Category: Meanderings

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Neil Postman – Amusing Ourselves to Death The area south of Highway 98, North of the Gulf, East of Highway 59…

This site is pretty cool. It has real time locations of ship traffic around the world but of course the best part for us is the action in the Port of New Orleans. I see that Ferry traffic just ended. The Creole Queen, Natchez and all the ferries are on there. I am also watching…

I know waste mangement companies get a hard time in GNO but I have to hand it to Richards Disposal curbside collection. They take whatever I put out. And I have challenged them in the past with bins full of busted up concrete, huge branches of oak, all manner of scrap wood protruding from the…

Folks who have seen our House Hunters episode know that there are quite a few chickens in our neighborhood. Most people use them as a a signal of when to get up but when they staart crowing we know it’s time to go to bed. There is only one left from the House Hunters group…

I saw this bumper sticker the other day at Whitney and General DeGaulle. I was then inspired to embrace the many pleasures and joys this abundant world has to offer. Yes! I will live it up! Because that Lake of Fire is really going to suck. Going to live it up right now by having…

I noticed when I walked by the t-shirt shop selling those FUBP shirts I posted about a month or so back now has a sign saying they donate $1 to some charity or another from the sale of each shirt. So, credit where it’s due in the interest of fairness.

– He wears a size 22 shoe. – He was courted by both the Montreal Alouettes and Washington Redskins to play pro football. – He was in dozens of movies and TV shows. His biggest role was as the giant Fezzik in Rob Reiner’s 1987 The Princess Bride. Serpas was also Bigfoot in the Six…

Citizen Journalist and activist Lance “Varg” Vargas will be on a fact finding excursions to Destin, Florida this weekend. He will get to the bottom of the effects on the oil spill on the beaches off 30A. He will attempt to observe the sheen in the water by splashing around in the surf. Attempts to…

There are many things we will remember about this summer. It’s the 5th annivesary. It’s unusually hot and swampy. It follows a frigid winter that killed a lot of outdoor vegetation (rubber trees taking it particularly bad). What is unique for me is the morning and evening chorus of cicadas is the loudest I have…

… FUBP shirts (I am guessing 0% of the profits are going toward disaster relief). Presenting the generic “Treme” shirt. It’s actually smart. The show is about a neighborhood which I am not sure can be copyrighted and so long as they don’t use the same typeface of imagery from the show, they can produce…