Library Chronicles

Yesterday afternoon brought more Carnival frivolity as Dad and Hombre attended the venerable Krewe of Carrollton parade with me. Hombre co...

In case anyone out there is living under a rock (a rock with a cable modem) I thought I'd drop in and point out that it is indeed Carniv...

"Poppers" via cursor

Your President , speaking elegantly as ever, "But all our Cabinet secretaries must realize that we will not be paying, you know, commen...

This week's Gambit interviews one of the authors of How to Burn Down the House: The Infamous Waiter and Bartender's Scam Bible by T...

Friday night is looking pretty bad. Pity since it rained on Oshun last year too . Also, NOLA.com's Mardi Gras page is better this ye...

Time to continue my phenomenal record of perfectly innacurate prognostication with the following NFL conference championship predictions. ...

A D.C. blogger has an enticing idea for a new.. um.. movement, so to speak.

Hellion is five already. Where has all the time gone?

Pretty good piece here on the importance of open source software for libraries via LISnews. If librarians aren't going to fight for f...

Lots of shout outs this week. January is apparently baby season.

Is anyone else out there in love with Annalee Newitz?

Via Angus Lind's tiresome "Deep Float" inanity. Also, Oyster is in the spirit. BTW, I coudn't agree more with his tak...

WWL is actually giving major play to today's Jazz Funeral for Democracy protest march, complete with multiple photos. Check it out. Wh...

Sorry, but when they're on they're on.

I guess anyone who reads the biggies has seen this already. Fun. So much to pick from but my favorite line is, "It's amazing what h...

Are we in Alabama yet? I know you don't hate me... much.

Big shock. Christian fundies continue to be disturbingly gay-obsessed. Meanwhile the LA State Supreme Court has reinstated the recently pa...

Folks who know where to go should drop in and bring greetings.

Let's just try to get through it with as little bullshit as possible. By the way, is anyone in town planning to attend the Jazz Funera...

Although I was out of town on Christmas, Nurse MacBeth was good enough to get this photo of my Tercel in the snow. 

Every New Orleanian has a short list. That is to say we all keep at the ready a list of assignments any first time visitor or transplant mu...

Oh this is delicious. Here Murph demonstrates his excellent facility with that highest of literary forms, the negative book review. I thin...

Sayeth the US weapons inspectors. Nearly one year to the day after claiming that this pencil doodle constitued a great and gathering threat ...

Oxford University scientists will carry out experiments on hundreds of people in a bid to understand how the brain works during states of co...

Onelook's new reverse dictionary feature . Pretty self-explanatory. I could have used one of these during all those years I drove myse...

Today, we received a solicitation from something called Tourism Guide basically asking us if we would like to be included in their publicati...

No means no.

In our moments of doubt and trepidation, we will no longer have GBV there to rescue us. We are infinitely jealous of those who actually wi...

Librarians ban book.

It was the black eyed peas. For a minute there I had convinced myself that 2004 was as screwy as it was because I had neglected to consume ...

Three days ago, Slumlords's lackey visited to, once again, replace the ceiling tiles in my kitchen and claim, once again, to have fixed...

Maddox: 11 worst songs of 2004.

Recently voted Grinch of the Year. washington, dc – The retailing giant Wal-Mart was named 'Grinch of the Year' in a national onlin...

After a while you learn to speak their language. They certainly aren't ever going to get the hang of yours. When a Patron says: ...

Three grown men and a dog drive nine hours in the cab of a pickup truck from Nashville to New Orleans. Halfway through the journey the must...

While it is common for news outlets to write prefab obituaries of public officials in order that they can make deadline in the event of any ...

It'd be a cold day in... well, New Orleans when it snows there. Apparently today was just such a day. It figures, I mean we had oyster...

But perhaps not if this is the field. Among his potential opponents, Nagin said, are Civil District Court Clerk Dale Atkins, City Councilma...

Well, he is running for governor.

Ok, Ricky , I think this one may be worse.

NORAD Santa tracking. And now, the weather. It's unnaturally cold in Nashville. Yesterday, I saw real snow for only the second ...

CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 21 - China's thirst for oil has brought it to the doorstep of the United States. Chinese energy companies are ...

We, the management of this publication, would like to express our deepest gratitude for/interest in/amusement at the overwhelming outpouring...

Or maybe down

Happy Birthday, Beethoven. Ode to Joy Update: Ha ha. link fixed. Last one was playing Waltzing Matilda

Here's an early suggestion for the regular Timshel Friday feature . It's sort of holiday themed in that it involves snow. Take a f...

12 Yats 12 Rummys 12 Boudreaux 12 Blogs

Good Christ. ORGANTOWN, W.Va. - May 5, the day that changed Aliakbar and Shahla Afshari's lives, began like most others. They shared co...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Nearly a million U.S. troops have been deployed for war in Iraq or Afghanistan since those conflicts began, acco...

Our library is closed today due to a... um plumbing emergency. As a result, I have been given the privilege of forfeiting an afternoon'...

A recent message broadcast over the library's office e-mail (which D and I affectionately refer to as the "text belcher") has ...

Timothy Ryan has gone from being a crappy economist to an even crappier chancellor. Allowing a campus newspaper to go under on your watch ...

Every time I think I've seen the worst thing I'll ever see, along comes the worst damn thing I'll ever see. Here is yet another ...

So I'm sitting here with my back to the Cowboys vs Seahawks MNF yawner trying to keep my mind off of the daunting work with which I have...

Atrios has one of those little ironies that hack sit-com writers seem to salivate over.

Hey look, it's the Publishers Weekly Book of the Year. Hint? what hint?

Now that eight US soldiers have filed suit over the Army's "stop loss" policy, I'm beginning to wonder out loud to myself ...

The following was meant for Oyster's comments section but unsurprisingly I went on and on a bit much for Haloscan's liking. If you ...

I missed GBV on Conan last night. Still pissed that they aren't taking the farewell tour to NO. But I guess that is this and so forth a...

Currently I am reading Gore Vidal's Empire . (I'm lazily making my way through all of his "American Chronicle" series.) C...

Second verse same as the first. More thuggery from our boys overseas. Super job, Rummy!

Except that it's apparently just us using banned weapons in Fallujah. Fifteen years ago in Halabja - at a time when Washington was an e...

Peter Finney, or the person responsible for writing his headline for him, with the full approval of his editor fearlessly describes a contes...

Oh it's a fun day in New Orleans. In what amounts to quite a two-fer we've had one assistant district attorney fired for extortion ...

A Hawaiian contributor to This is Broken complains that 7-11's website store finder provides directions to slightly less convenient loc...

Don't feel like celebrating? Maybe this will get you in the spirit. The BBC reports that New York City's child welfare department ...

The term "blog" has been chosen as the top word of 2004 by a US dictionary publisher. Merriam-Webster said "blog" head...

A week after reading that some neo-cons are now advocating pulling out of Iraq sooner than later, I see that we're now ordering up anoth...

Here is one of my heroes, Thomas Frank ( latest book here ), doing what he does best attacking the pseudo-liberal elitism that has married ...

First Daisy gets forced into hiding and now this. You guys make me so sad it actually bores me.

Yes I am just enabling this kind of behavior by linking to it. But you have to admit it is festive and holiday-ish. Be sure to check out t...

Really, this is obscene.

My family moved into our house in Gentilly in early 1989. When we bought the house, its floor plan was similar to several houses in that b...

Sure, it was wrong for Artest to run into the stands, and wrong for Jackson to run in after him throwing haymakers, and wrong for the fans t...

Yup You are a XSIG--Expressive Sentimental Intellectual Giver. This makes you a Teddy Bear. Hee! I just want to give you a big squeeze...

Jackson Square at some ungodly hour. Incidentally, this is the corner where I was unjustly ticketed by one of New Orleans' finest waste...

Now let's see if I can steal Sprint's bandwidth and link to the photo. Update: Guess not. Weird though since it shows up fine ...

It's about freaking time, you losers! Actually I love you all. Really. Especially the people looking for Barry Bonds homerun balls. Yo...

President pardons turkeys. Inadvertantly consigns them to fate worse than death. Real turkeys, Friedrich points out, can fly as fast as 50 ...

Legendary New Orleans prog-punk act Testaverde is slated to appear Friday at the Mermaid Lounge. All the cool kids are encouraged to atten...

Clinton Dedicates Clinton Library Kerry sat on $15 million in campaign funds for possible 2008 run. Actually the Clinton Library is ...

NYPress's Wimblehack, the jewel of the 2004 campaign season, names Elisabeth Bumiller its champion. A snippet: All campaign journalist...

Belongs, I think, to Rude Pundit whose.. um... idiom allows him to achieve a certain admirable clarity. via oyster

No competition. News junkies and chronic blog readers who aren't quite RSS geeks yet, take note. The Daou Report is here. From th...

30 minutes to go and Daisy is currently being harangued by the meanest rudest most ignorant person in the world who, flanked by a swarm of u...

Bush reverses his field and nominates Mini-Condi for Sec of State. No comment from Dr. Evil.

From Slate's Fred Kaplan The good news: Rice is among Bush's closest advisers, so foreign leaders will at least know that her word...

Safire out at NYT

Evil

Chris Rose spends game day with Jim and Hokie.

Juan Cole has some glance-worthy things to say about the transition at the State dpt. including Rice seems to me to have two major drawbacks...

Bad Photo Edition: It's been a busy work day. Here's the best I can do for you now. I may be back this evening. If not, you k...

Really I don't know what to say. It's just so ridiculous. And yet here we are again. For the third time , no less.

The latest Cursor Derelection page has many interesting links including perhaps the most relevant but largely ignored point , The question ...

We've been open less than five minutes and already, I've been confronted with a patron doing her absent son's homework for him. ...

Since it came up , I'm linking to these pictorial representations of the very narrow numeric gap between "red" and "blue...

The grandest civil engineering project of our lifetime is now the grandest repair job of our lifetime. Somebody call the little dutch boy b...