End of November update

[infrogmation]

The roofers are zipping along at a good pace; I may have my new roof finished by tomorrow.

I have a local contractor supervising an otherwise all Maya crew from Chiapas and Guatemala.

I've talked to lots of folks who rode out the storm, the majority of whom say they wouldn't do so again. Yesterday I had the first incident of one of my neighbors who stuck around berate me for having left. "You know it never floods here", I was told. Um, I do know that we're on higher ground than most of the city, but I didn't know what this storm would do. And I'm not fond of sticking around when winds are blowing windows out, roofs off, and walls down, and sending shards of broken glass flying at speeds great enough to drive them into wooden walls like nails. Even if it doesn't flood.

Comments

[machinaqueous.livejournal.com]

Did you check out the article in 'Jazz Times" magazine about New Orleans Jazz in 1960?

Jazz Times

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Nope. Was a new article, or a reprint of something?

Lots of folks seem to be writing about us now, but New Orleans still isn't getting magazines delivered, so we don't get to see it.

Re: Jazz Times

[machinaqueous.livejournal.com]

It was a reprint of something in the sixties. It talked about how people outside of New Orleans thought that jazz was dead and it also addressed the growing number of striptease shows and the overall commercialization of jazz.