Category: Meanderings

It ain’t hot for everyone but for funky folk artists like me, Jazzfest is a great time to be selling art. It’s like Black Weekend for me. This year I am in position to finally pay off some very awful credit card balances that have lingered since my first few years of underemployment here in…

Some mornings, it’s like this on the bridge…

Vortex. Of. Revelry. Very powerful.. 098u New mayor — Dat Tuesday l;k j Saints parade // Smoky Mary c.x,m Tracy Porterrxm Muses. Must. Get. Shoe. Skeletons. zcxlvm Costume shopping Yellow thing. (Communications lost, 1630, 2/9/2010)

1. Either in two days or a month and two days we will elect a mayor not named Ray Nagin (or John Georges). 2. Citizen journalism er, blogging er, social media er, regular folks with keyboards are showing the power of truth over influence. 3. By Spring, Warren Riley will no longer be our police…

I saw this picture of John Goodman portraying a college professor in “Treme” and immediately thought of Ashley Morris. Do I have an overactive imagination on this or am I late to the game on something everyone else already knows?

Now, a shit-ton (I think that’s hyphenated) of colloquial evidence suggests it’s this one. (Stacy Head comments on government benefits not withstanding). I know I often wonder if I will come out of it alive. View Larger Map But someone might have been shot in the parking lot in the parking lot of this one……

… to another I must say, go Mike go! Metairie map maker begins trip from Canada to New Orleans on original Jefferson Highway

In the department of “bad habits left over from my childhood in Pensacola,” I am aware of the use of “gay” and “retarded” to describe things as being lame or stupid. In my marginally more enlightened adulthood I am aware of the use of these terms as derogatory even though there are many straight people…

How did I miss this in ’06? Must have been all that “working in a hotel after the flood” stuff. Anyway, Where yat this go ’round Kim? Crazy NOLA mayoral candidate doctors Disneyland photo – again A bizarre NOLA mayoral candidate has been caught doctoring photos of herself standing in Disneyland. For the second time….

It was a glorious night for local access. First there was the gets-better-every-time-I-watch it WYES show “Stay Tuned.” My favorites are the Mike Nichols Jax beer commercials and the talking freezer and K&B. Actually the freezer one os only funny because one mulleted guy looks like he fired up a spliff. got the munchies and…