A few more great deals on new DVDs

I posted a few more excellent deals on DVDs over at The Magic Cafe. All are brand new, never opened duplicate sets that have been accumulating here for a while. Snap these up if you are interested — I’ll ship them free to USA destinations: THE RESTAURANT MAGIC OF DAN FLESHMAN 3-DVD set FALKENSTEIN & […]

Back to normal.

Okay, things are back to normal. Mostly. Time to catch up with the magazines and emails that have been piling up. So, while I’m doing that, take a look at a number of DVD sets I’m selling over at The Magic Cafe’s, “Let’s Make a Deal” section. All of these DVDs are brand new, unopened […]

Not quite back to normal.

Well, things aren’t quite back to normal — there are still a few thousand people living their daily lives in a shelter not far from here and they still need a hand. Worse, still, they are likely to continue living there for another seven or eight weeks. many, many more are continuing their daily lives […]

Update.

Well, since it’s been a few days since my last post, I thought a quick update was in order. Things have been — busy. So far, private donations of Katrina hurricane relief efforts have topped $700,000,000 . This tells me a couple of things. First, my belief in the basic kindness and decency of most […]

What New Orleans looked like 10am Wednesday

AP satellite photo

Blog Relief Day extended

N.Z. Bear announced that the success of getting blogs to participate in the Katrina Blog Relief Day led to a decision to extend it to Blog Relief Weekend. More details in my post just below this one. Technorati tags: flood aid Hurricane Katrina

Help. Please.

Hugh Hewitt, Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) and aN.Z. Bear (Truth Laid Bear)are spearheading a blogburst — a Hurricane Katrina Relief Day Fundraiser — today, September 1, 2005, to help people devastated by hurricane Katrina. I am participating and, if you have a blog, would you do so too? Sign up at Truth Laid Bear. Glenn has […]

And it’s not just New Orleans.

Naturally, New Orleans is getting lots of attention. But the Mississippi Gulf Coast has been nearly erased by Katrina. WLBT TV posted a video shot from a helicopter this morning. The word “devastation” doesn’t seem to cover it, really. If you have a moment, you should watch what television news coverage couldn’t capture when it […]

New Orleans annihilated?

The Times Picayune, the paper of record for me growing up in the New Orleans area, has gone to an online edition-only today. In an article just posted titled, “Will New Orleans Survive?”, writer James Varney says: On the southern fringe of New Orleans’ City Park there is a live oak with a branch that […]

Katrina, the monster.

I’ve been through many hurricanes. This is going to sound weird, but some of my fondest memories of childhood are from hurricanes. My childhood home was a former turn-of-the-century Catholic rectory that was built to withstand the gulf’s hurricanes. So, when the hurricanes came to the Gulf south, family and friends camped out at our […]