So much I could blog about today - but I've got so much to do (include shower.....). So here is the brief version:
Last night we went to
TEACH NOLA fundraiser/awareness shindig at The Howling Wolf in the
CBD. Its a great non-profit trying to get good teachers to teach in post-
Katrina NOLA. Please check it out and if you are passionate and motivated and want to move here, perhaps this is for you.
The we w
ent with our friends to
Tipitinas to see
Yo La Tengo play.
Tipitinas is a funky place with a great atmosphere. There was some strange music from the opening band (dare I say it but we actually heard
bad music in
N'awlins!!) and Yo La
Tengo seemed bent on mimicking it to begin with but luckily chilled out into their more standard indie
emo style.
Today I read some fantastic stuff in
Ashley's blog about storming the Bastille (
ie city hall, those responsible) on Bastille Day and also he's put up an "official"
weblink to the term
Federal Flood in
Wikipedia. Some
NOLAites refer to the Katrina "incident" as the Federal Flood because it wasn't a hurricane that shattered this city it was the failure of the Federal levees.
And
fina
lly today was nicely rounded off by the Easter Bunny sending a package from Indiana with two cute stuffed toy
peeps and other goodies.
I have just seen a very very interesting article on Ashley's blog. It is an article written by a woman from Boston about New Orleans and the lack of progress here. It is worth taking the time to read - it is a view from outside and gives an impression to those of you who don't live here but saw all that TV footage, of what it really is like here in what a lot of NOLA bloggers have started to "affectionately" call Debrisville!!!
