A very interesting take on the abandoned Six Flags Theme Park in New Orleans East:
Update 11/10/10: The park may NOT be demolished in 2011 as stated in the video.
For perhaps the fourth time, the park may be redeveloped.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Scuzzbucket of the Week
None other than ego maniac who should've listened to his Mama when she was teaching him manners.
Prima Donna Randy Moss
Released by the Vikings today, Moss is said to have had a very loud verbal tirade against the man catering a lunch in the Vikings locker room on Friday
and the following Sunday, Moss ranted and raved about the Minnesota coach Childress, questioning his decisions.
He talked about how much he missed his former teammates and Bill Belichick, who he called “the best coach in football history.”
The wideout then suggested his efforts to provide his current coaches and teammates with inside information about the Pats’ offense had been largely ignored, saying, “I tried to prepare, tried to talk to the coaches and players about how this game was going to be played – a couple tendencies here and a couple tendencies there. But the bad part about it, you have six days to prepare for a team and on the seventh day … I guess they come over to me and say, ‘Dang Moss, you were right about a couple plays and a couple schemes that they were going to run.’ It hurts as a player that you put a lot of hard work in all week and … when you get on the field, that is when they acknowledge all the hard work.”
I'm so glad that New Orleans is a class act.
Prima Donna Randy Moss
Released by the Vikings today, Moss is said to have had a very loud verbal tirade against the man catering a lunch in the Vikings locker room on Friday
and the following Sunday, Moss ranted and raved about the Minnesota coach Childress, questioning his decisions.
He talked about how much he missed his former teammates and Bill Belichick, who he called “the best coach in football history.”
The wideout then suggested his efforts to provide his current coaches and teammates with inside information about the Pats’ offense had been largely ignored, saying, “I tried to prepare, tried to talk to the coaches and players about how this game was going to be played – a couple tendencies here and a couple tendencies there. But the bad part about it, you have six days to prepare for a team and on the seventh day … I guess they come over to me and say, ‘Dang Moss, you were right about a couple plays and a couple schemes that they were going to run.’ It hurts as a player that you put a lot of hard work in all week and … when you get on the field, that is when they acknowledge all the hard work.”
I'm so glad that New Orleans is a class act.
Monday, November 01, 2010
A Rich Tradition
I'm not a big Halloween freak, guess I don't have the imagination for it. Besides that, horror movies/costumes give me the heebee jeebees.
I do love the history that comes with All Saints Day, though. Living in the Bayou Liberty/Lacombe section of southeast Louisiana with its large population of creoles, All Saints Day is celebrated in quiet beauty.
DuBuisson Cemetery (http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/sttammany/cemeteries/dubuiss.txt)is a very old graveyard that dates back to the 1800's.
Every All Saints Day, the graves are cleaned and small candles are lit right around dusk. Seeing this creates a most ethereal feeling. I haven't been there for several years and the last time I went I had to keep an eye on two young children who wanted to climb all over the graves. My daughter is now away at college and I’m thinking that perhaps hubby and I may visit Dubuisson Cemetary tonight.
Bonfouca has many different pronounciations: "BON FOO KA" "BON FUCK A" "BONNA FOOKA". Take your choice. :)
I do love the history that comes with All Saints Day, though. Living in the Bayou Liberty/Lacombe section of southeast Louisiana with its large population of creoles, All Saints Day is celebrated in quiet beauty.
DuBuisson Cemetery (http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/sttammany/cemeteries/dubuiss.txt)is a very old graveyard that dates back to the 1800's.
Every All Saints Day, the graves are cleaned and small candles are lit right around dusk. Seeing this creates a most ethereal feeling. I haven't been there for several years and the last time I went I had to keep an eye on two young children who wanted to climb all over the graves. My daughter is now away at college and I’m thinking that perhaps hubby and I may visit Dubuisson Cemetary tonight.
Bonfouca has many different pronounciations: "BON FOO KA" "BON FUCK A" "BONNA FOOKA". Take your choice. :)
Saints' 44th Birthday
A repeat from a year ago. http://thanks-katrina.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-bday-saints.html
The Saints are celebrating their 44th Birthday AND a win last night against the Steelers.
WHO DAT
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
A use for some of that BP Oil
found at Gizmodo.com
From something so horrible comes something pretty eye-catching—and beneficial for the charity the profits support.
From scooping up the oil, to the gunk being used as paint in the screen-printer, the photos paint a story of the BP oil disaster six months later. Burrill said of his posters "here is a perception among many people that the oil in the Gulf of Mexico is just going to somehow disappear…For people in the Gulf, including Louisiana, the effects of this disaster will be around for a long time."
Profits for the sale of the 200 posters will be donated to the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, a voluntary organization that protects and restores the coastline. They cost $210 each (after converting from 150 Euros), which isn't cheap, but considering they're limited edition screen-prints signed by the artist and for a worthy cause, I'm sure they'll be snapped up in no time.
New Hurricane Museum
From nola dot com
The Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans remembers the devastation and showcase the renewal with a new exhibit years in the making. Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond is a $7.5 million exhibit opening on the ground floor of the historic Presbytere in the French Quarter’s Jackson Square. The 6,700 square-foot installation tells the stories of real people caught in the hurricane’s wrath. It tells of their rescue, recovery, rebuilding and renewal in a way certain to move both those who survived the storms of 2005 and those who watched the events unfold on TV.
The show is billed by the museum as the largest hurricane exhibition in the world, and it covers a lot of ground: the nature of hurricanes, Hurricane Betsy and other storms that hit New Orleans in the past, levee engineering, coastal marshes, Hurricane Rita and of course the full story of Katrina’s impact, from evacuation to flooding to the city’s gradual repopulation, rebuilding and recovery.
The first object that will meet visitors’ eyes is one of the most striking: a ruined Steinway baby grand piano recovered from Fats Domino’s flooded Lower 9th Ward home.
A pair of blue jeans shows the identification and medical information their owner wrote on them in case he was injured or killed as he sought help.
One of the most memorable items is the “Mabry wall,” the daily diary that B.W. Cooper housing complex resident Tommie Elton Mabry wrote on the walls of his apartment with a black felt tip marker, starting the day before the storm hit and continuing for weeks afterward. The museum staff painstakingly peeled off the paint bearing his journal before the building was demolished.
Besides actual artifacts, exhibits incorporate some of the hundreds of oral histories the museum has assembled. Some of them play while a simulated helicopter hovers overhead, recalling the aerial rescues of stranded residents.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
wake up BP, Feds....it's still there!
MATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE A boat travels through oil that was spotted in West Bay just west of the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River Friday October 22, 2010.
Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana fishers Friday found miles-long strings of weathered oil floating toward fragile marshes on the Mississippi River delta.
The discovery, which comes as millions of birds begin moving toward the region in the fall migration, gave ammunition to groups that have insisted the government has overstated clean-up progress, and could force reclosure of key fishing areas only recently reopened.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Criminals Is Stupid
Here's what Slidell cops have to deal with:
Sale of oregano in place of marijuana leaves three with records in St. Tammany
Courtesy of nola dot com, the following story
(must be a slow news day)
A Slidell area man this week pleaded guilty to drug charges stemming from his sale of oregano, which he passed off as marijuana, and is scheduled to receive a sentence of seven years behind bars.
Another Slidell man got five years of probation for his role in the oregano sale, and the man who bought the oregano received two years of probation.
In June, Joshua Harris, 22, passed off a large bag of oregano as marijuana and was successful in making a $210 sale. But, Joshua Davis, who'd made arrangements to purchase marijuana from Harris and Anthony Batiste that day, was angry after he realized he'd been duped and immediately called authorities.
Davis, 18, of Slidell, told St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies on June 4 that Harris had stolen $210 from him, but he failed to mention the true contention: that Harris simply had failed to provide him with the proper herb. Yet Davis got in hot water when deputies learned the true story, especially after they searched Davis and found a marijuana joint on him.
Harris pleaded guilty on Tuesday to possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and two counts of possession of legend drugs without a prescription. Deputies found pills on him at the time of his arrest, along with a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
State Judge Martin Coady announced he would sentence Harris to seven years in prison, but the official sentencing hearing is scheduled for next month. Harris was charged in part through a section of the law that states selling "a counterfeit controlled dangerous substance" carries the same penalties as selling the actual substance.
Harris admitted to the charges against him mid-trial on Tuesday after noticing that both Davis and Batiste were prepared to testify against him, according to the St. Tammany district attorney's office.
Assistant District Attorney Harold Bartholomew prosecuted the case.
Batiste, 21, of Slidell, pleaded guilty on Monday to attempted possession with intent to distribute the counterfeit drug, and Coady gave him five years of probation under the condition that he would testify against Harris, according to the district attorney's office.
And while Davis initially was also charged with a felony marijuana charge, that charge was reduced for both helping the deputies and agreeing to testify against Harris, authorities said.
On Monday, Davis pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors, possession of marijuana first offense - for the joint in his pocket - and criminal mischief, for not telling the whole truth to police when he stated his $210 had simply been stolen. Davis was sentenced to two years of probation.
Sale of oregano in place of marijuana leaves three with records in St. Tammany
Courtesy of nola dot com, the following story
(must be a slow news day)
A Slidell area man this week pleaded guilty to drug charges stemming from his sale of oregano, which he passed off as marijuana, and is scheduled to receive a sentence of seven years behind bars.
Another Slidell man got five years of probation for his role in the oregano sale, and the man who bought the oregano received two years of probation.
In June, Joshua Harris, 22, passed off a large bag of oregano as marijuana and was successful in making a $210 sale. But, Joshua Davis, who'd made arrangements to purchase marijuana from Harris and Anthony Batiste that day, was angry after he realized he'd been duped and immediately called authorities.
Davis, 18, of Slidell, told St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies on June 4 that Harris had stolen $210 from him, but he failed to mention the true contention: that Harris simply had failed to provide him with the proper herb. Yet Davis got in hot water when deputies learned the true story, especially after they searched Davis and found a marijuana joint on him.
Harris pleaded guilty on Tuesday to possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and two counts of possession of legend drugs without a prescription. Deputies found pills on him at the time of his arrest, along with a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
State Judge Martin Coady announced he would sentence Harris to seven years in prison, but the official sentencing hearing is scheduled for next month. Harris was charged in part through a section of the law that states selling "a counterfeit controlled dangerous substance" carries the same penalties as selling the actual substance.
Harris admitted to the charges against him mid-trial on Tuesday after noticing that both Davis and Batiste were prepared to testify against him, according to the St. Tammany district attorney's office.
Assistant District Attorney Harold Bartholomew prosecuted the case.
Batiste, 21, of Slidell, pleaded guilty on Monday to attempted possession with intent to distribute the counterfeit drug, and Coady gave him five years of probation under the condition that he would testify against Harris, according to the district attorney's office.
And while Davis initially was also charged with a felony marijuana charge, that charge was reduced for both helping the deputies and agreeing to testify against Harris, authorities said.
On Monday, Davis pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors, possession of marijuana first offense - for the joint in his pocket - and criminal mischief, for not telling the whole truth to police when he stated his $210 had simply been stolen. Davis was sentenced to two years of probation.
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