The Garden of Irks and Delights

• For Future Bloggers

  

  
  

  
  
  What: Blogging 101 Class: An Introduction to Blogging for the Utter Novice
  
  When: Thursday, Nov. 12; 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  
  Where: The Bridge Lounge, 1201 Magazine St
  
  Why: To Learn About Blogging and for Free Beer.
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:03am EST
  

• A week later and I'm still VERY irked by this.

  
  
  OK, sure it's the first time I've posted anything in ages and surely there are lots of other things I should have written about, but here was this article, sitting open in a browser window, and it got me all outraged again.
  
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 2:53am EDT
  

• Rising Tide 4!

  
  On the off chance that you haven't deleted me from your feed reader yet, I wanted to be sure to tell you about this year's Rising Tide conference. Harry Shearer is the keynote speaker. Don't miss it.
  
  Oh, and now that I'm [...]
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  Posted: August 03, 2009, 3:15am EDT
  

• Look what I got!!!

  
  #1 Hanging Light
  Originally uploaded by Salvations2008. Sure, there's been a lot of "news" happening in my life lately and I haven't blogged anything. So, here's something!
  
  Wonderful synchronicity has returned to my life. Yay!!
  
  There have been' [...]
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  Posted: March 21, 2009, 3:51am EDT
  

• Dear Blog, Have I killed you yet?

  You're only 4 years old. Too young to die. Wait...do I detect a weak and thready pulse? Maybe there's still some life here.
  ----
  I didn't mean to do it. It's just that it's hard to post when you have so many other things that' [...]
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  Posted: December 31, 2008, 10:24pm EST
  

• Run for Your Life!

  That's the kind of thing we're hearing down here. So, we're buggin' out.
  
  Been busy getting things and people ready. We had flights to Ft. Lauderdale, FL, but we'd be flying right into Gustav's nasty east-side outer bands and Tropical Storm Hanna's threatening that area' [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2008, 10:04pm EDT
  

• NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!

  Ya hear me, Mother Nature?
  
  
  I know there are other things I should have posted about by now, but this was a quick and easy one and the 2AM update of the noodles (models) was enough to kick me into gear. Should be some [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2008, 3:25am EDT
  

• Ode to Boy- 20 Years Old

  
  
  It was 20 years ago today -- well, technically yesterday, but because I'm still awake, it's still today for me -- that I became a mother, [...]
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  Posted: July 14, 2008, 3:20am EDT
  

• T'is the Season (Letters, we get letters...)

  
  It's the end of the semester, that bright moment in the term when students suddenly remember that they have some stake in the outcome of the course and now they believe it's the professor's responsibility to make it all right for them. Just ask [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2008, 2:19am EDT
  

• 60! WOW! Happy Birthday, Big Brother.

  
  60! WOW! Happy Birthday, Big Brother.
  Originally uploaded by LisaPal. He's taking the milestone pretty well. But I think my mom's having a hella time with the idea that she has a 60 year-old kid.
  
  And [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2008, 3:22pm EDT
  

• Because I Feel Like It

  
  My First-Born and His Mom
  Originally uploaded by LisaPal. That's why I am posting this picture of my first-born son with his mom.' [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2008, 5:40am EDT
  

• Single Parenthood is a Tough Gig

  
  Cellphone pic I snapped of the adorable Morris kids
  before we piled in the van with them for last year's Proteus parade.
  
  I've publicly marveled out loud and on this blog at how my blog friends seem to get so much done all the [...]
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  Posted: April 09, 2008, 5:29pm EDT
  

• The New Orleans Blogosphere Mourns a Devastating Loss with the Death of Ashley Morris

  
  Ashley Morris, PhD
  
  Yesterday, New Orleans lost a piece of its soul with the passing of our beloved Ashley Morris. I am so stunned and brokenhearted right now that I'm finding it difficult to find words, but I have to write this now,' [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2008, 1:28am EDT
  

• Assignments I Enjoy Grading

  Enclosure: [download]

  Because Sophmom and Yat Pundit*asked about this subject via Twitter after a comment I made....
  
  I love my job more than I can say, but I do not like grading because I do not like judgment in general, and I want everyone [...]
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  Posted: March 27, 2008, 10:57pm EDT
  

• The Pelagian Heretic Wishes You a Happy Easter

  
  My First Communion- Another Funny Picture Compliments of My Dad.
  Originally uploaded by LisaPal. Here's another classic picture taken by my dad that I saved for today. It expresses the attitude I've had toward organized religion in [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2008, 9:48pm EDT
  

• Happy Purim

  There's little Rachel in preschool at the head of the line of little Queen Esthers and Junior Hamans celebrating Purim. It's my favorite PolyEsther shot.
  
  
  
  Hamantaschen makes Purimmmmm mmmm mmm good.
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  Posted: March 21, 2008, 10:19pm EDT
  

• Five Years Gone

  Vincent Joseph Palumbo
  01-11-1927 to 03-03-2003
  
  
  (If you don't feel like reading all this, you might at least get a laugh out of the pictures at the end of the post.)
  
  It was five' [...]
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  Posted: March 03, 2008, 10:47pm EST
  

• Krewe du Vieux 2008

  
  Krewe du Vieux 2008
  Originally uploaded by M Styborski. I had a BLAST!
  
  Thanks for having me, Krewe du Vieux and Krewe of PAN! I am honored and can't wait to do it again. It was an' [...]
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  Posted: January 25, 2008, 3:33am EST
  

• Thanks, Dr.King.

  
  Alex's Immediate family...June 2007
  Originally uploaded by LisaPal. This was on its way to being a long post, too long for the time I have right now, so I just want to take a moment to once again thank Dr.' [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2008, 11:49pm EST
  

• Tonight I Do the Krewe du Vieux. (Not that way!)

  
  PAN Poster 2008
  Originally uploaded by adrastosno. After a handful of stints as an "undocumented marcher" in the Krewe du Vieux during the early 1990s, I am at long last a naturalized member.
  
  It started with the debut of [...]
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  Posted: January 19, 2008, 2:23pm EST
  

• Happy New Year! 2008

  
  Happy New Year! 2008
  Originally uploaded by LisaPal. Our magic hats kept is safe from falling bullets.
  
  Actually, this is one of the few irrational fears I have, but less so out here at Mom's. (And' [...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2008, 6:41am EST
  

• 2007 Year End House Cleaning

  Now that this one's almost history, I've decided to do a little tidying up around here, I added some links to the blog roll (and probably still have a bunch I've missed), I've cleaned the sidebar up some, I added a Flickr badge, (and am working [...]
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  Posted: December 31, 2007, 7:41pm EST
  

• Ice, Crack...It seemed to make sense at the time.

  For the Unfortunate Product/Packaging Decisions file:
  Sugary Candy Looks Too Much Like Street Drugs, Cops Say.
  Story via the 23/6 News.
  
  I have to wonder if this was someone's idea of a joke that went too far or if they just hired some' [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2007, 2:44am EST
  

• Dear Fall 2007 Students, Thanks for not doing stuff like this.

  The fall semester of the year 2006S was the record-breaker for imbecility. My favorite example is pictured at right. The student handed it to me and nonchalantly walked away. I glanced at it, immediately called him back in, handed him the paper and gave him the [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2007, 2:56am EST
  

• LONG OVERDUE: Local Bloggers in the Media

  Yes, that would include me. And yes, I should have posted this a LONG time ago. I'll spare you all the excuses.
  
  Maybe some of you NOLA bloggers remember the guys from an ABC news affiliate in Santa Barbara, CA who came and filmed the goings-on during Rising' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2007, 4:01am EST
  

• A Gentleman's C: In which I introduce my child to kiddy porn.

  My laugh of the day came compliments of The Angry Professor with this post: In which I introduce my child to kiddy porn. [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2007, 2:47pm EST
  

• Do You Know This Pain?

  "'People are fighting over food and water, and the lack of electricity and running water are making life in the city impossible,' said Martha Lilia Lopez, who has been handing out food to victims on behalf of a nonprofit foundation she heads. Many in Tabasco remained camped out on the" [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2007, 3:43am EST
  

• But you said...

  My brother forwarded to me an e-mail he received from someone today. It was my laugh of the day and I thought it was just too good not to share.
  ___
  
  Here is a cake that Donnie Guidroz' wife ordered from Walmart in Gonzales. She called in the' [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2007, 9:46pm EDT
  

• Hopefully, It Won't End Like the Summer of George

  Enclosure: [download]

  If you're a Seinfeld fan, you know what I'm talking about.
  
  Disappointing birthdays seem to abound this season for different reasons. An important someone seemed to have forgotten Rachel's for the second year in a row and I spent part of mine in the ER after a stupid' [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2007, 5:46am EDT
  

• Do Not Call, Please!

  As election day nears, you've probably figured out that placing your phone number(s) on the FTC's National "Do Not Call" Registry hasn't spared you of the scourge of political robo-calls (those annoying pre-recorded calls from political campaigns), the new bane of election season. No phone -- work, home, cell-- [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2007, 4:07am EDT
  

• I Just Want One Day to Read for Pleasure and Play Mindless Video Games

  
  It probably seems as if I've ceased to exist, but I'm still reading (if not commenting on) your posts and I have been posting on the blog I keep for my students with some semi-regularity.
  
  I keep thinking that one day I'll [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2007, 3:20am EDT
  

• For My Sister

  Inspired by the last line in my sister's last post, I present the Family Crest.
  
  (See, Danna. I told you I could whip one up pretty quickly. Did I capture it?)
  
  [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2007, 4:43am EDT