Library Chronicles

1) Shop around an injury-plagued underperforming star with a big cap number for weeks. 2) Actually trade him. It's okay, the trade will...

At the same time that PBJ was on teevee half-smirkingly pouting about the magnetic train, "from Las Vegas to Disneyland" Jindal...

Dude takes it ALL the way home. In an unusual, perhaps unique, arrangement, State Education Superintendent Paul Pastorek has, in his words, ...

Far be it for me to say anything against the ongoing Jindal-bashing party in the mainstream press, the liberal blogosphere, the conservative...

Who else thinks "keystone Corps" is more than just an accident ?

Still working on the Mardi Gras post. Here are the Cheyenne Indians dancing on Second Street to tide you over.

Although I never understood the reasoning behind that decision.

E is obviously not too hungover this morning to take a critical look at PBJ's performance last night. Maybe it isn't fair to Sarah ...

Despite what you're seeing and hearing in the national media about something that happened on my block yesterday, Mardi Gras was also a...

David asks, "What was the worst thing about Jindal's presentation tonight?" (Meaning last night) Was it that he sounded like...

See you outside somewhere. Looks like a pretty one.

Obviously I've been doing Carnival-type stuff this weekend. It's no big loss to the general discourse, however. There certainly wo...

There are times when we face the shocking possibility that we may be getting too old for this. However, as many things, it is not a possibi...

Coming down St Charles Avenue last night Hermes was a beautiful parade. More later. Right now it's time to go back outside and play. ...

Actual reasonable discussion underway right now in a NOLA.com comment thread! And it's about ladder usage!

I've received the following photo from Lind's infamous Carnival source, "Deep Float" It appears the reveal the super-secre...

Who even knew there was a non-binding (so far) referendum on ladder usage underway at the The Gambit site? Remember, the choice here isn...

From yesterday's idiot page: Parade patrols are inconsistent Wednesday, February 18, 2009 While I realize the Orleans Police Department ...

While doing a little research for an upcoming post, I forced myself to re-read Geek Appeal , Jeremy Alford's campaign puff piece on Jind...

While watching Pygmalion pass on Friday night, I saw something I hadn't seen before so I asked the Tweeter Tube, "What is Roots of ...

Friday afternoon we held a minor ceremony at the library during which we posted a fresh set of "Please do not throw trash into the libr...

Hornets deal Chandler to OKC for big men

I think I might cancel my season tickets.

Adam Freaking Nossiter

The King Cake babies seem larger this year than in years past. I believe this must be due to some sort of inappropriate use of growth hormo...

Eastern New Orleans library to be demolished today I make it a rule to stay away from library-in-the-news items on this site. But the East ...

Don't worry. There probably won't be too many more of these T-Bogg rip-offs. Just a few more until the gloss wears off and the sur...

The rain let up just long enough for everything to pass. Perfect Carnival atmosphere. Warm but not too warm. Not too crowded but not empt...

Did it win or lose here? I can't decide. WASHINGTON -- The House has passed a $787 billion plan to resuscitate the economy, handing Pr...

Nice headline, NOLA.com.

Usually at this time of year, people are far more optimistic and joyful than they seem lately. The rain doesn't help but we can handle...

"Earnest" is the current preferred word used to excuse "trite pretentious bullshit"

But I used to get annoyed when the political press would revise history in order to fit its arguments. Now it seems they're revising st...

1) Wait until Mardi Gras 2) Be somewhere that tourists might notice Actually I run this block just about every night and the lights are work...

On the front page with a handsome photo, no less. Cao may cast lone GOP vote for stimulus His district needs aid it provides, he says Thursd...

What is it about Ed Blakely and "mythical" cranes that guides their seemingly interlocked destinies? Crane link via TBP (this i...

Jindal threatens to refuse some stimulus funds . Probably because our bang-up economy continues to "buck the trend" Or maybe he f...

Yglesias somehow finds this comforting. David Sirota has observed previously and observes once again that there seem to be many more progr...

Residents along St. Charles Ave don't want this sort of thing in their neighborhood. "There's too many people, too loud. It...

Obama : But I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument. I think that's...

This President sucks. It's now officially Obama's Depression. WASHINGTON— The Obama administration’s new plan to bail out the natio...

I decided at the last minute not to bring my camera. It's a bit cumbersome to lug around while you're trying to dance and drink and...

Apparently they went with low Popahiram* this time. It now seems like we're going to go the 'bad bank' route. Only instead of b...

The problem really isn't with "the centrists" . Mush heads like Claire McCaskill can only be expected to behave like mush hea...

So I went out and bought me a cheap off-brand version of one of them portable music making machines the kids all talk about... partially so ...

Basically they've thrown out $40 billion in much-needed fiscal aid to states and municipalities in order to subsidize an AMT patch and r...

So even after "co-Presidents" Nelson and Collins finish shittying up the stimulus bill, Mitch McConnell announces.. to no one...

KDV tonight!! (I have resolved to include !s in any links to Adrastos from now on) Charging the camera now.

Val Kilmer ponders running for N.M. governor Wait wait... I almost left out the campaign slogan. "I'm just looking for ways to be c...

Well this is where we find out whether or not Obama has learned anything in his first few weeks on the job. Here are three lessons he shoul...

Roving gangs of ruffians preying on citizens... and they're the ones with the badges.

Or so says NOLA.com anyway . This is a monumental triumph of the blogosphere's potential to make Carnival not suck. Now that we know it...

Has the Carrollton-Riverbend Neighborhood Association purchased the domain name, "Getoffmylawn.com" yet? Because it might help mo...

Larry Summers may or may not be this administration's Cheney ... but either way, the man is a dick . The problem is that Summers and Gei...

Would it help if we had a T-P reporter photograph their television sets?

Ritholtz has a plan for spending the remaining TARP funds . My plan is very simple: Take 175 million taxpaying households — the bottom 80% o...

Krugman: Meanwhile, when it came to stimulus legislation, when Obama finally introduced his economic plan he immediately began negotiating...

Grace on yesterday's trash stunt: Oh, about that letter: One, given to The Times-Picayune by a resident, was dated Jan. 28, and said the...

Yesterday was another weird one. To begin with, I spent the day at home failing to communicate effectively with my building's new maint...

Which is really kind of lame since even Paul Vallas has found something else to go ruin by now.

Now in convenient game form.

And yet it is, indeed.... messy. Update: Meanwhile Celcus takes back to the scene where excited onlookers continue to watch the trash pile...

Someone emailed me a link to this crazy customer stories site . The one thing I've learned from it is that both of the so-called career...

But that's only because it's trivia night. Otherwise, I would LOVE to have a few drinks in the Quarter and watch the garbage pile u...

With less than a week to go before Krewe du Vieux and less than two weeks before the parade season begins in earnest, now is the time to ra...

First Bank and Trust plans to build on the same corner where FNBC has been planning to build for over a year now. Because St. Charles Aven...

1800 Chippewa is not technically in the Garden District. I know that headline makes the story seem more sensational... which is itself ano...

I don't have a very good feeling about Lolis Eric Elie's move from columnist to reporter at the T-P. Lolis has been one of the pape...

If Sidney Torres's ego doesn't cast a shadow... does that mean we get 6 more weeks of lemon scent?

How a football team can get away with hiring a guy named "Wisenhut" to be its coach.

President Obama: "I do not view the labor movement as part of the problem. To me, it's part of the solution," he said, to a r...

New Orleans's Inspector General Robert Cerasoli has resigned his position and returned to Massachusetts in order to attend to what appe...