October 26, 2005
I'm fired
tipton holdings cut me loose
last nite
by e mail
the message's nut???
your baron's
" special skills"
are no longer
" essential
to the continuation of
our mission down there "
" good job
good luck " and good gravy
dear faithful
dirty minded ladies :
i'll have the profane details
at eleven
============================
Posted by the baron at 02:12 PM | Comments (0)
nagin spreads em
the bosses' koon has
run up the white flag
" brothers and sisters most of you
ain't comin back ...
to stay any way "
=====================================
wash post :
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 25 --
Mayor C. Ray Nagin,
who has vowed to resurrect
his crippled city
conceded Tuesday
that New Orleans will shrink
to nearly half its pre-hurricane population
and will have to make do
with one-third of its previous budget
With as many as 250,000 homes
uninhabitable
and some neighborhoods
still lacking basic services
Nagin estimated the city's
shattered infrastructure
could support 250,000 to 300,000 residents
over the next year
compared with
the half a million people
who lived here
before Hurricane Katrina struck Aug. 29"
" New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin
expects the city budget
to fall from $600 million
to $230 million
because of the evacuation
of residents
and the widespread damage
from Hurricane Katrina in late August"
"That's every available space,"
" Nagin said his staff
is scouring lists
of blighted properties
that could be renovated
for temporary housing
as well as scouting for
vacant lots,
parks and supermarket parking lots
to place thousands of trailers"
Two months after the worst natural disaster in modern U.S. history here, Nagin spoke from his second-floor office, where a copy of
"Rudolph W. Giuliani's book "Leadership"
is displayed next to the Mayor's conference table"
"it's out of my hands"
"Nagin, a Republican who switched
to the Democratic Party
to run for mayor"
"In a city that was 67 percent
African American
Nagin won by dominating
the vote in majority white districts"
" Many of those make up
the "geographic footprint"
he has identified
for repopulating after the hurricane"
"Even the election
has become entangled
in disaster recovery
Federal authorities
have denied requests
for the addresses
of Katrina evacuees
City and state officials
are battling with federal authorities
over the release of addresses
of evacuees
that could be used in absentee balloting
if and when the scheduled
february city primaries happen".
Nagin a former cable television executive
has floated the idea of letting New Orleanians
use electronic voting kiosks
similar to automatic teller machines
in cities across the United States.
"Whether we can pull that off
I'm not sure," he said.
"The hour is getting late."
"But it is housing
that has been the most nettlesome problem
facing Nagin
as well as federal officials
and private employers
working to put this wrecked city
back on its feet"
"the big thing we're doing
is trying to deal
with the temporary housing challenge."
The mayor's staff has identified more than a half-dozen locations that he said could support
4,000 trailers
The first few thousand units
will be set aside
for people involved in the reconstruction
"You jump to the front of the line if you come as a worker,"
"nudge some reluctant residents
out of hotels in other states
and into FEMA trailers"
Posted by the baron at 01:57 PM | Comments (0)
October 25, 2005
design flaws ????
katrina got some help
flooding new orleans
some where
along the line
but where and how ?????
========================
NEW ORLEANS -- Within a space of 15 hours on Aug. 29, three massive, concrete floodwalls in separate parts of the city suddenly fractured and burst under the weight of surging waters from Hurricane Katrina. The breaches unleashed a wall of water that swept entire buildings from their foundations and transformed what might have been a routine hurricane into the costliest storm in U.S. history.
Today, exactly eight weeks after the storm, all three breaches are looking less like acts of God and more like failures of engineering that could have been anticipated and very likely prevented.
A helicopter drops sandbags as repairs to the London Avenue Canal levee continue in New Orleans on Sept. 10. Investigators believe the floodwall atop the earthen levee was compromised by soft soil underneath it. (By David J. Phillip -- Associated Press)
Graphic
How New Orleans Flooded
The storm surge that overtopped levees protecting the Lower Ninth Ward was amplified by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a little-used shipping channel constructed by the Corps of Engineers in the 1950s and 1960s, a new computer model shows. Central New Orleans flooded when levees along the 17th Street and London Avenue drainage canals failed. Three teams of engineering experts are investigating whether design errors or other flaws played a role.
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Investigators in recent days have assembled evidence implicating design flaws in the failures of two floodwalls near Lake Pontchartrain that collapsed when weakened soils beneath them became saturated and began to slide. They also have confirmed that a little-used navigation canal helped amplify and intensify Katrina's initial surge, contributing to a third floodwall collapse on the east side of town. The walls and navigation canal were built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency responsible for defending the city against hurricane-related flooding.
The preliminary findings -- based on physical evidence, Corps documents and hydrodynamic models run through a Louisiana State University supercomputer -- are the work of three teams of engineers and forensic experts conducting separate probes. The investigations are shedding light not only on the cause of the failures but also the scale of the rebuilding effort: The discovery of major flaws in the design of the city's levees and floodwalls could add billions of dollars to the cost of New Orleans' recovery.
Investigators already have rejected the initial explanation offered by Corps officials in the hurricane's aftermath that massive storm surges had overtopped and overwhelmed floodwalls on the 17th Street and London Avenue canals on the north side of town. The new findings for the first time point to a human role in all three of the major floodwall failures that left about 100,000 homes underwater and caused most of Louisiana's approximately 1,000 hurricane deaths.
Experts now believe that Katrina was no stronger than a Category 3 storm when it roared into New Orleans, and Congress had directed the Corps to protect the city from just such a hurricane.
"This was not the Big One -- not even close," said Hassan Mashriqui, a storm surge expert at LSU's Hurricane Center. He said that Katrina would have caused some modest flooding and wind damage regardless, but that human errors turned "a problem into a catastrophe."
The National Science Foundation, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the state of Louisiana are all conducting investigations of the three major floodwall breaches and dozens of smaller ones. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced last week that the National Academies of science and engineering will lead a separate probe. The Corps has offered data and other assistance to the independent inquiries, but the agency has declined to speculate on the causes of the tragedy.
John Paul Woodley Jr., the assistant Army secretary overseeing the Corps, said it is still too early to cast blame for the drowning of New Orleans. But he said the Corps intends to learn from the Katrina investigations, and use the lessons to build stronger protections for the city.
"I'm not afraid of finding out the truth," Woodley said.
The independent investigations have pointed to two failures in the infrastructure maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers that were critical factors in the destruction Katrina wrought in New Orleans.
In 1965, the Corps completed the 76-mile-long, 36-foot-deep Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a larger dirt-moving project than the Panama Canal. The outlet -- known locally as MRGO, or "Mr. Go" -- created a navigation shortcut to the Port of New Orleans, although a little-used one that averages fewer than one ship a day. But the outlet also amounted to a funnel that would accelerate and enlarge any storm surges headed for the city's levees.
Three months before Katrina, Mashriqui told a room full of emergency managers that the outlet was a "critical and fundamental flaw" in the Corps' hurricane defenses, a "Trojan Horse" that could amplify storm surges 20 to 40 percent.
With the help of a supercomputer, Mashriqui has now concluded that the effect was even worse than he predicted.
A helicopter drops sandbags as repairs to the London Avenue Canal levee continue in New Orleans on Sept. 10. Investigators believe the floodwall atop the earthen levee was compromised by soft soil underneath it. (By David J. Phillip -- Associated Press)
Graphic
How New Orleans Flooded
The storm surge that overtopped levees protecting the Lower Ninth Ward was amplified by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a little-used shipping channel constructed by the Corps of Engineers in the 1950s and 1960s, a new computer model shows. Central New Orleans flooded when levees along the 17th Street and London Avenue drainage canals failed. Three teams of engineering experts are investigating whether design errors or other flaws played a role.
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The analysis shows that the outlet's "funnel" intensified the initial surge by 20 percent, raising the wall of water about three feet. But it also increased the velocity of the surge, which Mashriqui believes contributed to the scouring that undermined the levees and floodwalls along the outlet and Industrial Canal. He found that Katrina's surge moved through nearby Lake Borgne at less than 3 feet per second. But the rate was about 6 feet per second at the mouth of the funnel, and as much as 8 feet per second in the funnel.
Mashriqui also found that in the areas where the outlet had wiped out marshes and other wetlands, levees and floodwalls were much more likely to fail. In areas where the natural buffers remained, the manmade defenses held, even when they were overtopped.
"Without MRGO, the flooding would have been much less," he said. "The levees might have overtopped, but they wouldn't have been washed away."
Corps officials declined comment on the results of the modeling. But Corps spokesman Jason Fanselau said the agency's own data still point to a massive surge that exceeded the height of the Industrial Canal floodwall by more than a few feet.
"Katrina flat-out overwhelmed the system," he said. "There was a huge wall of surge that obliterated entire sections of the floodwall."
In the case of the 17th Street and London Avenue canals, the independent investigators believe the floodwalls themselves were the problem. The reason was the naturally soft soil made up of river silts and swampy peat that has been the bane of builders here for two centuries.
Investigators now believe the walls collapsed when the soils beneath them became saturated and began to shift under the weight of relatively modest surges from the lake. And newly released documents show that the Corps was aware years ago that a particularly unstable layer of soil lay beneath both floodwalls.
"These levees did not overtop, yet they failed anyway," said Peter Nicholson, an engineering professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and leader of the ASCE investigating team. "It's important that we find out now exactly what went wrong, because the Corps is already starting to rebuild."
Documents given to investigators by former Corps contractors have shed some light on what government engineers knew about the weak soils and how this knowledge affected their decisions.
In the 1980s, the Corps began constructing concrete floodwalls on top of older earthen levees to give the city's northern neighborhoods better protection from storm surges from Lake Pontchartrain. Soil tests in the 1980s detected trouble 20 feet below the surface: a thick layer of spongy, organic soil called peat. Soft and highly compressible when dry, peat becomes even weaker when saturated with water.
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A 1988 document reveals that Corps officials took careful measurements of the peat layer and tested the soil in a laboratory to calculate its relative strength, according to Robert Bea, a professor of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and a member of the NSF investigating team. Based on those calculations, the Corps designed a concrete-and-steel floodwall anchored to the earth by steel pilings driven to a depth of 20 feet.
"The depth of the pilings becomes important," said Bea, because the "tips of the sheet piles may not have penetrated the peat." Meanwhile, because the canal was dredged to an even greater depth, water was able to penetrate the peat layer from the inside, investigators said.
A helicopter drops sandbags as repairs to the London Avenue Canal levee continue in New Orleans on Sept. 10. Investigators believe the floodwall atop the earthen levee was compromised by soft soil underneath it. (By David J. Phillip -- Associated Press)
Graphic
How New Orleans Flooded
The storm surge that overtopped levees protecting the Lower Ninth Ward was amplified by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a little-used shipping channel constructed by the Corps of Engineers in the 1950s and 1960s, a new computer model shows. Central New Orleans flooded when levees along the 17th Street and London Avenue drainage canals failed. Three teams of engineering experts are investigating whether design errors or other flaws played a role.
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"There was a gap where water could get through," said Ivor Van Heerden, the deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center and the leader of the Louisiana forensic investigation. "Water was able to get around or through those pilings to the other side and start weakening the structure."
Reports of problems with the soft underlayer began to surface even before the floodwalls were finished. In 1994, the now-defunct Pittman Construction Co., a New Orleans firm involved in levee construction, claimed in court documents that floodwall sections were failing to line up properly because of unstable soils. An administrative law judge dismissed the complaint on technical grounds in 1998, without specifically addressing the allegations about weak soils.
Katrina's storm surge put the floodwalls to the ultimate test. Hours after the storm hit, water poured into the canals from Lake Pontchartrain and added enormous strain to the walls and levees. According to a scenario developed by Bea and other investigators, the already-saturated peat was the path of least resistance, allowing the water to burst through the wall from underneath. At the 17th Street Canal, truck-size chunks of the old earthen levee were heaved 35 feet on a carpet of sliding soil.
Corps officials are not yet convinced. "It is important not to jump to conclusions," said John Grieshaber, chief of the engineering division in the Corps' New Orleans district office. "It's hard to look at the aftereffects and say with a high level of certainty, 'This is what happened.' "
The Corps' actions since the storm, however, suggest that at least some officials are worried about weaknesses in the floodwalls' design. A proposal for rebuilding the floodwalls has set far tougher standards than existed 15 years ago. And the steel pilings, which formerly reached a depth of 20 feet, must now be driven through the peat layer to 40 feet, twice as deep as before.
If design flaws are confirmed, the task of preparing the 200-mile levee system for the next hurricane may be far more complex -- and more expensive -- than first believed, said Gordon Boutwell, president of Soil Testing Engineers Inc. and a member of the ASCE investigative team.
"Nothing beats a full-scale field test, and this was a full-scale field test," Boutwell said. "Some structures did the job they were supposed to, but some were total failures -- and those you can't just leave alone. And you can't expect to just stack them higher and walk away."
Posted by the baron at 02:12 AM | Comments (0)
October 23, 2005
demo down baby
fire in the district fire fire fire
the blasting is not about
to commence
so if we need a 'fait a complete ...'
right now
we better
bring out the torches
===========================================
nyt today
"NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 22 -
As crews begin inspecting
thousands of rotting houses
and preservationists begin efforts
to save them....."
-------- the tug of war begins now...------------
" city and federal officials
say that 30,000 to 50,000
of the city's houses
will probably have to be demolished
this represents more than a quarter
of the city's housing stock"
---------- shit i told em
these knock off counts
would start rolling backwards
once the goo goos got fired up -----------
"Allen Morse
will be in charge of the demolition effort
for the Army Corps of Engineers "
----take it from me
al's no blast first ask questions later...
this is one of your
washington casting couch usuals
a prufrocker
worried he'll ruffle some peach fuzz --------------
"Already the dreaded
bright red-orange stickers
blaring "unsafe" have begun
to proliferate on houses ....."
----- think that sounds good ????
shit
its coming in at
under 3 %
we need to slap this red
"dozer ready " paint
on whole hoods here --------
"a passionate debate over
the extent of the demolition"
"Of the city's 180,000 houses
110,000 were flooded,
and half of those
sat for days or weeks
in more than six feet of water"
-------- so
u start figuring maybe
the corps can dozer
~ 100k
nope ------------------
-----------
watch the demo numbers drop
if we privateers
just laisez faire this
contrary to the dot counts
we'll have under 20 k empty slots
hence
we redevo groups
need to make it happen
privatize the demo process
take em
one by one
by candle lite...
get me ....
-------------------
---------- there's more --------------
" the army corps' Kelley Aasen
is in charge of inspecting
every house
in New Orleans ....."
----------- and
Assen's A-hole
is closed tighter then ...--------------
" about 30,000 inspections had been completed
with 7,000 houses tagged yellow
and 700 red,"
----- yellow means
we miss a scrap
sure we can red over
these yellows
by cover of darkness
but hey
that works
only if the dozers
are all waiting at dawn
to plow em under --------------
--------- as to -----------------
"The Shaw Group...."
-------- god bless em -----
(the private construction company
providing
the inspectors to the corps)----------
"provoked complaints this week ...
some people hired as inspectors
included
art dealers and hairdressers
unqualified to make structural appraisals"
------------ now is that a delight or what ???----------
"Shaw responded to the complaints
by dismissing two dozen
of the least qualified inspectors"
------------- including 6 of my confederates -----------------
"City officials say
it will probably not be necessary
to destroy entire neighborhoods
speaking instead of city blocks"
----------- as i figured ...
fine we can work thru blocks -------------
" historic houses
will get special consideration"
"deluged neighborhoods
like the Lower Ninth Ward
and New Orleans East
will not be wiped out"
" age-old fights here between
developers and preservationists"
"it will be very difficult
for many homeowners
to save their flooded houses
about half of them
did not have flood insurance"
"Federal flood insurance guidelines
will also require
that thousands of damaged homes
in floodplains be elevated by a foot or more"
" a fearsomely expensive proposition "
"the price of renovations
has quadrupled to nearly $120 a square foot"
"New construction is a lot cheaper than renovation,"
"Homeowners will be given the final say
on whether their houses
will be torn down
but they will have a limited time
to decide whether to renovate
or demolish
After that the city can order
an unsafe house to come down"
Posted by the baron at 04:56 PM | Comments (0)
October 17, 2005
hell is zoned too
zoning
eeeh gadzzz
the hatchery
of all conspiracy and corruption
why.......??????
===============
cause it generates
artificial scarcity
sending the value of a permitted lot
thru the roof
and the raw spec buy
to permit gauntlet
thats where the value gets added
and the palms greased
today I'm out ahead of all that
scouting spec
lewis and clark stuff really
the real thunder cloud
is not yet forming
read this today in the sunday times mag :
i guess its about my beat
in better days
"Recently, xxxxxxx of the Wharton School
and yyyyyyyyyy from Harvard University
used sample prices from 25 areas
to show that the cost of housing
in a metropolitan area
appears to be in direct correlation
to its degree of zoning ordinances"
". And in a coming paper, zzzzzz of Columbia
calls attention to the pricing patterns
in what he calls
"superstar cities."
" In metro areas like New York and San Francisco
dynamic and attractive places
with limited supplies of land
prices can conceivably go up
at above-average rates
basically forever,"
"Even after 15 years
of declines in Tokyo
it's still more expensive
than living in Manhattan"
.
Posted by the baron at 09:29 PM | Comments (0)
October 16, 2005
over 60 billion dollars
thats what
national real estate brokerages
grossed in commissions
last year ...
but ladies
what's out there up ahead
is not u
its robbie f robot
===============================
you read stuff like this nearly every day
"Real estate brokers have earned
a good living the past few years"
are
u wishing us well mistah
or pissed ????
" Total real estate commissions
reached $61 billion last year"
" thanks to the rising price
of homes
and the 5 to 6 percent slice
of the pie brokers routinely take"
slice of the pie ????
so you're happy turning nasty
aren't u ???
" But those commissions
are threatened by technology"
ugh a phoney tech spin
" Discount brokers
with the aid of the Internet
are taking smaller commissions
typically 3 percent
to provide the same service "
"with the aid of the internet"
its tech that's taking
it all
and though u're lumped
in there with fatty fairfax
the discount
is coming
out of your end
right ladies ????
6%
less agents 3 %
and you get
the discounter's deal
forgive or fake
a few details anyway
my dirty dog point :
its all the same
for fatty
the broker
gets his skim
no matter what
-----------------
what ticks me
is this
cheap jack
bubble gum machine
getting sold as
"the same service"
robbie button head
a skilled agent ????
can ya hear fatty
i can
" okay
so what's the fuckin diff here"
am I right gals ???
we got to get organized
the fat years are over
Posted by the baron at 08:33 PM | Comments (0)
October 15, 2005
how can u sleep at nite ?
never never
never
bother to ask
a real estate pro
that question
its like asking a vampire
how can you sleep
in a casket
=======================================
that being said
below please find
some one
looking at my daily
rounds
of
skulk and double cross .....
well at least
in as much as a cog can
stand in for
the whole machine
mea culpa
ladies
mea culpa
the implied bad guyz
behind the curtain here
includes
this very specific
" ME "
-------------------------------------
"There are 30,000 people
still living in shelters
in
Louisiana
while 40,000
"high and dry" public housing apartments
in New Orleans
remain unoccupied....
and it seems clear
no one's planning on
openning them
any time soon"
Louisiana Congressman Richard
Baker (R-LA) quote:
" finally
public housing is
cleaned up
around here
We couldn't
do it, but God did."
-------------------------------------
in addition:
probably
115,000 low-income homes in
New Orleans were "seriously damaged"
by the hurricane
i wouldn't bet on too many
of them re openning
for bizz as usual
either
Posted by the baron at 06:39 PM | Comments (0)
October 13, 2005
tide water headed for a buster brown suit ????
his name is andres duany
and he's a pretentious
ill clad
mag pie
a salvador dali in blue jeans .....
a fraud of the first rank
who needs
to be carefully
and completely
castrated
and then thrown down
a mexican well
======================================
so in a moment of slack
there i am
reading my New York Times
YES EVEN down here
what a fool eh?
whatever .......
after a few perusals of usuals
sure as hell has chestnuts
don't i
suddenly come across
this un mitigated pile
of horse feathers
on rebuilding
the mississippi tri county
gulf coast area
instead of some
syruppy guff about
"gulf coast to receive
post blow out face lift "
no i read how
" a mister andres duany"
is
holding a "conference "
yes a "conference "
to
" help pull together a master plan"
to " avoid returning to the same old ticky tacky "
before the "spontaneous forces of honky tonk"
move back in and once more
"over grow the whole coastal area"
no no no
not
if senior duany has his sway
no restoration
of mississippi's
mile after mile
of
strip centers
no
string of swankless
commercial sand traps
and boob hustles
no
there will be no return
to
the endless run of bull wax
that stretched
from here
" in ceaseless gauntlet"
all the way
to the georgia shoreline
no sir and no mammy
forget piecemeal renewal
we're aiming for
total reformation here
and most of all
no more stand alone towering casinos
set so far from local habitude
u'd figure they were "nuclear reactors"
nope
we'll have
well scattered character building
amusements instead
broadcast out among the indigenous hoi
"like cinnnamom sticks in a huge halloween cider "
the plan in a few brisk can do phrases:
instead of rebuilding the same old
bodacious hideosity
lets take all that
availible
tax and rate payers money
and build a series of uplifted
middle borrows
no fricky frack hooch clusters
but solid respectably appointed
historcally referential
civil order deferential
functionally interactive
nicely
"concentri-cational"
communities
all of em anti sprawl
and
ever so
pedestrian scaled
it 'll be
like its 1890 again
all overdeepest
dixie's creation
kids making soap box racers
girls in hoops rolling hoops
pop
corner of the eye-ing
ruby tuesday
as she pulls hot cross buns from
the familly oven
there'll be
strollin and twirlin and courtin
and hardly an un para....
well u
get the tableau right stella ????
-----------------------------------------
this duany bastard
missed his calling
he should be center ring somewhere
swallowing 6 foot swords
while this soft
soapy skinned
bare chested
gal circles him
on a hopelessly
aroused pony
can ya see her ladies ???
i sure can
there she is
riding backward ....
as sword after sword
slides down that
pretentious fuckers throat
round and round she goes
legs wide asplay
curvedly
straddling the poor beast's ass
her breasts bucking and slapping
like water bottles
on a one way ride
to
bolder dam
Posted by the baron at 10:00 PM | Comments (0)
October 12, 2005
mums the word bub
ladies i can't tell u whats up
i know you all
understand this
all real estate
is a conspiracy
under the place
on the plot map
marked with the x
there's the dream
of gold dust
fool's or otherwise
===============================
so let this suffice
to cover my action down here
plots we got
but gold???
real gold
" vell sah ...
foist let me zay dis ....."
and yet .......
i trudge on
commissions
high or low
are never paid
before they're earned....
three times over
right gals ?????
--------------------------------------
heres an after note :
i'm working on a nice
lyrical post
for you my dears
full of imagery
and mood
and
graceful
modus operandi
but i must wait on it
wait till
it builds in my soul
wait
to where it must burst forth
in a sudden wild profusion
the words
rolling and bouncing
out
like cobs
from a busted corn crib
-----------------------------------------
Posted by the baron at 08:23 PM | Comments (0)
October 10, 2005
place my deck chair over here
mike davis likes
freaking folks out
take this one sitting down ....
========================================
any climate change researcher
is a fool
who fails
to allow
for
" catastrophic nonlinearities "
according to frite mike
" modeling
the next 100 years
simply on the precedents
of
the Altithermal
(the hottest phase of
the current Holocene period
8,000 years ago)
or even
the Eemian
(the previous
even warmer
interglacial episode
120,000 years ago)"
may not get us all the way
to our actual destination
no madame not even close....
"growing numbers of geophysicists
toy with the possibilities
of runaway warming"
" returning
the earth to the torrid chaos
of
the Paleocene-Eocene
Thermal Maximum
(PETM)
( 55 million years ago)
a time "when extreme
and rapid heating
of the oceans "
led to " massive
extinctions"
to the point:
"Dramatic new evidence
has emerged
recently ...."
that
" Arctic sea ice is
thinning and shrinking
so dramatically ..."
we'll have
" ice-free summers on the Arctic Ocean
within a century"
and to boot
this process
is already
"irreversible"
"no feedback mechanism
within the Arctic
has either
the potency
or speed
to alter the system's
present course."
by the way ladies
"An ice-free Arctic Ocean
has not existed
in over a million years"
yup
don't tell your banker
but
our destination izz
" well outside
the envelope
of recent glacial-interglacial
fluctuations "
translation:
throw out
the familiar sign posts boys
we ain't stoppin
anywhere around here
nope
we izzz
ridin' a runaway
express to hell
AND
high water
way the fuck
no
way way way the fuck
Outside
auntie marmalade's
comfort zone
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bottom line
an ultimate sell signal ????
baaaahh!!!!!!!
but eh
all and still
makes for
nice
Byronic ruminations
on this damp
mellow wisted nite
in bxllx -reve
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Posted by the baron at 09:42 PM | Comments (0)
October 08, 2005
they're on to uz mistah tipton
ran into some
" hip" chocolate colored folks
last nite
out by the ice chest
here
at my motel
in xxxxx-reve
hip indeed.....
seems the BLOODS
may have
copt to
THE MAN'S MAIN MOVE
hear their chatter ....
======================================================
" there show nuff will be
nuffin but shit and a shout door fo uzz
that's right nigger
no restoration no reconstruction
not for nothin ...period
greater new orleans is now
lesser new orleans
far as real black folks go .
.its strictly stay the fuck away
fuckin need not apply
if i were to tell you
there's to be
a one race rebirth ....
sheeeeeeeet even the niggers will be mexicans
"the whole mutherfuckin
big easy
privatized and corporatized
fuckin circumsized hypnotized and simonized
thinkin a renamin the fuck
call it
fuckin DIXIELAND "
tapped fuckin mickey eisner
hisseff
to head
it all up
yup the guy that stolded
didneeland
fucked wid it
and left it a giant ball of gummy pink shit
and pussy cream
imagine dat
he's comin here
day calls dat REEEE -
development....??????
shit on dat "
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by the way
if you want the low down
but not all liquored up
go to :
reconwatch@southernstudies.org.
part of
www.southernstudies.org
Posted by the baron at 02:26 PM | Comments (0)
October 07, 2005
there are no gentiles in fox holes this week
why ???
cause
"On Rosh Hashanah
it is written
and
on Yom Kippur
it is sealed"
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"How many
shall leave this world
and how many
shall be born into it
who
shall live
and who
shall die
who
shall live out
the limit
of his days
and who
shall not
who
shall perish
by fire
and who
by water
who
by sword
and who
by beast
who
by hunger
and who
by thirst
who
by earthquake
and who
by plague
who
by strangling
and who
by stoning
who shall rest
and
who shall wander
who shall be at peace
and
who shall be tormented
who shall be poor
and
who shall be rich
who shall be humbled
and
who shall be exalted
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and here's
the humane
point of departure :
" PENITENCE
PRAYER AND GOOD DEEDS
CAN ANNUL
THE SEVERITY
OF THE DECREE "
Posted by the baron at 04:51 PM | Comments (0)
BOTTOM FEEDING??? MOI
a scattering
of
OLD NOTES...
9/ 28 (pre incident )
ITS VERY LATE INDEED
I SLIDE THRU THESE DRAINING
FUNKED FROSTED STREETS
LIKE A LONE EEL ......
YES I'M BRAKING CURFEW AGAIN
OF COURSE
AND
MAKING ORAL NOTES ON MY RECORDER
"AH THIS BLOCK FROM 234 - 278
WILL DO JUST FINE
MISTER TIPTON "
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9/30
dusk
BANG BANG BANG !!!!!!
pot shots zing passed me
long unactivated instincts
have me down and rolling
TO THE GUTTER
i'm un hit
KOLLECTED kool
some what relieved
AND
crawling LIKE A SALAMANDER
thru the hellish marl
to PERMINENT cover
i move out
only under pitch darkness
there will need to be some adjustments in my MO
10/3
NOON THE LOCAL CONSTABULARY
HAS A FEW QUESTIONS FOR ME
SETTING FIRES ??? MOI ????
AND NEEDLESS TO SAY
i
NO LONGER TRAVEL
ALONE
after those pot shots
I'll OPERATE exclusively
down here
at least
INSIDE THE CITY
WITH
CONFEDERATES .....
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10/4
MEET
X- SLACK AND ALICE
TWO VERY CREOLE
very out of work
BEINGS INDEED
ONE
THE REKNOWNED
FORMER BOUNCER
AT
JACK'S LANDING
NOW A TURD AND TURTLE WALLOW
THE OTHER...
WELL SHE/HE .... WHATEVER
"BE"
X-SLACKS ARM CANDY
A LEGGY FESTIVAL QUEEN
WITH CATAMOUNT LIKE MOTIONS
I KEEP EM
THERE
UP AHEAD
ROAMING BACK AND FORTH
MAKING A RUCKUS
DRAWING THE QUANDOM SNIPERS EYE ...
THEY TREAT IT
LIKE HALLOWEEN KIDS
FLASHIN THEIR ELECTRIC TORCHES
IN SWIFT CRISS CROSSES OVER
THE PAVEMENT
" HEY MAN WHY NOT..
FOR 5 Cs each
a nite ???? SHEEEEEEEEEET "
I FOLLOW IN PERFECT STEALTH .....
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10/5
LADIES I'M IN MY ELEMENT
SCOUTING
pure wind fall OPPORTUNITY
TIPTON HOLDINGS
BEHIND ME
READY TO BUY
in the
TENS OF MILLIONS
ON MY RECOMMENDATION ALONE
THEN..
BANG BANG BANG
i'm hit
I'M DOWN
A SLUG IN THE DELTOID
luck
" NO BE " MY lady
TO NITE
AT THE SOUND OF HOSTILE FIRE
SEEMS
THE NOBLE X-SLACK MUSTA
BEAT A FAST EXIT
TO ANYWHERE ELSE
BUT
ALICE...AH ALICE
COMES A RUNNIN
POUNCES ATOP ME
AND
SHE'S PURRIN IN MY EAR
"DON'T FRET BABY DOLL
DON'T FRET "
YES
SHE COVERS ME ...
COVERS ME
LIKE
THE GALLANT
MADAME CONNOLLY
COVERED HER EVIL
BRUSH POPPIN
SIDE WINDER
OF A LIPPLESS HUSBAND
THAT SUNNY DAY IN DALLAS .....
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Posted by the baron at 02:21 PM | Comments (0)
hello ladies and nobody
as i type...
there remains the echo
of gun fire in the streets
of new orleans
the nite air is
still
dark
without succor
what a humble broker
won't do for a deal
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oh yes
good evening
to all my faithful ladies
how are things
back up there on the island ????
i trust
you will be happy to hear
your cowled 6 foot 2 avenger
is recovering well
" only a flesh wound"
or so
i'm told by the doc
one way or the other
i'll be out of here in 36 hours
out of here
and back at the scene
of the crime
and i don't mean looting or rape
not even gun play
i mean the scene of
the world's oldest crime
private property
even before
murder
there was
eviction and removal
the work of almighty lords
since
eve poached one of her lord's
apples
in the lobby of eden
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Posted by the baron at 12:50 AM | Comments (0)