Library Chronicles

(Still in Chicago... at the library no less) 1) I have achieved official "malcontent" status 2) A reading comprehension challenge...

I'll be leaving for Chicago tomorrow morning and will be back late Saturday night. As usual, Raul is in charge. Upon my return I inten...

Apparently the obnoxious Frat-Rock band Cowboy Mouth will be there at 4:30 tying up traffic and annoying people generally.

Kermit Ruffins was billed along with Alan Toussaint and Irma Thomas for Monday night's national anthem performance.. but didn't show...

... besides the obvious. The weather was perfect. This was important because it allowed us to arrive via bicycle without a bead of sweat. ...

the best football game I have ever seen.... ever.. like ever in my life... in the building where I saw my first football game... where I saw...

We're gonna need all the help we can get. Also check out Angus Lind's column on Buddy D today. And that's it from here. See ...

So my fantasy team, The Fat Guys, is in pretty good shape. They're heading into tonight leading r's Fleur Dee Lites by a small marg...

Biotech firm produces hypoallergenic cats. * Guess the title reference. Win a cookie... or something.

Thanks, Philly. Stallworth's hammy hurts again. Can Colston go ahead in the TD tally tonight?

Back when we were in the flower of our youth (I don't know.. five.. six years ago) and not foundering about in the advanced stages of ar...

Clancy goes boating with C Ray and Meffert... cites Dambala as a source .

We actually let those bastards score.

Report disputes utility increase request Advisers take issue with Entergy charges Saturday, September 23, 2006 By Pam Radtke Russell Entergy...

Naginesque strategy is now being implemented in Maryland. Anyone else get the impression that what is meant by "Steele Democrat" ...

BIG EASY BANNED BOOK WEEK KICKOFF When: Sunday, September 24 2006 @ 07:00 PM CDT - 10:00PM Event Type: Where: the House Of Blues, 225 Dec...

Scalzi tapes bacon to his cat. Spawns internet phenomenon.

The next statewide election cycle is almost upon us and as Stephanie Grace points out this morning , political hacks of all stripes are watc...

Finally, an alternative to Diebold vote stealing machines.

We continue our all-football-all-the-time-format with a story that hasn't gotten much attention this week. It's about a football sta...

That's right. Most of us still were not home yet. Rita approaches.

With the following question: Besides the New Orleans Saints, which 2-0 squad is the league's biggest fraud? Also I'm surprised the S...

Oyster has posted an examination of the false rumors of rampant killings in the Superdome after Katrina. In fact there were exactly zero h...

USA Today Seventh-year Saints wide receiver Joe Horn, who was one of the more active players in seeking out displaced fans after Katrina, ag...

RIP 'Bud Rip' Ripoll Jr., 9th Ward institution Thursday, September 21, 2006 By John Pope Staff writer Edward "Bud Rip" Rip...

Dambala suggests the story's next heading.

Required reading as always. What a joke American journalism is. Our entire army is on its knees before a few thousand gun-toting religious f...

Yup

G Bitch posts a Survivors Village document titled Nine Myths and Realities about Public Housing in NO Housing is the most important issue...

U2 sucks, okay? Since about 1990.. they have done nothing but pump out an endless stream of musical douchebaggery.... oh and occassionally ...

The boat story keeps getting better.

Heh. It wasn’t enough for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to leave thousands of trailers rotting for months unused in acres o...

Really, though. Would you send your children to anything that was called " Kids on Fire" ?

Condominiums planned for abandoned hospital Home values are increasing in Irish Channel AAAARRRRGGHHHH!!!!!! Prediction: One year from now...

One day late... sorry... it's becoming all-football-all-the-time around here... as well it should. Okay short and sweet: Clancy is back ...

Really.. those people over there act like animals. I know I always lock my doors when.. God forbid.. I have to drive into Jefferson Parish...

First the good news. In a shocking display of good sense, the new AP top 25 rankings do not list Notre Dame ahead of LSU as some predicted....

1st half was riddled with awful officiating. A crucial pass to Jacob Hester which would have resulted in a first down was ruled incomplete a...

Yes, you have my permission to go right ahead and apply anything you learn here for gambling purposes. First of all, someone go get Maitri ...

Back on the air with more very important stuff. A somewhat long time ago.. a regular publication known as Timshel would post a Friday Time ...

looks like blogger issues.. I can log in but I can't access my published blog. I'm just posting to see if it does any good.

So I don't have to sit through the gay ass pre-game show.

Here are my tickets This will be my view of the most culturally significant event in New Orleans since Carnival. Consider this an invitati...

Former Texas governor Ann Richards has passed. It's early in the morning and I'm not sure I have the words yet but I'd like to...

Where are we now? Here's the official version. For a more honest an eloquent assesment see G Bitch. David puts it more directly.

This evening someone wrote a really good Kos diary with accurate information (for a welcome change) on how to help local libraries affected...

In case anyone was wondering what happened to the old Chocolate Alert System which first appeared here June 1, be aware that it is still s...

While it's looking like Cardin has the edge on Mfume, Political Wire quotes a SurveyUSA poll which does allow for the following. Caveat...

Good. Neither do I. Seriously this has to be the most unhelpfully named website on the internets.... well apart from Your Right Hand Thief...

(This week's Gambit is not yet online) Don't miss the interview with Jason Berry whose Last of the Red Hot Poppas is cleverly sched...

Well.. I think we all know. In lieu of a personal "where were you?" 9/11 tale (I was released from jury duty due to the events of...

It's raining like hell out there. So glad I took the bike to work today!

Things It would have been a real shame to let the Browns get away with stealing this one. They almost did. I've been to too many of th...

It sounds like Saints fans are in the spirit. This morning people are calling Bobby Hebert and predicting the Saints will win between 5 and ...

As I sit down to post this, LSU just went up 17-0 on Arizona. But something is not quite right in Tigerland this year. Earlier this week I...

Oyster has yet another bone (or several) to pick with The Dead Pelican. It's a very long post.. and I'd like to pull out an excerp...

Bush suspends the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage act in the hurricane recovery zone. Boyd Blundell explains why this is very very bad.

Editor B. has found Sandra Hester. I cannot express my utter joy that Ms. Hester is alive and kicking... but unfortunately living in somet...

I just submitted the following to ESPN's Page2 reader comment section. Down here in New Orleans we're a little dismayed that Jason W...

Contemplating the coming class war in New Orleans has me quoting Big Tymers lyrics. Related: Loki has some updates on the New Orleans hip-ho...

Yes!

Schools not ready. Nagin's response on the evening news: Try private schools. Update: T-P has way way more on this this morning. Lest ...

No pickle meat in Nashville!

T-P: Alderwoods selling 4 local funeral homes Katrina-damaged Bultman parlor among casualties The Bultman home, acquired by Alderwoods in t...

So this big post I've been promising for the last few days now has pretty much been happening in the discussion over at Adrastos's p...

Among the Hillbillies Also.. we think the a/c is finally back in order so we've moved back in to familiar environs today. This means th...

I'm all about the meta posting these days. Here I was last year comparing my Katrina experience to a more pleasant one with Ivan in 20...

Karen the zealous nut has asked a pretty good question in a Moldy City comment thread. Do you have any idea how the GO Zone Money is bein...

Here.

They found Fats Domino

C Ray is on the road again. This time he's visiting his favorite hole in the ground while seeking once again to open Carnival to commer...

The recent Lib Chron third anniversary deluxe meta-post included a selection of feedback this site has attracted over the years. We neglec...

The city recently opened a "Welcome Home" center on the third floor of the main library. This is in addition to the FEMA Disaste...

Flood Street then and now

Impressions: Bush is good. Try not to break him. Drew Brees does all the little things that Aaron Brooks never bothered to learn. He makes...

MLK Branch underwater.

Here it is It's ek-a-lek-tik Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin ...

Via Maitri This should give you a good idea of why AB failed in New Orleans. Emotional immaturity. Brooks said even all the coverage from...

As I said earlier... today was hard. For a while yesterday we thought that maybe the city would close its offices for the day in observance...

I have to admit it's really hard today. Would have been nice to have the day off. Don't miss this NOLA.com then and now gallery. Wa...