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….
The Wire’s 32 Best Characters
Felt compelled to put this up in response to Smacketology: A tournament to determine The Wire’s greatest character. Mostly because they didn’t include loyal muscle Slim Charles and ranked Bubbles to low. It could be argued that the entire series was Bubbles’ story. So a 7th seed seems criminal. Anyway. Never cared for McNulty so…
‘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…
The City for the Trees…
New Orleans trees show nation’s steepest dropoff The tree count for my street… When I first bought my house there was a huge, old, dead, crepe myrtle in the back of it that was among the first things to go. For three days, I hacked and chopped at it’s solid branches and pulled at the…
Marathon, Not a Sprint…Wait, It’s Over? Part: 2
– I woke up for the first time in years feeling ready to go on Fat Tuesday rather than, the typical, “Oh, I don’t know how I’m going to do this” cruddy hangover notion. I was ready for greatness! – As always it took us way too long to get ready for the Golden Traipse….
Marathon, Not a Sprint…Wait, It’s Over? Part: 1
Can’t really seem to get a narrative going about this year’s Carnival so I’ll just do bullets… – Raged, RAGED against the dying of the light in the majestic Krewe of Mama Roux and finally learned what it must be like to be an adored superstar. Yet somehow, in spit of all that adoration, some…
The Characteristics of a Crown Vic
When I was younger and much more miscreant in my behavior, I used to be able to identify a Crown Victoria by the shape of their headlights in my rear view mirror. I could even discern the year and model of the car by where the parking lights were located. The earlier models had one…
Flood Line Flashback
For a second I had a momentary flashback to mucky floodlines while lamenting that all the wild duck gumbo was ladled out cup-by-cup and gone on New Year’s Day… Looks like…
Kafkaesque
Every year it’s a crap shoot when I go to City Hall to renew my Jackson Square license. Will it be chaos or smooth? It’s been about 50/50 the last few years. This year went pretty smooth. I only had two notable observations. 1.) A foreign man applying for a business license was surrounded by…
‘Sticking a Mummified Cat In One Of His Works’
Well, I do curse at the tourists though it’s more self-righteous, insulting cursing rather than “vicious.” Even though I know it violates Rule #3 under Ethical Conduct on The Noble Eightfold Path. Would totally put a mummified cat in a piece…if I only had a mummified cat. There are stories of him trashing art galleries…