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Books

Poetry and fried eggs

“Even the greatest poets can’t express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances. The best way to deal with it is to fry eggs for refugees.”

Andrei Codrescu, Romanian refugee and Baton Rouge resident, who has a house full of evacuees from New Orleans (“The entire poetry cadre of the French Quarter is in my house,” he says.).
Quoted in today’s New York Times Magazine

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Dog Bob

Killing dogs in New Orleans

I know it seems trivial compared to what the people of New Orleans are going through, but this Dallas Morning News video of a redneck cop shooting people’s pets in New Orleans is about as disturbing as disturbing gets.

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Music Bob

The Ace of Spades …

I didn’t think it possible, but there’s actually a bluegrass version of Motorhead’s Ace of Spades. And it’s pretty damn good.