Comments on: It’s Hurricane Season: Know Where Your Levee Is?

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:46:34 +0000

Thank you for blogging about New Orleans. I’m living and blogging from New Orleans, and we have our good days and our bad days. Give us better levees and I think we can do the rest.

It sounds funny, but your friend who got the rejection letter from FEMA should be happy. It’s a good thing as I explained in my blog back in January in my post:
http://timsnamelessblog.blogsp.....rwork.html

Thanks again! Peace,

Tim

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:57:43 +0000

Unfortunately I have read him. Go back and click the link I posted a few comments ago and I’ll elaborate for you. I’m not trying to be mean.. I just.. really hate Chris Rose.

By: Alma

Alma — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:43:50 +0000

It sounds to me like you really haven’t read Chris Rose’s columns or his book.

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:31:00 +0000

He is devoted to yuppie bullshit. Rose is the worst thing about that paper.. and that’s saying something. Everything he writes is self-congratulatory faux hipster poseurism at best and seriously damaging to what is left of authentic New Orleans at worst. Remember.. before the storm.. this guy’s beat was Hollywood gossip and American Idol coverage. Writing about Katrina’s aftermath has been a nice boost to his career. I’m sure he’ll get a nice raise from his next employer when he decides to leave New Orleans for “somewhere safer” in the next six months or so.

By: Alma

Alma — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:58:35 +0000

jeffrey, you couldn’t be more wrong about Chris Rose. He is absolutely marvelous and the city loves him. Try going to a book signing — you won’t even get close enough to see him. He has helped people in New Orleans to keep up the spirit and ALWAYS elicits a smile or two with an outloud chuckle in every column. He is devoted to New Orleans. You are WRONG.

By: Alma

Alma — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:53:30 +0000

Hi, I wanted to post the link to Chris Rose’s site for his book. (author of 1 Dead in Attic). Proceeds from every sale of this book will be shared with ARTDOCS and the Tipitina’s Foundation — rebuilding New Orleans, one song at a time.

By: emeldir

emeldir — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:52:48 +0000

I was sick tuesday and so was at home to see Oprah do a fearmongering show on birdflu. The message was: after Katrina, you are on your own, do not expect the government to help you period. So big money media is passing along the Bush swan song- we’re on our own, don’t know where, don’t know when…( remember that was the last song in Dr Strangelove) Make sure the american people expect nothing from their incompetent money swilling government. The radical right has normalized incompetent government that owes it’s citizens nothing.

By: Kevin Hayden

Kevin Hayden — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:38:13 +0000

Keep up the good reportage on the ongoing neglect, Christy. This is the ongoing shame of the nation and the most visible evidence of its failed leadership.

This is the final outcome of the GOP’s Southern Strategy.

By: WenG

WenG — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:58:14 +0000

Chimp could move himself and the dogs into a Gulf Coast White House for the season. It would be a real time saver. No more shutting down air space for fly overs, no more photo ops with dirt. He could be right in the thick of it, in the fox holes, as Nixon once said.

By: Curious Jim

Curious Jim — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:44:14 +0000

I’m headed to NOLA for 4th of July weekend — gf has a house in the FQ. We will have a car for a quick getaway if necessary.