Bwahaha
CNN correspondent was just on camera at Children’s Hospital (uptown, near Audubon Park), standing outside trying to dramatize how windy it was, and while she was talking some dude in a grubby t-shirt...
View ArticleDo NOT watch CNN. They’re morons.
CNN has a reporter on the I-10 high rise over the Industrial Canal, and he is showing water to the south of him and calling it “catastrophic flooding of the port of New Orleans”. Look at this map, he’s...
View ArticleUh-oh
I got BoingBoing-ed. As Unapologetic said, “Great. We finally get on Boing Boing right when we stop talking about the storm to talk about lunch.” FYI, if you’re coming here from BoingBoing, most of us...
View ArticleBaton Rouge report
Got cell phone report from East Baton Rouge (Highland Road area) from my brother Billy’s Crackberry: “Windy as a MF! Ronnie is down 4 trees and part of his fence. Good news is we are on a generator and...
View ArticleJefferson Parish re-entry
Broussard is on 870 AM right now with info on re-entry timetable for Jefferson Parish. Tier 1 and Tier 2 people with placards can enter at noon today. If you’re Tier 2 and don’t have a placard, you can...
View ArticleFuck this fugee shit, I’m going home
Jefferson, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, St. John, and St. Tammany Parishes are all allowing residents back in at 6:00a.m tomorrow morning. Orleans, which was arguably the least damaged parish in the metro...
View ArticleMy kingdom for power and internet
All the way home just to learn to survive. No power in our neighborhood, no ETA on getting any. I drove up to Zotz on the rumor of AC and wifi and found it to be true. So did dozens of other people....
View ArticleElectricity is an anti-depressant
Last night I had to get up to refuel the generator at 3am. I use it for a CPAP since I have sleep apnea, so when it shut down I woke up real fast. Sleepy, using an LED lantern for light, spilled gas...
View ArticleCurfew shmurfew, I need groceries
As far as I can tell, the curfew doesn’t keep cars off the road, and doesn’t keep gangs of kids from congregating either outside bars or on random neighborhood corners. What it does do is make all the...
View ArticleVII
Athenae says “writing is only real on the first draft.” So here you go. === For the second time this year, and only the third time in my life, I am holding in my hands a book with my writing in it....
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