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September 3, 2005

Doors never closed at this Big Easy bar; Slow response bewilders former FEMA officials; The genesis of gonzo

Updated 12.42 p.m.
Doors never closed at this Big Easy bar: Nice Toronto Star report from the French Quarter.

Updated 12.00 p.m.
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Adding: The Lafayette Advertiser in Cajun country. Galleries: Connecting Evacuees, Loved Ones. If you're from a hurricane evacuation zone, you can see if your loved ones are among those taking shelter at the Cajundome.

The Houma (La.) Courier: Its Refugee Resource Center

The Hattiesburg (Miss.) American

3.32 a.m.Favre family describes ordeal: Biloxi Sun-Herald visits the Green Bay QB's ruined family compound on Rotten Bayou in Mississippi.

Fats Domino was rescued from his third-floor deck by boat Monday after water rose 20 feet around his home, taken to a Baton Rouge shelter, and spent the next few days in LSU quarterback JaMarcus Russell's apartment with about 20 other people. AP moved the photo of the pair above. Domino was a family friend of JaMarcus's girlfriend. (I can imagine him thinking, who do I know near this shelter?) WaPo story here.

He's gone again, according to Russell, probably in search of a quieter crib.

Irma Thomas and many other New Orleans musicians are okay, according to Looka! blogger Chuck Taggart, a New Orleans native and L.A. DJ. Thomas sent an email out from Gonzales, La., saying her daughter lost everything but they're okay. (Scroll down -- he's ganged a whole day's worth there.)

Now let's hear from Alex Chilton, pictured above (more photos), of Big Star and The Box Tops ("my baby just sent me a letter...."). The Replacements even wrote a song about him. (Alex Chilton, clip)

The Palm Beach Post tomorrow notes a new Big Star album due out later this month: "In Space, Big Star. The obscure cult darlings release their first album in three decades, with Alex Chilton backed up by members of The Posies. Expect lots of critical swooning. Sept. 27."

The Politics of Water. Uh-oh.

Doc Searls does a grand roundup of Katrina links you won't see anywhere else.

Chicago Tribune: Slow response bewilders former FEMA officials

Baton Rouge storm blogger Kaye Trammell has an in the Washington Post today: op-ed Slogging, and Blogging, Through Katrina

...my readers were able to get firsthand accounts of the storm and know that I was weathering it safely.

My own motivations changed through the day. I was without power, sitting alone in my dark apartment with winds howling all around me. My blog was the only thing keeping me calm. It connected me to people out there waiting for my next post. These people were talking back to me, feeding me information from the outside world about what was happening. Even though this was my first hurricane "alone," it was also my first in which I was comforted by thousands from around the world...

The Australian:

...Residents and patrolling police voiced relief that one of the country's most eccentric and irrepressible neighbourhoods and most of the famed French Quarter tourist attractions had survived relatively unscathed compared with other areas of the city.

"We fared well," said Jimmy Brennan, part-owner of the famous Brennan's Restaurant on Royal Street.

"I hate to say it, but it turned into a hurricane party ... we've had a great time," he said.

Jimmy might call the rest of the family who escaped to Houston except.... The Chron reports (Restaurant clan gathers in Houston, awaits news from home),

With nothing but uncertainty to go on, the Commander's Palace wing of New Orleans' famed Brennan's restaurant family gathered in Houston Tuesday to regroup....

(In a family split in 1974, Brennan's in the French Quarter was taken over by cousins, now estranged.)

Whew, that must be one bitter split when nobody will drop a dime on either end.

The genesis of gonzo: The Guardian (U.K.) "When Tom Wolfe clashed with the New Yorker in 1965, a new style of journalism was born. Marc Weingarten salutes the pioneers who reinvented reporting"

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Posted by: Jennifer on September 5, 2005 11:53 AM