Category Archives: orleans

Neighbor Off His Meds

Written by Peter. Posted on September 29, 2008. Filed under fauborg, orleans. No comments.
Neighbor Off His Meds
Our office neighbor is an odd bird.  Relatively cordial when he’s on his medication, he occasionally goes off the grid and takes to letting his house collapse around him, throwing trash all over the yard and street, and wandering around naked.  Most recently, something he was doing was enough to alarm the NOFD.  Another day [...]

Neo-Nazi Jessica Simpson.

Written by Peter. Posted on September 26, 2008. Filed under consumer, katrina, orleans, politics, trend, vids. No comments.
Neo-Nazi Jessica Simpson.
Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> From Wikipedia: On September 23 2008, LaBruzzo raised controversy by proposing that women receiving government welfare should be sterilized. The proposal was criticized by opponents as “racist, sexist, unethical and immoral.” The sterilization proposal has a great deal in common with a previous proposal by Neo-Nazi David Duke, [...]

Home Sweet Home

Written by Peter. Posted on September 11, 2008. Filed under katrina, orleans, politics. No comments.
Home Sweet Home
Got back from our Gustav evacuation, and was at our offices this morning when I noticed the new modification to our neighbor’s car. Yikes.

Banksy in New Orleans.

Written by Peter. Posted on August 28, 2008. Filed under banksy, brand, design, fauborg, graffiti, guerrilla, katrina, orleans, politics, pranks. No comments.
Banksy in New Orleans.
Wow. Great stuff, commenting on the 3rd anniversary of Katrina - UK guerrilla artist Banksy murals New Orleans.

Banksy in New Orleans??

Written by Peter. Posted on August 28, 2008. Filed under banksy, brand, design, fauborg, graffiti, guerrilla, katrina, orleans, politics, pranks. No comments.
Banksy in New Orleans??
Rumors and evidence of possible Banksy work (or closely derived from his work) seen in New Orleans, on the 3rd anniversary of Katrina. Small photoset here.

Know-Nothing Politics

Written by Peter. Posted on August 8, 2008. Filed under consumer, katrina, orleans, politics, trend. No comments.
Know-Nothing Politics
Now, I don’t mean that G.O.P. politicians are, on average, any dumber than their Democratic counterparts. And I certainly don’t mean to question the often frightening smarts of Republican political operatives. What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something [...]

Must be a New Orleanian.

Written by Peter. Posted on July 31, 2008. Filed under design, graffiti, guerrilla, katrina, orleans, politics, pranks. No comments.
Must be a New Orleanian.

Muddy Waters

Written by Peter. Posted on July 24, 2008. Filed under dirty, orleans, politics. No comments.
Muddy Waters
Jul 24, 2008 (The Politico) So why exactly did Sen. John McCain cancel an event yesterday on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana? According to the McCain campaign, the event was canceled over weather concerns. However, that explanation is not sitting well with Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, who claims McCain [...]

Geauxbama!

Written by Peter. Posted on July 15, 2008. Filed under advertising, brand, design, dirty, graffiti, guerrilla, orleans, politics, shirts, trend. No comments.
Geauxbama!
Check out the killer Geauxbama shirts & stickers from hipster haberdashers Dirty Coast!

Rainbow in Marrero

Written by Peter. Posted on June 18, 2008. Filed under dirty, guerrilla, orleans, pranks, vids. No comments.
Rainbow in Marrero
A Rainbow In Marrero from ballzack on Vimeo.