So here’s this: Southern US strawberry festival sparks a race row Okay so, in 2009 when Bill Hemmerling died Clancy DuBose wrote… In 2009, Bill was successfully represented at ART EXPO in New York, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and FI-ART in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. He has been honored by…
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An Arrangement of Mike Nichols Jax Beer Commercials…
Director Mike Nichols died yesterday. I arranged some of his Jax Beer commercials and put them here. Because, you know, there’s a New Orleans connection to damn near everyone… Talking dog Louis is my favorite…
Compassion and the Damage Done: Maximizing The Hurt of A Very Tragic Death
Cyclist run over, killed by large truck in Marigny I saw the aftermath of this horrible accident and was pretty damaged by it. The response to it by some members of our community has been further damaging. The witch hunt is on. People want the driver of the truck charged, not realizing or caring how…
Actually, It’s Fine.
French Market Corp. hires Jon Smith as executive director after first pick declines job over salary dispute The first four paragraphs of this story are reminiscent of some passive aggressive cocktail party conversation. It’s all like, “Well…she KNEW we weren’t trying to pay her that much and, we ARE just a “public benefits corporation” that…
A Plausible Recreation of the Death of Justin Slip
Picture this… You are Justin Sipp. You have a criminal record but currently you are working at Burger King. Your brother is giving you a ride there for your early morning shift. He may be drowsy. He may be hurried. Either way, he commits a moving violation and is pulled over by a police officer….
‘He Had This Fear of Calling the Police’
Family: Teen murdered was at wrong place at wrong time Pastor Raphael knows many of the neighborhood kids. He said one boy told him he had seen Summers laying there wounded hours before anyone called police. “He had this fear of calling the police. He wanted something to be done and he said he knew…
Cause Of, Rather Than Solution To
Prison guards, inmate detail brutality inside jail “Everyone was smoking crack,” Picou said. Picou said inmates constantly threatened to kill him, usually for being white These two lines are almost identical to a colloquial report I heard a few weeks ago from a fella that spent 60 days in OPP. Almost exactly. Completely different guy….
Supplemental Reading / Listening / Viewing on the Steve Gleason Story…
I read more words in a dead tree edition than I have in a many years Sunday afternoon. Like almost everyone around town I was gripped and saddened by the Steve Gleason story. More so because earlier that week I was cleaning up the iTunes folder and listened to several podcasts on not only ALS…
This Looks Suspiciously Like a ‘Forecast of Least Regret’
Note that this forecast puts a major metropolitan area in the northeast quadrant with an uptick in intensity just off the coast. Remember that. Back in 2007, I did an e-mail Q&A style interview with Chuck Watson, Director of Research and Development for Kinetic Analysis Corporation. In the five-year history of this blog’s goofy musings…
Some Good, Bad and Ugly of Social Media in London
But first, this is all so Social Media, Social Justice. The good… Using Twitter handle @Riotcleanup, citizens are coming together following protests of the police shooting a Tottenham man. The Twitter account is raking in thousands of new followers per hour in the process. (At last count they had 59,000.) Meanwhile, Riotcleanup.co.uk lists times and…