Pardon me while I self publicize… Three years in the making, my first book is now available at Blurb. You can view the commercial here.
UPDATE! It just gets better!
Just two days after releasing the lower ninth ward: K+36 on Blurb, they contacted me for their Take 5 Tuesday interview on the Blurberati Blog! I’m positively dizzy!
WWOZ PLedge Drive Photo Album (This will continually grow until the end of the Pledge Drive at 7pm on 3-28-07)
Well, I went to the protest against Bush along with Jac and D from Defend New Orleans. We met up with still and video cameras at an intersection just off Napoleon and Freret. Dissenters, as is usual Bush policy, were kept a good two blocks from the site.
Now there is a good side and a bad side to the efforts this afternoon. The bad side was the protest itself. I have seen high school classrooms with more people in them. There were a few people from the neighborhood, a smattering of random folks, a handful of media, several Common Ground kids, and a boatload of cops. The rain couldn’t decide if it wanted to attend or not.
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There was a megaphone going around (yes, adrastos, I took a turn, you missed out), and there were a couple of old ladies going to town with it. Unfortunately a number of the kids got ahold of it as well. For the most part they engaged in taunting the police and saying “fuck,” repeatedly at top volume and in varying permutations. All in all not a lot was accomplished there, which is hardly unusual for protests.The good side of all this is the incredible spreading of the meme. The prior posting was picked up, thanks to Scout Prime at First Draft, by an incredible array of sites throughout the blogosphere. I can hear search engines ratcheting upwards even now. “New Orleans Rebukes George Bush,” is a meme that is spreading far and wide. I am quite happy with that.
I am also happy to see the amount of discussion this has generated. From Schroeder’s eloquent and constructive approach to some of the pro-Bush comments suddenly turning up in the original post’s comments (quite a dialogue going on there still, feel free to join in). I know to many this is a moot argument, polarizing at best and violently stupid at worst. I just cannot let the issue go.
There are 122 levees scattered across the US that the Corps has declared unsafe. After the past eighteen months I have come to feel that no one should have to go through what we have. No one. I don’t care if it is some bonehead who rails against us and is oblivious to the facts or not. The only way to prevent this is bring accountability back into the equation at the governmental level. The only way to do that is propogation of information and opening of dialogue.
Disclosure: I have run across a few that belive me to be the author. I am not. As far as I know I posted it first but it was a press release that was circulating through many local e-lists. Author unknown. Hat tip to Editor B. for sending it my way.
EDIT: pictures are here
Mysticks, Orphans, and Misfits 2007: Vices May Vary
Some images from this year’s festivities. This is as close to a post as you will get between now and Wednesday.
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I am also uploading a large number of videos taken by the Humid City’s very own Action Photographer: Monte Reed! They will all be added to the following channel on HumidCity_YouTube for your convenience. Take a look, listen to the voices of the poeple involved. This is our cultural heritage, the only thing most of us have left, and it is being destroyed before our eyes.It is time to re-adopt an old catch phrase from the Silver Machine days: “Get Wired, REVOLT!” Stay informed, get organized, fight for our way of life before the carpetbaggers turn everything into cookie-cutter condos! |
I got this via email from David Martin over at NOLAFlash and he has given his go ahead to report them. This was last night…
“I went for a one block walk tonight by the light of the full moon. The pictures in this album are taken at four deserted houses here in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans. They are just four of what must be more than fifty wide open and deserted houses within a one block radius of my house.
I crossed the threshold of only one, the first. There was immediately a great thump from upstairs and I took this as my instruction to stay out.
The rest of the photos were shot while standing in yards or on porches. I hope to do more of these soon.”
In an attempt to add some images of New Orleans as it appears now I am pleased to offer a slideshow of pictures ranging from Mardi Gras to today. Humid City slideshow on Flickr
If you have Post K pictures of New Orleans and would like to contribute to the pool of pictures please join Humid City on Flickr