AP via Yahoo News: Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead.

Anyone surprised?

Meanwhile, from the Biloxi Sun-Herald: Infant dolphins dying in high numbersBaby dolphins, some barely three feet in length, are washing up along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines at 10 times the normal rate of stillborn and infant deaths, researchers are ( Read more... )

Damn. We lost New Orleans blogger Ashley Morris

Some of his impassioned & articulate rants in the aftermath of the Katrina disaster:

Fuck You, You Fucking Fucks (Warning: Contains the "F Word")

Sinn Fein

American BiafraI only had a priviledge to meet him briefly at such events as the Krewe du Vieux and the big March on 11 January 2007. I'll ( Read more... )

Two short musical obits I posted elsewhere on LiveJournal:

John Arpin, amazing ragtime pianist

Doc Paulin, trumpeter bandleader; over 100 years old (he may never have been sure when he was born himself).

Speaking of things musical and dating back more than a century:

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Film maker Stevenson Palfi, Times-Picayune obit First aquantance among the post-Katrina suicides. A friend of friends. I have happy memories of him at some of the music & discussion salons the late Al Rose used to give. His films are likely to outlive anyone who ever met him. RIP, man.


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My last surviving grandparent is gone.

My maternal grandmother died at age 96. This was not unexpected.

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Last month I mentioned using the phrase "far out" to describe something at a gig ( Read more... )

Two items from today's news:

From CNN: "The death toll from the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center has been revised down to 3,050, the New York Office of Emergency Management said Saturday. "
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From CommonDreams: "More than 3,500 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan by U.S. bombs, according to a ( Read more... )