My (last.fm) Slashdot GoodReads VimeoYesterday we walked/drove around St. Bernard’s Parish to collect visual data on the multitude of cameras we brought with us. We were given a list of 10 sites around the parish to visit and we were to collect some better shots of the projects St. Bernard Project was helping to complete or had, in fact [...]
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Our group of (F)friends is meeting up with the founders tonight for dinner.
One of the founders, Zack, is a lawyer who abandoned his practice for the mission-style work he and his wife, Liz (a former elementary school teacher and friend of a co-worker), saw as important here in New Orleans. They’ve been here for [...]
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We’re wrapping up the second day, and it’s not nearly as bad as I expected in terms of a year ago. Life is coming back to the Quarter, shops are open, and it seems promising. No worries about parking the car in an open lot outside (like last time) or walking home [...]
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So, I’m back in The Big Easy and it seems to be coming back as well (photos posted here), despite the poor reports in the news. We’re here to work on the rebuild project of St. Bernard’s Parish (the St. Bernard Project) which works in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity in one of the most [...]
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I’m picking up some new lyrics via my new headphones and, lo and behold, Quakers appear inside the Deee-Lite song “I.F.O.”!:
“I.F.O., Whaddaya know? We’re from the South
Will we ever get a chance to go far north?
What is far north to us? New York!
You spoke before,
I reach back, like Solomon Bell (?)
You’re from another planet [...]
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