CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • You Really Must Watch This

    From youtube: “Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.” What is in this video is only a piece of glass with a light shining through it and sand — nothing else, no computer enhancement or anything. The Nazi regime in Ukraine was quite brutal with much of their assault on the territory intending to cut off Russian from their breadbasket and oil fields.

  • Fmr. Gov. Dave Treen Dead at 81

    Former Louisiana Governor Dave Treen of Metairie died this morning at East Jefferson Medical Center of complications related to a respiratory illness. Treen (pictured 2nd from right above with fellow Governors Foster, Roemer, and Edwards) was the first Republican elected to the governorship in Louisiana since Reconstruction. Treen, originally of Baton Rouge, was a graduate of Tulane University and Tulane Law School. He was a veteran of the US Air Force and practiced law in the New Orleans area. In 1972 he was elected to Congress, representing Louisiana’s 3rd District throughout the 70’s. Treen pushed for legislation to improve states’…

  • The Death of E-Mail

    Fair warning: This is an hour and twenty minutes long. But it is fascinating.