Category: Haps

‘Who Dat’ trademark fight is back It’s funny that earlier in the year when the big bad NFL was trying to enforce it’s copyright (which it was lawfully entitled to do) everyone was all pissed and screaming “ahhh, you can’t take our heritage from us!” and “Nobody owns Who Dat! Ahhhh…it belongs to the city…

New Orleans Police Chief Ronal Serpas fires 3 officers O’Hern was arrested in January for illegally discharging his weapon last December in a downtown rooftop parking lot. Investigators determined he fired his weapon without cause in the middle of the day inside the Hilton New Orleans Riverside hotel at 2 Poydras St. Police said O’Hern…

I touched briefly in my post yesterday about the sanctimonious, arrogant and hypocritical behavior of many bicyclists around town. It was a bit of an abstract concept and really hard to prove in any sort of way but I wanted to suggest that the bicyclists themselves often put themselves in as much danger as careless…

Biking in New Orleans might be less of an uphill battle these days I am very much in favor of bike lanes and bike safety here in New Orleans. And the bicyclists should lead the way. I used to bike to work. It was the best thing I ever did for myself. I worked in…

Former HANO chief financial officer who stole nearly $1 million gets 46-month sentence This article has some awesome quotes… Baum continued: “The court should know that, after paying the restitution, this defendant is left poor. His home in Florida has been foreclosed; the property in South Carolina is going back to the bank since he…

I am in a daiquiri shop by Jackson Square watching the blood-pressure increasing performance of the Saints vs. the Panthers when all of the sudden this commercial runs… And I was all like whaaaaat? When the November mudslinging commences, how much is going to get on Obama?

This post was preceded by a rather lengthy thread of Facebook postings on Louis Maistros page that was titled, “Louis Maistros has noticed the rules that apply in a fight to the death in Thunderdome are the same rules that apply while shopping at the Super Walmart on Tchoupitoulas St.” The colloquial thread has been…

I was waiting on some photos at Walgreens in Gretna yesterday and figured I’d kill some time by heading on over to Casey Jones (the best family-owned supermarket on the West Bank) and getting a 12-pack. When I returned to Walgreens the photos still weren’t ready so I figured I would kinda hang around the…

God and the State are embroiled in a debate concerning the nature of casket sales… Benedictine monks suing Louisiana regulators over casket sales The monks of the 121-year-old St. Joseph Abbey, in St. Tammany Parish north of New Orleans, charge the state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors is attempting to maintain a casket cartel,…

On Jackson Square I have been witness time and time again to large groups of runners, gay people, pirates, African Americans, running bulls, Lutherans and many more. So I can say with a certain bit of authority that none of them get wasted like the red dress runners. Maybe it’s the swampy heat or maybe…