Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | yesterday
I wasn’t going to write about anything except the beach this week, giving myself as much of a rest on all fronts as possible. This morning I could not resist dropping into Google Reader, where I found this news: a sign Dr. Bob made, welcoming visitors to the Bywater. It sits on private property, owned by [...]
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
February 26. Covered 172 miles. Cloudy sky, grey sea. Nothingness. February 27, Covered 94 miles. Blue sky, blue sea. Nothingness. – Two log entries from Bernard Moitessier’s The Long Way. This is not the ocean, these rolling waves crashing into the sand just below my balcony. It is merely the edge of the thing, a ragged hem. [...]
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Serp Walk About 2008
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
They come out at night, the flashlight people combing the tide line, lights swinging wildly like some Shakespeare clown watch with a bottle. What do they think to find out in the night that would not wash up in the glare of day? Fireworks suddenly burst over the sand with a bang whoosh snap pop hiss of colors, bursting metallic blossoms [...]
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
I’m off to the edge of the world for a while to watch the waves roll in and out. Might be quiet around here for a while. See you at the Ashley Benefit: tanned, rested and unsteady.
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Big h/t to Oyster for calling out this 2 Cent production.
ACLU (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana's lawmakers stood up for democracy when they passed, and Gov. Bobby Jindal signed, a new law requiring the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to notify people leaving its supervision about how to regain their voting rights. The law, Act No. 604, also requires the Department to provide these individuals with voter registration applications.
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Like everything here in postdiluvian New Orleans the movement towards a Katrina Memorial drags slowly on. Everything down here moves by fits and start, like an old man pushing a scrap cart up the street. We are not building the New Jerusalem here, for all of the bright and optimistic noise made back in the heady [...]
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Don’t forget about this event. The Wets will be back from the beach just in time. FYYFF It’s Black and Gold Forever: A Fundraiser for the Ashley Morris Memorial Saturday, July 26 @ One Eyed Jacks 615 Toulouse Street Cover: $10 www.rememberashleymorris.com Dirty Coast Press, The Rising Tide and the Big Easy Roller Girls Present: FYYFF It’s Black and Gold Forever: A Fundraiser [...]
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
“I am tired. I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years.” – Velvet Underground I am so tired lately. I’m just crawling out from under some respiratory illness but could not miss work last week, so all you see around here on Toulouse Street are some lazy You Tubes, a perfect analog of my situation: collapsed on [...]
Anything Hollywood (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Josh Brolin bounced back to his former self over the weekend! The aging film star was busted with a co-star in Louisiana. More pictures after the break… Josh was in Shreveport Louisiana where his current movie is filming. The cops were called because of a rowdy patron - guess who - and when they showed up, Brolin became [...]
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
And now for something completely pointless. Thanks, Karen.
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
La Marsellaise is such a lovely song. Aux armes, citoyens ! To arms, citizens! Formez vos bataillons ! Form your battalions! Marchons, marchons ! Let’s march, let’s march! Qu’un sang impur May a tainted blood Abreuve nos sillons ! Soak our furrows! Aux armes, citoyens ! [...]
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
‘Facing a dying nation Of moving paper fantasies Listening for the new told lies With supreme visions of lonely tunes” I think it was Greg at Suspect Device who made some remark about “the hippies” in reference to a McCain ad. Somehow that put me in mind of this song. McCain. Iran. A dying nation of moving paper [...]
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Ok, your hopelessly lazy and stupid host seems to have missed a link to some of Darrell Borque’s poetry. Here is a several mostly prose poems posted on a University of Lafayette website. The form is called ekphrasis, a term I just learned yesterday (See, poetry is improving) which involves describing a work of art [...]
