Posted in New Orleans, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices on Sep 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
I don’t remember the five stages of grief . . . in fact, Google tells me that some experts dismiss them as psycho-babble. But I know how it starts.
At first, you scream.
Yesterday afternoon, 22-year-old Chris Sanders was in our front yard, chatting with my kids. He was like a brother to Amanda, and a […]
Posted in New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, Weather, dawnsinger, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 29th, 2007 No Comments »
NOLA Video: Hurricane Hunters fly into Hurricane Dean>
Photo Gallery: Hunting Hurricane Dean
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KATRINA DAY, Aug. 29, 2007 - It hardly seems that two years have gone by since Katrina crushed us. The city is still numb and battered. Our new pioneers work feverishly and defiantly to keep from sliding into a dark whirlpool of melancholy. […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, Weather, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, Writing & Journalism Resources on Mar 15th, 2007 No Comments »
This video is compiled from audioblogs and video coming into and leaving from New Orleans on Aug. 28-30, 2005, and photos from me, my colleagues and citizen journalists before, during and after the disaster. The music is the Tragically Hip’s “New Orleans is Sinking,” which was my mental background music that day, and “Orphans of […]
Posted in General, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, FAQ, technorati, Politics, Writing & Journalism Resources on Mar 9th, 2007 Comments Off
Here’s a cool site that lets you test whether your site is being censored by the Great Firewall of China. Are you hot or not? Test it out . .. http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/
Posted in General, New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Crime & Terror on Jan 6th, 2007 Comments Off
Today is Twelfth Night . . . Epiphany . . . the first day of Mardi Gras (or Carnival, to the purists).
There’s an almost obscene irony in the air today, in this city whose mystique derives from historic juxtapositions of deep miseries and joys.
On Friday, two items illustrate this perfectly.
From MSNBC, commenting on the numbing […]
Posted in General, New Orleans, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, Crime & Terror, Politics on Sep 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Mayor Clarence “Ray Nagin” took to the stand this week to defend his administration against accusations from all quarters that he has no plan for New Orleans. The bottom line from all quarters is that Ray is still a deer in headlights. Planning to appoint a committee to develop a plan. And […]
Posted in New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane on Aug 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
There is a specter hanging over Web 2.0 - the presence, or the decay, of net neutrality. Proponents of laws guaranteeing net neutrality fear that the current free-speech, affordable access to the entire internet will be lost as the big communications companies that own the bandwidth pipelines begin to filter out business rivals' sites, crack […]
Posted in New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane on Jul 5th, 2006 No Comments »
My daughter Sarah (with whom I got my first tattoo, as described below), continues payback to Dad for the long days of anguish he endured, imagining her crushed and drowned during Katrina.
This originally was a "Voices of Katrina" post in my NOLA.com weblog, but I've had her record an audioblog for podcast posterity.
Listen to Sarah's Tale (mp3 download)
Posted in New Orleans, Signs of the Apocalypse, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane, Crime & Terror on Jun 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Meanwhile, early Saturday, New Orleans awoke to the sound of a gun-battle, an ambush and execution that left five teen-agers dead in a "gruesome" manner that shook veteran police officers.
This quintuple slaughter, the worst single violent episode in possibly several decades, is the latest wave in a murder rate that has soared since April. Before […]
Posted in New Orleans, Media, Signs of the Apocalypse, People & Voices, dawnsinger, technorati, Katrina, Hurricane on Apr 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.' Old men forget; yet all shall […]