• WWL-TV Radar
• WWL-TV live video
• Times-Picayune Hurricane Coverage
• Times-Picayune Abita forum
• St. Tammany Parish government
• National Hurricane Center
• Big resource list from JefTek [thanks nik]

But I’m safe at home despite the best efforts of yay-hoos between Vegas and LBC.

A: Bryce Canyon National Park.

My little hotel is right on the Green River. I have a balcony up in the trees. Here is a pix of sunset on the river. What it doesn’t show are the dozens of tiny swallow-shaped birds hunting the dusk-feeding insects over the water. Very pretty, very peaceful after a long day of jockeying [...]

I’ve always been a big union booster, but you can keep Labor Day. That’s the holiday when any yay-hoo with a truck hitches a trailer-load of ATVs to it and drives through the Rockies like it’s a freakin’ NASCAR event — the Idiotapolis 300.
I’m going to pull into the pits at Green River, UT [...]

Leaving lovely Denver now, headed west and home. This little visit to history has been fun, but I’m so tired! It will be a short driving day today, just a hop over the Rockies to Grand Junction, but of course, I’m already running a little late. So off I go … more from the open [...]

That speech was really incredible. Plus, how do you like the color coordination of the Obama family wardrobe. Nice. Too busy gushing to gush.

Last night, when the Dems first string speechifiers were on stage, I was being treated to a fine birthday meal at the urban-swank Vesta Dipping Grill (thank you super-host Andrew). So this morning, I broke out the laptop to watch John and Joe and, of course, Bill, do their thing. It was a good start [...]

The HFJ are out in force in downtown Denver — their message: perverts will burn and you’re all perverts. So typical that I almost didn’t notice this group, despite their bullhorn. But there was this kid calling them out for their hateful ways, quoting scripture right back in their red faces, all the while juggling [...]

Walked all over downtown Denver this am — and tho there are lots of people on the street — things are quiet — sleepy even. I grab a spot on a shady bench near one of the convention bus stops to blog to you and watch the world go by.
On one corner a guy [...]

Oh, I’m still a Dem, I just can’t party anymore. I guess Andrew and I put away a bottle plus of wine pretty fast last night, carelessly, in the rush of talk about politics, protest, art, business, workouts, religion, sweethearts and the future of newspapers. A little after midnight — not feeling particularly sloshed — [...]

I am safe at Andrew’s very nice Denver digs … Where I’ve been fêted in wonderful style … The widow, yummy crabcakes, outrageous desserts (pictured here) … And the premier showing of Andrew’s civil unrest video shot from the D Post’s roof today. A perfect beginning to my DNC … But for now, gotta [...]

Greetings from Green River UT … Tanked up ($4.19/gal) … Blogged up (another gas station in the desert, another perfectly good Internet connex) … Got to fly … Rockies still between me & the dnc ( and Andrew & the veuve) …

SOME REST STOP IN UTAH — Utah is so majestic that it is hard to keep my eyes on the road! I’m running parallel to some kind of weather line that’s keeping me cool in the shade. Here’s a cloud pix. Got to make time now — blog ya l8tr …

Around 6 pm, I started to feel like quitting the blast furnace, so I asked the phone for motels in St. George, UT and in a few secs I was talking to the good folks at the Best Western. They had this nice snug room with high ceilings — it is clean, comfy and COOLED. [...]

Not a surprise; I got a late start to Denver. It was noon as I was easing the little Element up and over the Cajon Pass. Everything shimmering with heat. As I went over the pass my NPR station fizzes into static. I let it go … Hoping against hope that Ira Glass would return [...]

Testing out my new 55-200mm lens on pelicans fishing at Bolsa Chica.

The wedding of Josh and Adrie was Sunday in Laurie’s lovely and welcoming garden. Above, we all wish them Mazel Tov as the couple keeps the tradition of breaking a glass underfoot and the ceremony comes to a close. And below — just before the glass breaking — I read my official line from the [...]

… and buys some crazy-assed laser-etched plexiglass eyeglasses from Italy. A new look for the old face, plus: I can see again. Oh world, full of detail! These glasses from ÉTÉ, a Florentine company with a French name, are etched with floral pattern of chardon — that’s thistles, for we who speak anglais. Somehow thistles [...]

Today, we rolled out the cool new literary event search features at CaliforniaAuthors. The result of a nice partnership with BookTour.com, CaliforniaAuthors users can now search — right from the pages of our site — for events listed in the big-and-growing BookTour event database. CSS/php master Val did a really beautiful job with the coding [...]