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 & […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]