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Summer in the city [02 Jul 2009|09:05pm]
[info]mshollie and I had a nice day on the town yesterday. We took the streetcar downtown and had lunch at The Green Goddess Restaurant in the French Quarter. Delicious! Then to the Historic New Orleans Collection to see exhibits first at the Chartres Street Research Center, then at the Royal Street Museum. We walked around a bit, then went to the Roosevelt Hotel right as it officially reopened to the public. One of the city's grand old hotels, it had been closed since Katrina. Roosevelt Hotel New Orleans Wikipedia article. Drinks at the Sazerac bar!

More, with photos )
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Broadcast television, RIP [12 Jun 2009|06:48pm]


Bye Bye, TV

Bye bye.

Radio says, "Nyah nyah".
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Have Big Chief Fun on the Bayou [31 May 2009|06:31pm]
Went to Bayou St. John for the Downtown Mardi Gras Indians Super Sunday. Good times.

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Local linky stuff [13 May 2009|08:33am]
Some local news links

WDSU: Engineer Testifies Of 'Hurricane Highway'" Testimony confirms the obvious; "MRGO" Canal funnels ocean storm surge into the heart of the metro area.

LA Coast Post: Vitter's Hurricane Hijinx Senator Vitter: Still a Weasel.

Village Voice: Hopeful Dispatches From the 40th Jazz & Heritage Festival

Gambit Weekly: Ray Nagin: the Blur Clancy DuBois riled into rant mode.
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In flew Enza [30 Apr 2009|09:26pm]
[ music | Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You ]


Tracking Swine Flu on the Computer Machine

Center for Disease Control: Swine Influenza and You

World Health Organization announces Category 5 "pandemic is imminent". Uh, What? It's a good thing.



Bring out your dead!


John Barry, author of the book about Great Flu Pandemic, is concerned

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Sunshine-mobile [29 Apr 2009|05:09pm]
Solar Car Back

While out doing errands yesterday, I saw a solar powered car on Nashville Avenue, Uptown New Orleans.

It's "XOF1". The driver/chief builder Marcelo da Luz gave a little talk about it in front of one of the magnet schools. He drove it up to the Arctic Circle and is on his way down to Key West Florida.

I have a few more photos and a short video on Flickr.
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Season's Greetings [12 Apr 2009|11:29am]
Anthropomorphic poultry wearing spats and smoking tobacco bring you Easter greetings!



The Easter Cock has come! (Via finsbry)



The Easter Duck brings the traditional seasonal gift of the Easter Toothpick!

(A tip o' the duckhat to [info]twindowlicker)

Happy Holidays, all!
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Escape from pirates [04 Apr 2009|02:02pm]
Hollie and I went down to the Marigny just after 5pm, got a good parking place, and enjoyed a meal at Tomatillos. Then over to the ARRR Barr for the "Pyrate Parade". There were 2 bands. I was playing in the Pirate Band brass band mostly recruited from the Pair-O-Dice Tumblers and BEAR/MOMs Band. The other was The Noisician Coalition with wacky noise making "instruments". There were lots of folks dressed as pirates, of course, in addition to bead cannons and wacky decorated vehicles.

Photo set on Flickr

We had a good time. Some fellow bandmembers were surprised the parade didn't stop when we passed Laffitte's Blacksmith Shop to have drinks and toast the city's historic favorite local pirate. No bar break? The Tumblers can teach the Pirates something about parading around the French Quarter.

This evening we're going to a krewe party.
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Bunny Music [01 Apr 2009|09:57pm]
The other day I got together with some musicians to rehearse a couple numbers for the Easter parade. Between us. we remembered the tunes of "Easter Parade" and "Here Comes Peter Cotton Tale". When we tried playing "Peter Cotton Tail", the lead trumpet counted it off too slow, but we kept going, playing it as a funeral dirge, then kicking it off as a second line. It worked. We wondered if we should do it that way at the parade. Isn't Easter supposed to have a death and resurection theme anyway?

Some of us are also playing for the Pyrate Parade this Friday. Any good pirate brass band numbers? Or maybe pirates don't have their own tunes, they just pillage other people's music.

May as well get good use out of songs we've run through. "Here Comes Pirate Cotton Tail"? "In Your Pirate Bonnet, With the Black Flag on it..."
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Economy articles links [30 Mar 2009|03:06pm]
For those who haven't yet read either of these two articles on the US & the economy, recomended:

The Quiet Coup by Simon Johnson

The Big Takeover by Matt Taibbi
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Super Sunday [22 Mar 2009|06:36pm]
[info]mshollie and I caught the Uptown Mardi Gras Indians Super Sunday by Shakepear Park today.

My set of pix on Flickr

Ms. Hollie's pix on Facebook

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YouTube
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MeTuber [12 Mar 2009|02:21pm]
[ music | Joe Avery's Second Line ]

I've started messing around with uploading a few short video snippets taken with my pocket camera to YouTube here. (Hm, I wish I'd got more than a couple seconds of video of the St. Anne band, but I was too busy playing. Maybe Ms. Hollie can take video next time.)

Better than anything I've uploaded, check out "Battle of Jackson Square, Mardi Gras 2009". Christian Fundamentalists picketing Mardi Gras encounter a second line group and pirates armed with bead cannon.

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Republicans & the "Religious Right" [08 Mar 2009|12:47pm]
Eight minute video explains exactly where the U.S. Republican Party is today and how it got there in unusually precise detail:

YouTube: Frank Schaeffer talks with D.L. Hughley
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Froggy and Hollie's Excellent Mardi Gras [05 Mar 2009|09:36am]
[ music | I Went to the Mardi Gras, Had a Real Good Time - Snooks Eaglin ]

The weather was pretty much perfect for Mardi Gras Day this year. There are no doubt a thousand excellent ways to enjoy Mardi Gras in New Orleans; here's what [info]mshollie and I did.

Illustrated description )

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It's Carnival Time [21 Feb 2009|04:14pm]
[ music | Mardi Gras Mambo ]

Yeah, I haven't been posting very much here. I have uploaded a bunch of Carnival photos to Flickr. Infrogmation's Flickr photos

Happy Carnival, folks.

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War on Drugs: Arguements against [27 Jan 2009|10:52pm]
http://www.culture11.com/article/36436

http://culture11.com/article/36438
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Dear Mr. President [20 Jan 2009|09:05am]
From Times-Picayune advice for the new President

"The only advice I have is not to go on vacation during a hurricane." -- Mary Willis, 17, New Orleans
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Signs of the day [19 Jan 2009|03:03pm]
Buffas Happy MLK Day

Buffas Last Day Of Evil
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Farewell Address [16 Jan 2009|04:15am]
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Curious Button [27 Dec 2008|08:52pm]
[info]mshollie and I saw the film version of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" yesterday. We enjoyed it-- a well done work of cinema.

We went to a matinee at the Prytania-- unusually for a weekday matinee, the theater was filled up. Of course it was the day after Christmas, and 2nd day of a film with lots of local content.

Very good and extensive use of New Orleans settings. I recognized many New Orleans locations-- and was amazed at one shot of a 1920s street scene that use part of one corner and a couple buildings elsewhere in town cut & pasted together with period auto traffic going by to make a new seemless cityscape. The special effects were impressive without deliberately calling attention to themselves, and the cinematography just beautiful. Hey, any film that has Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, and a 1932 Packard limousine is going be damn good looking :-)
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