Bornfamous

Why is it so hard to get started again after stopping for a while? The law of inertia is true for blogging, yoga, cleaning house, paying bills, having sex–everything. And the older I get, the harder it gets to get moving. What a surprise. But enough complaining. It’s all just an excuse to explain why [...]

From my Yoga Journal newsletter:
If you’d like to practice karma yoga and be of service to the relief effort, you have many choices.
Amurt, an international group of yogis and other volunteers, is providing food and stress management. The group may also open its national retreat site in Willow Springs, MO, to hundreds of refugees. [...]

Couldn’t find a shot of this online but I saw it on Dateline: NBC last night — a story about how the French Quarter survived Katrina with no flooding and no major damage. The folks that are left there are even in a party mood, putting on their traditional Labor Day barbecue, complete with a [...]

From the New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially.
In a nationally televised interview Thursday night, he said his agency hadn’t known until that day that thousands of storm victims were stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. He gave another nationally televised interview the [...]

A member of the Army reserves reams out our President:
Today, you addressed the nation, and admitted that you made some mistakes - that everyone involved in the relief effort made some mistakes. That’s not good enough. Apologies won’t bring back the people who died needlessly. As the highest authority in the land, you can’t afford [...]

Want to know how you can help Katrina victims in a way that will truly make a difference? been there is acting as a clearinghouse for private relief efforts. Amazing things are going on. Just amazing.
I’m so proud of ordinary Americans. Bureaucrats and politicians, not so proud..

Spray-painted sign on New Orleans fence: “Don’t even try. I’m sleeping inside with a big dog, an ugly woman and a claw hammer.”

I’d just like to ask one thing: Why the HELL is WalMart allowed to sell guns?!
The Times:
On the radio we hear reports of the chaos inside the city: dozens of carjackings by survivors desperate to escape. Armed gangs ransacking jewellers and clothing shops; the entire gun stock of a Walmart store looted; staff and patients [...]

From the Los Angeles Times:
Fats Domino was missing today, days after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, said his longtime agent, Al Embry.
Embry told The Associated Press that he hadn’t been able to contact Domino since talking to him Sunday evening by phone.
The 77-year-old R&B legend, whose real name is Antoine Domino…has a home in the [...]

From KUTV in Salt Lake City:
An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet.
“I don’t treat my dog like [...]

Orionoir never fails to make me smile, laugh and sometimes cry:

picture this: you’re trapped in the superdome no air conditioning no toilets no saints tb found, now they’re moving you to the astrodome. i don’t know about you, but i’d be inclined to whine just a little bit. why not that big spread [...]

People are using craigslist to search for lost loved ones in New Orleans.

The Interdictor is blogging from the 10th story of a datacenter in downtown New Orleans:
It is a zoo out there though, make no mistake. It’s the wild kingdom. It’s Lord of the Flies. That doesn’t mean there’s murder on every street corner. But what it does mean is that the rule of law has collapsed, [...]