Batten down the hatches

Here we GO Citizens! Raising my Pat O's glass to the hopes that we have the most NON-eventful season in history!

Some Anti-Hurricane VOODOO for your amusement:

When a hurricane threatens your area, take a sharp knife (but not a ritual knife) and go outdoors, facing the direction of the blowing wind. Take the knife in hand, and wave it over your head three times in a great circle while saying:

I call upon thee, elementals air and water! Go wherever ye please, But stay thou far away from me! Throughout the oceans ye may roam! But nowhere near to my own home! For kith and kin are thee to me, As I will, so mote it be.

CHEERS ya'll!

Ditto to Markus

Playing the hand you're dealt ~ by Markus @ WetBankGuide

"The election is over. I'll leave it to another post and other commentators to take apart the victory of C. Ray Nagin as mayor, but I'm prepared to live with it. . . .

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"Mr. Mayor, I've gambled everything on trying to come home, to join in the rebuilding of the city. I supported you against your critics all through the Fall, patiently (and then angrily) explained about the evacuation, the city emergency plan, the foibles of FEMA and the disinterest of the federal government, just as you have."

Read the rest here @ WetBankGuide

Mother's Day Lunch at Galatoire's

Happy Mother's Day

Nagin falls apart after Katrina

In an exclusive excerpt from the new book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (William Morrow, 2006) by Vanity Fair contributing editor Douglas Brinkley, Governor Kathleen Blanco calls Mayor Ray Nagin "a total void," during the Katrina crisis. She tells Brinkley that she was flabbergasted by Nagin's behavior and that when she met him aboard Air Force One for a meeting with the president five days after Katrina hit New Orleans, she feared he was coming unglued. "It was bizarre," she tells Brinkley. "Nagin was falling apart." (The June issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on May 3 and nationally on May 9.)

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