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• After the Deluge or A tale of two Souls of the City

  —Library Chronicles

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  Last Friday night we celebrated r's birthday at Acme Oyster house in the French Quarter as we have done each of these past four years. It's not the worst way to watch your mid-thirties fly by, I guess. One advantage of aging at Acme is that the event comes with [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 9:49am EST
  by jeffrey

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• Dancin' the ...

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  Dancin' the Deluge Away: Louise, June, and I went to the Father-Daughter Dance at their school on Saturday afternoon. It started with a gray skies and off-and-on rain, fancy dresses, tightly tied ties, almost-forgotten tickets and umbrellas, a dash into the cafeteria-turned-dance-hall, cookies and fruit' [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 6:30pm EST
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• Chicken Wings

  —Blackened Out

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  I have a secret that I am going to share, but you must promise not to tell anyone. The best chicken wings in the New Orleans area can be found at Tan Dinh. Just look at these beauties. Here's how they do it. First, the wings' [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 8:40am EST
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• How the Goths Stole Christmas IV - in one week

  —New Orleans

  While the flood waters rise on Oak Street and bodies, debris and submerged cars begin to float past the doorway of Z'Otz, we take a moment to contemplate the festivities of next weekend.
  
  
  Shadow Gallery's ultra-spectacular third anniversary party will be next Saturday at our enormous, lovely new' [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 5:30pm EST
  

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• OMGUT!

  —Slimbolala

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  I feel that the existing batch of inter-slang acronyms—OMG (Oh My God), LOL (Laugh Out Loud), ROTFLMAO (Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off), AFAIK (As Far As I Know), etc.—has grown stale and inadequate (so late nineties), and I have therefore decided to create new ones. Henceforth, I [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:46pm EST
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• Songs to Aging Children Come

  —Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans

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  There are no artists today who write songs like this. The traditions that grew out of Lomax’s tape deck, the Celtic and African echos of our ancestors that blossomed in the Fifties and Sixties when a man with a guitar standing on the shoulders of Woody and Leadbelly could speak [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 8:26pm EST
  by mf

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• Commentary by David C. Bellinger

  —Your Right Hand Thief

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  “Parish President Aaron Broussard is no Donald Trump; Can’t Say, ‘Tim Whitmer ‘You’re Fired!'”
  
  Dear Blogger:
  
  Re: “Whitmer pressed to reveal ties, Jeff official: Give details or resign” by Richard Rainey, New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 25, 2009
  
  With federal subpoenas in Jefferson Parish flying as fast as' [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:03pm EST
  by oyster

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• TP: NOLA gains 2,200 jobs in October

  —Voices of New Orleans

  

  New Orleans had a good month as far as job creation goes. More than half the jobs were connected to schools and universities. The construction and travel industries were notable exceptions, posting job losses.

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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 5:07pm EST
  

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• A Tale of Two Meals

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  "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
  Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
  
  Much has been said and written about Coquette. Based on a recent lunch there, the restaurant still has some growing up to do if it wants to run with [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:11am EST
  by Rene

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• Couhigtown

  —Your Right Hand Thief

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  Mayoral candidate Rob "inconceivable" Couhig wants to play "Let's Remind New Orleans":
  
  Asked what qualities they would look for in a new police chief, all [seven mayoral hopefuls] said the New Orleans Police Department needs a new leader identified through a national search.
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  Attorney Rob Couhig reminded' [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:57am EST
  by oyster

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• off with his head

  —the mosquito coast

  You don’t make $3.75 million dollars a year and blow end of game opportunities like this without facing the music. Piss poor performance, game blown, and to top it off, he threw his quarterback under the bus. I feel sorry for the players. Their talent has been wasted by an incompetent [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:43am EST
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• Un-bucking-canny, this is

  —Library Chronicles

  Could we really be bucking yet another trend? The number of vacant properties in New Orleans has plummeted in the past year -- from nearly 70,000 abandoned lots to about 61,000 -- while blight in several other major American cities has seen a steady uptick, according to a new report [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:45pm EST
  by jeffrey

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• "A man with priorities so far out of whack does not deserve such a fine automobile"

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  From an AP story titled "Texas man drives Bugatti into pond; blames bird"
  
  Police say a low-flying pelican distracted a driver in Texas, causing him to veer off a road and drive his million-dollar sports car into a salt marsh.
  
  La Marque police Lt. Greg Gilchrist [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:54pm EST
  by oyster

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