Tag Archives: New Orleans
Found on the Sidewalk…
13-Apr-091976 years later.
10-Apr-09A.J. Liebling and the Gret Stet.
08-Apr-09http://rhythmsfitness.com/sitemap-pt-post_classes-2016-04.html In writing there are only two things, matter and treatment. In Abbott Joseph Liebling’s The Earl of Louisiana we have matter so interesting that it still holds the attention fifty years later in itself, and treatment so virtuosic one is tempted to proclaim Liebling a literary figure rather than a journalist. As far as matter […]
Sold down the river.
24-Mar-09what is Seroquel Sometimes things strike you suddenly, after long delay. I took a trip up the Mississippi, and saw a few plantations, among other things. And here is New Orleans, one of the two great slave marts of America (the other being Charleston), at the very bottom of the river. And I realized the origin of the […]
Rising Tide, by John M. Barry.
18-Mar-09When I heard that many in New Orleans (especially blacks) believed that the Army Corps of Engineers had dynamited the levees protecting the city’s black neighborhoods just after Hurricane Katrina hit, I dismissed the notion as yet another conspiracy theory. These seem to proliferate wherever the powers of the human mind languish unfertilized by action […]
Dan Baum’s Nine Lives.
07-Mar-09Dan Baum came to New Orleans two days after Hurricane Katrina as a reporter for The New Yorker. The encounter changed his life, and New Orleans became one of his fascinations, for good and ill, as with most fascinations. As he says, “I think part of my being ejected from The New Yorker was that […]
New Orleans in a nutshell.
06-Mar-09“Long before the storm, New Orleans was by almost any metric the worst city in the United States – the deepest poverty, the most murders, the worst schools, the sickest economy, the most corrupt and brutal cops. Yet a poll conducted a few weeks before the storm found that more New Orleanians – regardless of […]
City of David.
02-Mar-09As I write this, it’s the last hour of March First, Saint David’s Day. The feast is named after a Welsh man, but the feast was appropriated by Saint David’s School (where I taught in years past) as the feast of King David. The Western Church typically does not call Old Testament figures “saints” nor […]
Mardi Gras Overall.
26-Feb-09As a general rule, I found the Mardi Gras events to be a continual crescendo of size and diminuendo of intensity. “Extension is the complement of soul,” I believe is the relevant apothegm (if you keep on saying it to yourself enough over a period of years you will feel how much truth is in […]
Mardi Gras Out of Context – 3.
26-Feb-09In the French Quarter, I saw a man standing at an intersection with a sign saying, GOD IS NOT FAIR. A man came up to him and asked him if he was with the Jesus people a few steps from him. And I thought to myself, “That is a great theological question. That is precisely […]