New Orleans Blogwire

updated at 13:43

• Brian Denzer contends "What gets measured gets done"

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  A teaser quote from Denzer's excellent op-ed in the Times Picayune:
  
  Right now, what separates New Orleans from Baltimore is 1,000 miles-- and 10 years of government reform.
  That, and few other things. Like their preference for the "Hon" colloquialism, for instance.
  
  Seriously, go read Brian Denzer's' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  by oyster

• Drone Jett and the Black Ops

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Is "Drone Jett and the Black Ops" the best name you've heard for a punk rawk band, or what? Anyone who wants to use this name for their own upstart punk band (a female lead voice works best), please feel free.
  
  A little snippet of local punk history inspired' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  by oyster

• Too much to do

  —Library Chronicles

  I'm not going to waste this day finishing the Saints reporting. There's too much going on out there. This week's post was turning out to be more about Bob Roesler and mercury denaturing and xbox and Higgs boson particles than actual football anyway. I'll just fold all that bullshit into [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:32am EST
  by jeffrey

• H/T'n'Thanks Youz

  —New Orleans News Ladder

  H/T'n'Thanks Youz Charolette getting Dinglerized!
  
  Ed Blakely Former Recovery Buffoon is on Facebook
  ~Thanks Youz Karen!
  ~and a little'mo Lagniappe from Squandered Heritage.
  
  Navy Week: Johanna Mudge
  ~NOLAFemmes
  
  Ida might skip Louisiana, veer to Florida~Mark Schleifstein
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:15am EST
  

• Hey;I'm a full time bar ...

  —New Orleans

  Hey;
  
  I'm a full time bar tender in New Zealand and considering moving to New Orleans for a change of scenery.
  
  What's the employment market like over there? I've had a hunt around on the web and there doesn't seem to be much advertised. Is there a website' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:50am EST
  

• It will Take TWO MORE

  —Our New Orleans Saints

  Hokie and Mike Detillier are both questioning the team this week. "This is THE trap game." both men called it.
  
  ???TRAP GAME???
  We are the New Orleans Saints. We have supported a losing team for generations now. A game is a game. We all understand how the slate [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:09am EST
  by dillyberto

• Couhig: the duke of dithering

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 0
  How does Rob Couhig get away with attending forums for mayoral candidates when he won't yet declare whether he's actually going to run?
  
  Recall that in '06 Couhig blasted Mitch Landrieu for taking too long to decide whether to run for mayor. He criticized him on' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:58am EST
  by oyster

• Physician, Heal Thy Profession

  —New Orleans -- It's Just Me

  Number of comments: 0
  I just stumbled upon this link: When Doctors Kill Themselves.
  The unsettling truth is that doctors have the highest rate of suicide of any profession. Every year, between 300 and 400 physicians take their own lives—roughly one a day. And, in sharp contrast to the general population, where male [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:16am EST
  by E.J.

• The Duck Book of Rules

  —New Orleans Daily Photo

  
  You get a mouthful of tasty stuff from the bottom of the pond and then strain out the water -- you want this to be better tasting, not more filling, right?
  --steve buser [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:02pm EST
  by Steve Buser

• Wait

  —Library Chronicles

  I just got in. There was a debate tonight? I thought there were still like 70 more candidates waiting to declare.
  
  Update: Just going by Kevin Allman's notes in that post, I'd say Murray wins that one.
  
  Also... (sigh) Perry, ever-wired into the Facebook/Twitter Zeitgeist, managed to [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:43pm EST
  by jeffrey

• Friday Cat Blogging With PhotoshopFrom Album3Tigger goes ...

  —2Millionth Web Log

  Number of comments: 0
  Friday Cat Blogging With PhotoshopFrom Album3Tigger goes to Washington again, this time to the House chamber, where hopefully we'll see at least a small step taken towards a sane health care policy tomorrow. Have a good weekend everyone.' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  by Michael

• Yes Sir!

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 0
  Chef Who Dat was there to capture a magic moment in the Dome.
  
  Bless Dem Boys... and the Saints, too. [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:42pm EST
  by oyster

• Keeping it Real

  —Southern Mom

  The real reason I am still wearing my maternity clothes:  It is true, I can button my pre-pregnancy pants and my shirts can make it over the barrel that I call  my stomach.  However, as a friend once called it, maternity clothes are outside pajamas.  They are roomy, when you [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:39pm EST
  by soulprncs2

• In-effing-deed

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 14
  In an important post that you should read more than once, Jeffrey writes:
  
  something must explain why a supposedly free people allow themselves to be ruled and misused this way; why we arrive at a government that can't deliver water to stranded citizens but can build a mini-GITMO' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:57pm EST
  by oyster

• Meffert files Libel suit against Attorney General

  —American Zombie

  Number of comments: 5
  Greg Meffert has threatened to file a libel suit against U.S. Attorney General Jim Letten for holding a press conference today and claiming that he, his wife, and co-conspirator, Mark St. Pierre, are being charged with 63 counts of felony charges.
  
  Meffert stated, "Jim Letten has tarnished my name" [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:14pm EST
  by Dambala

• Corrosion presents the Silent Hill blackout party.

  —New Orleans

  Corrosion presents the silent hill blackout party. Nov 25th at 1135 Decatur. Doors at 10PM $3 cover. An award for the best costume will be given at 2AM. We ask that no one comes as pyramid head, he will be making his own guest appearance. The bar will be equipped  [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:44pm EST
  

• CMP: See you at the book fair!

  —Voices of New Orleans

  

  Don't forget: Tomorrow's the 9th annual NOLA book fair. We'll be there with some new titles and T-shirts. Come say hi. Buy Dave a beer, and he might slip you a free book, you never know.

  [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:01pm EST
  

• Yes there's one of those long rambling football posts sitting in the drafts folder

  —Library Chronicles

  But I'm going to see Dave Eggers speak at NOCCA tonight so I'll just have to waste part of my Saturday finishing it up... or maybe I'll make next week another two-fer. But that would suck since half of this week's post is about why the Saints are guaranteed to' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:54pm EST
  by jeffrey

• BUFFOON BLAKELY SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO NEW ORLEANS

  —Ringside Politics

  November 6, 2009….Former New Orleans Recovery Director Ed Blakely has done it again. He has made condescending, racist and inflammatory comments that are harmful to the City of New Orleans. In a TV interview Blakely said that New Orleans residents are “racists” and that white people sense “blood in the water” post-Katrina and are working [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:45pm EST
  

• A Good Circuitry Soldier

  —Library Chronicles

  Sometimes the way will have an eye on them
  Other times the ass will snatch the morsel
  Clive licks the eyes of the lonely ones
  Here at the time when the mission kicks the tribe
  The commission takes the bribe
  
  The schadenfreude portion of the Dragonslaying process is usually [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:13pm EST
  by jeffrey

• Guy Fawkes Night

  —pistolette . net

  

  Remember remember, the 5th of November…

  Last night I did my first haring with the VooDoo Hash House Harriers (VDH3). I co-hared the Guy Fawkes/V For Vendetta themed hash in the Marigny with Udderly Retitulous and Pastor Bait-Her. It was fun! Albeit short. I doubt it could [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:10pm EST
  by Pistolette

• "The game is up, brah."

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 1
  
  Surprised Muppets
  
  
  
  Greg Meffert may be surprised, but he shouldn't be. The Times-Pick-On-You reports:
  
  A federal grand jury this morning indicted former city technology chief Greg Meffert, his wife, Linda Meffert, and his former friend' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:41pm EST
  by oyster