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In case I have any readers in the Lafayette, Louisiana area who might be interested, COG, the Confabulation of Gentry, is to play at the Lafayette Steampunk Festival Saturday 10 Nov. As I understand it, there will free Steampunk events on and around the 100 block of Vine Street from 10am on. I believe our 5pm show is the last free admission event; at 7p there will be a cabaret show at the theater which is paid admission. (If they have a full schedule on line, I couldn't find it. There is this link however: http://citedesarts.org/Cite_des_Arts/Steampunk_Fest_2012.html )

Hi from Louisiana, "The Disaster State".

We left Austin this morning and headed East. Before Beaumont the dammage from Rita was very evident along I-10, continuing through Lake Charles, LA. Buildings with walls &/or roofs off, a few collapsed piles of rubble, many many tattered billboards, some highway signs twisted, bent, or blown away.

Things look worst right around the LA/Tex border. The Louisiana Welcome Station was closed, with bits of roof missing.

We're having a late lunch in Lafayette, which is relatively unscathed, being west of Katrina and east of Rita. We're at Bisbano's Pizza,

mshollie's old hangout from a quarter century ago when she was a freshgal at University of Louisiana Lafayette. Back then they didn't have wireless internet access here.

Ah, our food has arrived. Eat, then on to Baton Rouge.