Library Chronicles

Good: WYES is broadcasting over the air again Bad: Fucking Antiques Roadshow is on.

Saints to play 2006 schedule in Louisiana

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Welcome to New Orleans. Don't expect much help. Don't get out of line. And for God's sake do not brandish any kitchenware in pu...

Late December and this traffic light at the corner of Napoleon and St Charles is still down.

C'est Moi With Bush's defense of his wiretapping, the hidden state has stepped into the open. The deeper challenge Bush has thrown d...

Script in progress: Tom Benson's Christmas Carol with: Arnold Fielkow as Bob Cratchit Michael Lewis as Tiny Tim Paul Tagliabue as Mar...

Just in time for New Year's Eve. Boy did 2005 ever suck!

Crappily uploaded for your pixelated pleasure.

I dunno... maybe we ought to have a Mardi Gras this year if this keeps up. Sunday afternoon, during the fourth quarter of the latest Saints ...

In this case "letting the residents decide" means, we'll allow you to come back, but we won't support you, won't do a...

Still not near enough money. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush will request $1.5 billion more to help rebuild the levee system in New Orlean...

I'm starting to come down on the "let's not have Mardi Gras" side of this argument... not because I'm worried about ...

The Brookings Institute has released " the first in a series of monthly snapshots " of the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans whic...

As a child, I first learned to handle standing in a long line with grace by reading that slogan as well as the assorted news clippings and p...

Going on in the links here. Still no time to finish the project in one day.

Hours after New Orleans officials announced Tuesday that they would deploy a city-owned, wireless Internet network in the wake of Hurricane ...

Reason number two hundred million not to stick around during a storm: You may be suddenly abducted by soldiers and forcibly shipped to Utah ...

But then what day isn't in De Kalb, Ill?

From Loki

I was going to post a "shame on wwl for putting this bloviating crap bag back on the air" rant but Dave Walker's column handle...

Won't be back to heavy posting until I get internets at home. By the way, is anyone able to connect to the city's downtown free wir...

The feds continue to treat our people like utter garbage . The Federal Emergency Management Agency pulled all its workers out of New Orleans...

Mall manager just doesn't get it.

To help boost its stalled economy, hurricane-ravaged New Orleans is offering the nation's first free wireless Internet network owned and...

City is expected to announce this today. Would be a nice alternative since I still can't get Cox out to my place. Of course, then I...

Sorry, kids.. still don't have internet access at home and I'm far too busy at work to say anything meaningful here. It's a tem...

FEMA is moving in to set up a disaster recovery center inside the library. They have brought with them a squad of employees of the famous B...

This is what makes me sad.

A slight reduction in activity on this site in the past two weeks. Don't fret. This is only a temporary situation. I'm a bit frus...

If these store owners are to be believed, then typically apathetic New Orleanians are more class conscious than they are assumed to be. Th...

Audubon Zoo to reopen after Thanksgiving.

I can't decide what's funnier, the thing itself or Pope Horatio Tyrannosaurus Nixon Rex's commentary thereupon.

Your library is open, folks. We're nothing near to normal but what is? We are running two branches and the main library with the most ...

Oyster links and reproduces the text of an op-ed piece by Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities director, Michael Sartisky. Um.. it's ...

They're hypocrites. A double standard in the code of conduct required of owners vs employees is demeaning and reprehensible... also pro...

First, don't miss James Gill's column today for this nugget. Far be it from me to knock anyone who buys a full-page ad in The Times...

Posed here by Richard. New Orleans' citywide curfew starts at 2am, right? But this is the weekend that Daylight Savings Time ...

When babies acted like babies And so did the grown-ups. Today's Halloween rerun is last year's Halloween party! (may have to scroll...

The 2005 New Orleans Book Fair will indeed happen. Back in happier times, I thought we would do well to open a neighborhood branch on Oret...

Since we got a blurb in today's T-P Metro section, I suppose it's not confidential info anymore. We're planing to open the Main...

This also happened to me. Tooker admitted that the lack of her own favorite comfort food has driven her to distraction: "There's n...

Yesterday, Bush was forced to reinstate Davis-Bacon and now today there's this. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Thursday accepte...

I can't wait. It's like Christmas Eve. Now what will Old St Fitz leave under our tree? A Scooter? A Rove? How about a Big Dick? T...

Yeah, pretty much a dirty word in these parts. Kos

I am crawling through muck and mold looking for salvageable dvds and inflatable tigers. Meanwhile it appears that Rudolph is doing something...

They sure aren't rushing to help us. BFOP points out a possible perfect storm scenario for the Americans who don't give a shit whe...

Drunk... using Daisy's appartment until they turn the power back on at my place... means I get to use her stereo... don't be told wh...

Here's a creative proposal for dealing with the housing issue in New Orleans. Authorities would locate scattered homeowners to determin...

Unsurprisingly, I'm not the only one to think of this . It really ought to happen.

Also: http://tombensonisabum.blogspot.com/

Yup, I'm one of these people. Particularly annoying when you're the only building on the block without power.

The parking lot at East New Orleans is full of these. Oh and yes, Virginia, Skookses do float . I managed to rescue the little guy myself....

This Times piece paints a rather bleak picture. I don't think it has to come to that. There will not (or at least should not) be as mu...

Quote is from Jim Henderson's commentary yesterday. Big Shot says all there is to say.

Spent yesterday afternoon crawling through the muck and mold that has become the Keller branch looking for anything we could hope to save. ...

Tropical storm warning; U.S. Gulf Coast likely threatened

The city is not safe. Tourists on Bourbon street are subject to random acts of violence. Citizens are harassed and bullied as they go abou...

If it is okay to lift the midnight curfew , what exactly is the point of a 2-6AM curfew? Who is going to benefit from four hours of people f...

New citywide art project in the spirit of the fish thing. Festival of abandoned fridges. I've noticed folks have been scrawling messa...

I don't have a whole lot of time to detail my experience since returning to NO. There's a lot to say which I will get to... but not...

Baltimore is alright. Certain things here are very much like home. The nice parts of town exist in close quarter with the trashy parts. B...

Might be longer back to work process than we bargained for. Up to 3,000 city workers may lose jobs Going home anyway.. probably this week s...

So I'm in Baltimore. Actually decided to drive the Tercel nearly 700 miles in one day figuring I'd make the most of final days of e...

Delay indicted

St. Bernard EPA testing is "off the charts" Welcome Home!

This is very enlightening.

It's finally happened. No Saints on TV in Nashville today.

Stay away from domes.

In Nashville, unspeakable specimens of wildlife are allowed much liberty by whatever ineffectual government agency is responsible for their ...

Following up on its opportunistic move to suspend the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage act in the wake of Katrina, the Bush administration is no...

Some computer models have Rita back in the Gulf next week.

As service industry owners struggle to resurrect their plantation economy , help is on the way from HUD in the form of mobile slave quarters...

Needs to be said. Too bad the only one saying it is St. Bernard Parish President Junior Rodriguez. Rodriguez said the repair job on the Ind...

Chris Rose is lonely.

Get it here. Via Murph

They fixed the rich people's levee. They didn't much care about the this one. Yesterday I watched two of the most disturbing press...

Never Pay Retail. Self-explanatory.

Some soldiers and a California news crew play "haunted history" tourist while on duty in New Orleans. I hope they got a real big...

Library Thing Create and (if you like) share an online catalog of your personal library. Now... where did I leave my books? Oh yeah. via b...

I had one of these in the evacuation vehicle with me. I threw it out the next daw.

I'm not crazy. The bastards really are doing this. If this happens to you, you can tell Foti here.

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America John M Barry I and many others have mentioned this one before. ...

Along comes the worst storm ever. Scary times. She makes a pretty picture though.

Dreamt last night that I was at a Mardi Gras parade. (Krewe of Carrollton for no particular reason) It was muddy outside and threatening ra...

Remember, the mayor decided this was good enough for folks to come back to. The east bank of New Orleans may not have safe tap water for up...

My landlord lived in lakeview and I am now unable to contact him and apprise him of my location/intent to return as soon as legally allowed,...

Found this site on kos today. Good stuff. Just passing it on.

NOPD chief Eddie Compass at today's press conference. "We are doing everything we can to disseminate our personnel."

Back in action tonight. Corny as it may be, this really does make me feel better. Update: Almost forgot. If you're out of WWL broadca...

Nagin just now: "Our reentry program has gone very smoothly. Now we are cancelling it." He just stated his criteria for allowing r...

1) Rita 2) Bruning's is destroyed but somehow Blue Dog lives on.

Tulane's next home football game will take place IN TIGER STADIUM.

Forty percent of New Orleans homeowners had flood insurance. In a flood prone region where the home buyer's ability to obtain a mortgag...

These are the people who have the Mayor's ear. Upstanding citizens like Ashton O'Dwyer. In rich white enclaves like Uptown, reside...

Opening the city at this point is an obvious safety hazzard. If the Mayor honestly cared about the city's poor and scores of renters af...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new health risk emerged Friday from the sediment of New Orleans -- test results showing that diesel and fuel oils, wh...

It's important. I work there.

Every major disaster comes with its obligatory pop-culture pronouncement. Katrina is no exception. Snark is dead.