]
The Saints Are Comin'
I actually just bought the “real” video from I-Tunes the other day and cannot believe I’m coming across the live Superdome footage just now. Thanks Adrastos! A longer video clip than most due to them singing 3 songs, but worth every minute of your time!
different words for things that sound familiar
I’m home today trying to compose reading lists for my upcoming PhD exams. Drafts of these lists have already been written but I wanted to look at some other texts that I’ve purchased but never read yet to see if they would apply to my areas–trauma theory, history of rhetoric [with a focus on kairos] [...]
GEAUX SAINTS!!!
“The Deuce is loose” and “Run, Reggie, run!”
Editor B on AC 360
news from the march
the #s and words from the Times-Picayune: in just the last six months of 2006 — after much of the city’s current population had returned — murderers killed 106 people. If the population is 230,000, an optimistic estimate, that means the city has seen a rate of 90 killings per 100,000 people since last July, [...]
speaking of silence
The Army Corps of Engineers needs to NOT hide these things from us! Score another one for the NOLA bloggers.
silence is violence
I can never gauge who reads my blog, but if you’re in NOLA you probably already know about the march today on City Hall. If you’re from everywhere else, a site has been created to explain: Silence is Violence. This senseless crime needs to stop and our city leaders need to know that we won’t [...]
new course and new sources
I have to hit the hay VERY soon as it’s been a long day and one that started out very crappy, but wanted to share these finds. Thanks to my new friends in my second Carolyn Ellis class, Authethnography, I was turned on to the new media-focused books by Henry Jenkins as well as the [...]
awareness
CNN has got blogs on leaders’ minds and Pew Internet and American Life has social networking on teens’ Looks like everyone’s paying attention…nice work, folks! EDITED to include an Orlando Sentinel article as well
one block away
Just when I write about Cameron Blvd., another horror story is posted about a woman who lived a block away on Pasteur. So sad…and so like New Orleans that she would be on the same plane with Al Gore as my friend Rudy. That’s something I’ll never find in another city.
road home
This is what my street in New Orleans looks like these days. We went the Thursday after Christmas because my parents finally had a Road Home person coming to count rooms and take measurements to then send to Baton Rouge while we wait, yet again, to see how much money they’ll give us to rebuild [...]
jennifer coolidge
Turns out one of my favorite actresses lives and loves New Orleans. Here’s her 60-second interview with Chris Rose. People in L.A. would kill to be as eccentric as people in New Orleans are. And none of it is fabricated. There’s no pretense to it. It’s all authentic. This whole town is authentic. I love [...]
Jay Rosen on Placeblogger
The be all and end all of endorsements! Lots of great links too! And check out how many are linking to Placeblogger on Technorati!
placeblogger.com
Unbeknownst to me, Placeblogger.com launched into the New Year and my essay on Big Easy Blogs is up and ready to be enjoyed!