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Katrina Memories

Yesterday was the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I was going through some old notes and photos I had at the time and thought I might reproduce a couple excerpts. Most of these scratchings were written in the back of a Honda Accord, so it’s not exactly Hemmingway: 300 miles in 12 hours (and […]

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N.O. Return

Hey you. Yeah, it has been a while… What? Oh…thanks. You look good too. So um…sorry I haven’t called… things have been kind of crazy lately… A lot’s happened in the past few weeks, making it difficult to know where to begin. There’s the trip the San Francisco for the opening weekend at the new […]

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Tales from Taliesin

Finally. I have internet. The past few days have been pretty strange. Normally, I get most of my news from the internet – reading papers online, blogs, journals, etc. – but recently my only information source was the television and its many 24 hour news stations. Until now, I had no idea there was so […]

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New Orleans in Exile

Life Without Buildings has evacuated to Houston, and it looks like it’s going to be an extended stay. New Orleans doesn’t have any power or phones or plumbing or roads…or anything really. Right now, I’m sad to say it looks like things aren’t really getting any better and I’m hearing that it’ll be at least […]