Who dat? Certainly not the robots.
Posted by Shannon
“When you have Optimus Prime AND Master Chief cheering from the Superdome, is there really any doubt which team is superior?” - io9
Tags: cyborgs, halo, master chief, New Orleans, optimus prime, robots, saints, transformersShould you go to New Orleans?
Posted by Muffuletta
Well duh. But, more to the point, duh according to the 2008 Frommer’s Guide to New Orleans, which opines thusly:
Go, because everything in life is fragile and precarious, and we can take nothing for granted, and some day it really will all be gone. Go, because it’s not gone, not at all. Go, because the things you wanted — the beautiful architecture, the majestic oaks, the river wind, the quality of light that makes even the most mundane just a little bit magic — all remain. Go, because there are people there, and as long as they are, there will be music and food, and it will be some of the best of your life. Go, because perhaps you’ve wanted to help in any way you can, and now the best way you can is to help a historic city regain its economic feet. Go, because every brick in the French Quarter has a story to tell, and so does the damaged ground of the Ninth Ward, and you should bear witness. Go, because there is much to celebrate, and this is still the best place there is to do so.
The Frommer book also has a good introductory article on New Orleans. (Thanks to the branch manager at the Hubbell Library, who blogged this at the NOPL MySpace page.)
Tags: architecture, frommer's, impermanence, Katrina, New Orleans, new orleans public library, nopl, oaks, tourism, transience, travelA country road. A tree. Evening.
Posted by Shannon
Tags: Katrina, New Orleans, ninth ward, samuel beckett, theatre, waiting for godotThere is perhaps no more fitting backdrop for a production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot—whose main characters, Didi and Gogo, spend two acts waiting for a man who never arrives—than New Orleans, where some residents died waiting for rescue after Katrina struck and others still have yet to see their neighborhoods rebuilt.
Earlier this month, the Classical Theatre of Harlem, together with Creative Time, a New York-based art collective, wrapped up a two-week run of Beckett’s most renowned work with a final production in the Gentilly neighborhood. The play’s organizers had to turn people away the weekend before, when Didi and Gogo did their waiting in the still-decimated Lower Ninth Ward.