Known for Scribbling, ReX scribbles a few words to a verbose webster
An Answer to a NoLA Fugee Article written by nom de plume John Paul Marat
by Michael “ReX” Dingler
Newly named Ubiquitous Urban Defacement [...]
Known for Scribbling, ReX scribbles a few words to a verbose webster
An Answer to a NoLA Fugee Article written by nom de plume John Paul Marat
by Michael “ReX” Dingler
Newly named Ubiquitous Urban Defacement [...]
The Iranian government is working very hard to prevent the world from seeing these images, and the Iranian people are RISKING THEIR LIVES to make sure that they are seen.
Please post these wherever they might be seen.
If you find more videos or images being smuggled out [...]
 While it may seem to be in bad taste to offer a link here to my own blog, the opposite is actually a better reason. It’s gearing up to be a long, hot Summer, and I thought that offering some cooling mind gel might be just the ticket. Of course, [...]
 It’s the 2nd Saturday of the month this weekend, kids. That means it’s Open Gallery Time in the St Claude Art District. Check it out at www.scadnola.com, or just come down and get started at the St Roch Tavern or the Yellow Moon. They’ll tell ya where it’s at.
 Joining the [...]
MSNBC reports that Mr & Mrs Ray Nagin are being held under Swine Flu Quarantine by the Chinese government. Apparently a passenger seated near them on their flight exhibited Swine Flu-like symptoms and the Nagins and one of his staff members will be quarantined for at least seven days. Currently, [...]
WHAT: Triple Threat Birthday Bash
WHEN: Thursday, June 18, 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
WHERE: Twisted Hair Salon, 4824 Prytania, NOLA 70115, (504) 504-309-7791
WHO: Antigravity Magazine, New Orleans Craft Mafia, Twisted Hair Salon
Antigravity Magazine, the New Orleans Craft Mafia, and Twisted Hair Salon are joining forces to make their [...]
The following is cross-posted from the very cool music and literary blog, LargeheartedBoy.com. It was an honor for me to be invited to contribute there. Since Humid City is an all-things-New Orleans kind of joint, I thought it might be of interest here. I hope that’s right. Either way, [...]
 I recently got goaded in to signing up for Facebook as an alternative social network to Myspace. I was told it was less dramatic and the members more adult and serious.
Boy Howdy, was that far off the mark.
 I read more news today about the ongoing legislative battle over building a hospital [...]
The Louisiana Food Bank Association (LFBA) has requested $18 million from the state of Louisiana to support the Louisiana Nutrition Assistance Program (LANIAP) — a model program that allows the five food banks of the Louisiana Food Bank Association to purchase nutritious foods from Louisiana farmers, fishermen, vendors and wholesalers [...]
Great job there Warren.
I can see your bumper stickers now….
NOPD: when seconds matter, they’re only minutes away.
Another delusional egomaniac at the party.
Have you bought a new home for City Hall, too?
Is your crime fighting plan also a “done deal”?
Go away, loser.
[...]Former city council-woman, member of the Louisiana House of Representativces and current moll of Mose Jefferson, Renee Gill-Pratt, had just been added to the roux being brewed in New Orleans’ US Attorneys office. The original charges reported here have been refined as more information was uncovered during the course [...]
Since I’m the lone sports nut here here at HumidCity, allow me to announce that the NFL SuperBowl site selection committee has chosen New Orleans as the host city for SuperBowl XLVII in 2013!
New Orleans won out over Miami, FL and Glendale, AZ, and this will be the tenth NFL [...]
It’s well known that I am a bit of a socialmedia evangelist, the years since Katrina have shown me the power of using information technology to organize, share information, and build connectivity between people for the common good. As a result I tend to get more than [...]
I just got this from my buddy Steve Picou and felt it well worth sharing with our audience:
Looks like the credit card reform bill is going to be voted on today. Please call Landrieu and Vitter and let them know you support the bill, S. 414.
Thanks to Consumers Union and [...]
I got to pass some time last night with a buddy of mine, let’s call him Jim. Jim’s not doing too well these days.
See, before Katrina, Jim used to be a school teacher here in town. Nowadays, he does construction work, building maintenance, all-around handyman jobs for wages paid under [...]
While we discuss the darkness of mediocrity and the pagent of stupidity that IS City Hall (Nagin & Riley met only 6 times in all of 2008?), there are far worse horrors, lurking everywhere, even, it seems, at the Walmart in Abbeville….
Abbeville, LA) – A lawsuit has been filed against a Wal-Mart [...]
These past few weeks have been dull for me - not dull as in boring, but dull as in unpolished, unsaturated, lusterless. I’m living my life in half light while fighting to douse a fire of rage consuming my spirit.
Since I was a child, I’ve owned a visceral abhorrence to [...]
It’s true, New Orleans has many problems. And many critics, including, at times, myself.
There is a tendency to bitch about the bad, because, well, it’s bad, and to not talk so much about the many great things that happen here, because, quite honestly, we’re too busy enjoying them. Or [...]
Levees.org has uncovered an interesting item in the Army Corps of Engineers ledger: $1,000,000 for public relations.
It seems that instead of fixing the levees in New Orleans, the ACE thinks it’s easier to fix their image. And apparently it is. The PR firm hired by the Corps, Outreach Process [...]
The further adventures of our wild and wacky former technology chief, Greg “Put It On The Card” Meffert are coming to light, and let me tell you kids this is a family values extravaganza!
In his last 18 months working for the city Meffert racked up over $130,000 [...]
It’s been quiet here on HumidCity for the past ten days or so while my lovely wife and I moved house. I’m starting to come to terms with the fact that I am now one of the many NOLA Bloggers blogging from another state. To be honest it has been [...]
Let’s hear it for whatever-the-heck-this-H1N1-strain-of-flu is called:
Tom Lehrer - I Got It From Agnes
Instead of all the little old ladies talking about how “Dottie had a heart condition and she died, but not before giving it to ______”, put on the Tom Lehrer. Then we can all [...]
For those of you who are still stuck in formaldehyde ridden FEMA trailers the following email contains some info you might want. Now that my Internet is hooked up I’ll be back online and posting regularly soon. In the meantime I hope that this is useful for some of you.
More [...]
For me, the best thing about Day One of the Fest was the amazing and wonderful Creole Wild West Mardi Gras Indian Tribe. I snapped a few pics in case you missed it:
(all images copyright 2009 by Louis Maistros)
Pity the fool:
PRAGUE (AFP) - Former Grand Wizard of the Louisiana-founded Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, was arrested on suspicion of promoting movements seeking the suppression of human rights, police spokesman Jan Mikulovsky told local media. …
Duke, a US citizen, is suspected of denying or approving [...]
As the president has come out in the press putting an end to water boarding and other horrible experiences offered by the Bush/Cheney regime, Dick Cheney, himself, has piped up loud & clear about the Wonders of Water Boarding, and all the benefits gleaned thereby.
What [...]
 He was joined today by the [...]
NoLA Rising is proud to present the United Artist Front, a silent auction of artwork to benefit the New Orleans Murals Arts Program, taking place on Friday and Saturday April 24th and 25th from 9 to 5 p.m. on each of those days. The location of the [...]
Easter weekend I woke to news of repeated shootings. Several children lost their lives, lives barely begun.
Easter weekend marked the begining of my last week in New Orleans before moving up North.
There is so much I will miss here, and so much I am happy to leave [...]
 I am a fan of National Public Radio, commonly known as NPR, and available in New Orleans at 89.9 FM. I enjoy classical music in the mornings often enough, and when I can’t yet think or function, there They are, and there It is.
I trust their news reporting well enough, [...]
Mayor Nagin is convinced he’s done nothing wrong.
He only took a trip paid for by technology firms who had huge city contracts.
For cameras that still don’t work.
And ran $4 million over budget.
But he didn’t know.
He took lies at face value.
Greg Meffert also had private contract [...]
The Skull Club will be open this Saturday night, April 11th, for theÂ
St Claude Art District’s second Saturday of the month opening.Â
(www.scadnola.com)Â
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Works by Alison Termine, Amie Davis, Andrew Arrasmith & Lord David Â
are joined by three new pieces by Daniel Finnigan.Â
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[...]
 Below is a link to a survey conducted by the Arts Council of New Orleans, regarding state funding for the Arts in Louisiana.Â
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 As these programs stand on the verge of being cut completely, please join me in filling out this brief survey to make the voices of those [...]
Here’s the latest on the local Pirate Celebration, NOLA Pyrate Week, Friday’s Parade and the Annual Skull Club Pirate Ball, Isla de Los Muertos:
[...]Â As Governor Jindal goes off, Nagin Style, collecting cash for his future political ambitions, and having already shot down extended unemployment benefits that would have been provided by Federal Stimulous money, he has sinced decided to close New Orleans only Mental Health Facility that treats juveniles, saying [...]
The following text was transcribed from documents found in a water damaged armoire in the attic of 601 Piety Street of the New Orleans 9th Ward neighborhood. The documents were salvaged by demolition workers contracted to destroy the home per the City of New Orleans’ blighted housing laws. Put up [...]
Come join the NOLA Pyrate Week’s PYRATE PARADE on Friday, April 3 at 7pm.
Starting from R BAR and rolling down to the market, up Decatur Street to St. Peter, and back down Bourbon Street to The R BAR…followed by the 7th annual Pyrate Ball at SKULL CLUB, [...]
“A fascinating debut that delivers much, and promises a great deal more.”
–Alan Moore, writer of Watchmen
“One of the best and most profoundly imaginative comics I’ve read for centuries.”
–Dani Filth, singer of Cradle of Filth
Those quotes are about a new New Orleans comic book penned by [...]
Once again we find the Arts under fire. Maybe Jindal has them confused with the sciences? Whatever the case may be we are now facing massive cuts to arts funding in this state. When I say massive what I really mean is pretty much eradicating funding almost completely.
The arts are [...]
This makes me very happy!
Via NOLA.com:
The Crescent City’s most celebrated and scorned anti-graffiti activist has been ordered by Municipal Judge Paul Sens to cease blotting out graffiti without the property owner’s permission.
Fred Radtke, known as the Gray Ghost for the color of paint he uses in [...]
Thursday, March 26, 8 PM.
Gold Mine Saloon
701 Dauphine Street (at the corner of Dauphine & St. Peter in the Quarter)
17 Poets Reading Series
Featured Reader: Louis Maistros
Birthday Girl in Residence: GiO the Burlesque Queen of New Orleans
Only in New Orleans is such a night possible…
This Thursday [...]
Personally I think that New Orleans business owners and citizens who have had enough of this self styled crusader and his grey paint should show up and make their feelings known today.
If you’re lacking background on this unstable individual check these out:
[www.neworleanscitybusiness.com]
[www.neworleanscitybusiness.com]
[videos.nola.com]
[...]
New Orleans continues its descent into the primordial ooze.
Last night, another blogger and I, neighborhoods apart, watched the same television-news report on the city’s use of only 3 million dollars of the 16 million funded by FEMA for reparations to our public playgrounds. I was reminded of [...]
I know, the election is over, but dagnabbit I just found this and for those of you who can appreciate a fine Tijuana Bible, it is so finely executed. WARNING: Not for the timid or children!
http://www.ep.tc/mccain-bible/
[...]Now granted I have been out of the loop a bit due to packing and other fine entertainments, however even I caught the lovely piece of idiocy offered up by our Governor in response to Pres. Obama’s oratory.
In other words, I know he made a complete jackass out of himself, [...]
“Bilking American taxpayers is what insurance companies do. Why is anyone surprised?!” Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss
They are surprised because they failed to learn the hard lessons that were given to the residents of the Hurricane Coast: the business model of insurance–to take in money and pay little or none by [...]
As some of you may have noticed my own posting here on the site has been greatly reduced recently. Change is in the wind for me and it has kept me multitasking like an octopus on meth.
My lovely wife was recently accepted to grad school, unfortunately her program is not [...]
