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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Spring in New Orleans…

10-Feb-09

buy Misoprostol no prescription     … comes in February, exactly when you need it.

C. Ray Nagin

08-Feb-09

Maringá       You really have to give it to this guy, who makes George W. Bush look like Charles Maurice de Talleyrand.  Everyone knows the “Chocolate City” comment, but he offered some later treasures such as “I am a vagina-friendly mayor,” and (about New Orleans being the murder capital of the U.S.), “it isn’t good for us, but […]

Satire in New Orleans.

08-Feb-09

      One of the things that has most struck me – and which I never noticed before here – is the omnipresence of political discussion.  There are strange things here, like truly local talk radio – not talking about Democrats and Republicans, but about New Orleans and its specific problems.  There is an Onion-type newspaper, […]

Caro ave. Later vale.

08-Feb-09

      Krewe du Vieux rolled tonight.  I made it there a bit late, and the first thing I saw was a host of papier-mache sperm cells swimming through the French Quarter, surrounded by huge crowds of people.  As I got closer I saw they were following a huge float of a female behind with the […]

Lovely, democratic, Athenian insanity.

07-Feb-09

      Tomorrow rolls one of Mardi Gras’ first parades: the ribald Krewe du Vieux (pronounced croo duh voo).  Its wonderful website gives you a taste of the mix of commentary, buffoonery, and transgression that characterizes the whole season.  It’s like something out of Petronius or Lucilius, and yet here it is, in America.       And there […]

City of the Saints.

06-Feb-09

In New Orleans.

06-Feb-09

      I arrived in the New Orleans area on Monday and stayed with a friend out in Mandeville, which is on the other side of (the surprisingly beautiful) Lake Pontchartrain.  Yesterday I found a room in the Crescent City itself, and today I moved in, with a singer/songwriter (and apparently local legend) named Johnny Angel.  […]

Not a commissioner you want to mess with…

05-Feb-09

The Conservative Side of the Church.

05-Feb-09

      I was speaking with my mother about the most recent Church problems, when she referred to Benedict XVI as “your pope,” i.e. my pope, a pope of the more conservative Catholics, and the younger Catholics.  And there is no doubt that I was happy on the day Benedict was elected.  I watched the news […]