can i buy Pregabalin online in uk So we headed off to a party in mid-city, where many of New Orleans’ civil rights lawyers and activists would be gathered. I had woken up that morning in a swamp, hadn’t showered since leaving Venice two days ago, and now was talking to people who had tried cases before the Supreme Court. Conversation was […]
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The Death Penalty in America.
28-May-14forcefully My host and I got into his little compact and drove to this crawfish boil, which was being held by the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. This center sued in cases of housing discrimination (and just to remind you that this is still a problem I will note that the last president of […]
New Orleans!
26-May-14The old River Road, entering into New Orleans, takes on the distinctive qualities of the roads of that great city: it becomes a six-lane divided boulevard, with the extreme lanes reserved for parking, the sort of streets that form the neighborhood boundaries throughout the city; and it takes on the name of St. Claude Avenue. […]
A general atmosphere of dereliction seems to be the Chalmette Battlefield’s way of confessing that it merits only a cursory visit; and I did not give it more. A cracked pavement circles an irregularly mowed field, with faded placards indicating the positions and movements of troops during the battle; atop a rampart sat a few […]
Through Chalmette.
25-May-14I was curious to see Chalmette. I remember one time I was speaking with a woman in New York who said she was from New Orleans. “New Orleans!” I said. “What part?” She paused a bit and then said, “Just outside New Orleans, actually. You probably wouldn’t know it.” “I might,” I said. “I know […]
In the Parish.
24-May-14I wasn’t eaten that night by an alligator, as it turns out; I woke up entire, and immediately hopped on my bike to do a little morning tour of the park. There were all kinds of wading birds everywhere; they flew off as soon as I was within a hundred feet or so. I found […]
Into the Dagobah System.
20-May-14I stayed that night at St. Bernard State Park, where I paid twenty dollars for the right to camp legally. The very nice woman at the gate, who looked kindly on the idea of biking up the river and seemed eager to please, thought long and hard about which campsite to give me. She had […]
Fiddler Crab Holes.
20-May-14Throughout Louisiana, the roads are at least slightly embanked to deal with flooding, and the river of course is heavily leveed, and the material for the banks and levees typically comes from nearby – generally the ground adjacent to the road or levee. So you are always travelling next to a ditch. The drier ditches […]
The Mississippi River at New Orleans.
20-May-14Bible, King Louisiana Version.
20-May-14This is actually a pretty good transcription of the way people talk in Louisiana, where there is no distinction between “fine” and “find.” But I’ll note the full transcription should be “Who fahn may, fahn lahf.”