See You There!

At Rising Tide 2.

But I won't see you here at da po' blog. I am not posting here anymore. I am posting under my name on another blog, which shouldn't be too hard to find.

Thanks for reading. Later, da po' boy.

Just Felt Like I Needed to Link to This

From The Elements of Style:

Omit needless words.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

Thank you, Mr. McGannon.

Happy Chocolate City Day

Lil po' boy has Chocolate City Day off from school, which made the following exchange possible:

da po' boy: My foot's asleep.

lil po' boy: That's called "stitches and noodles."

da po' boy: You mean "pins and needles?"

lil po' boy: Yeah. "Stitches and noodles."

Also, his first words to me when we woke up this morning: "I had a dream... [long pause for effect]."

I have high hopes for this boy.

Speaking of New Orleans. . .

I started this weblog four days before I packed my family in a car and ran from a storm called Katrina. I wanted to speak for my city, New Orleans. I wanted to promote what was going right in my city, shine a light on what was going wrong, and hold the powerful accountable for the plight of the powerless. While I believe these goals to be valiant before the storm, I see them as essential after Katrina. The problems of my city are now out in the open. The solutions are scattered somewhere in the debris that still lines our streets weeks after the hurricane made landfall. As New Orleanians return to their city, they are going to talk about what happened. And they are going to talk about it like only New Orleanians can. And they are going to find solutions like only New Orleanians can.

Down here, we speak a different language. We speak New Orleans.

On this blog, I’m going to speak New Orleans. Feel free to listen.