Wow, what a difference a year makes…could it be, now that the absentee mayor-ship of Ray Nagin is over, New Orleans finally has a competent mayor…too soon to tell, but this is better than I could have hoped for with the former, who probably would be somewhere in Houston getting dinner by now… Landrieu Steps Up to Oil Spill Challenge, by Stephanie Grace Continue reading Don’t Miss Ya Ray…
Check the link on the side for Phil Anselmo’s New Orleans based Housecore records, including his new punk band, Arson Anthem with Hank Williams III…definitely worth it… Definitely… Hell, I even bought the T-shirt… Continue reading Housecore Records…presents Arson Anthem…
Picked up this book at a favorite bookstore in New Orleans called Faulkner Books located in Pirate’s Alley…read it on the flight home, highly recommended and nothing I need to add to it… Here is the afterword…by Tom Piazza: “How to convey the mixture of gratitude and grief, anger and joy, worry and hope, that we in New Orleans live with everyday? I don’t know … Continue reading Afterword to Why New Orleans Matters – Tom Piazza
Great trip to New Orleans…been spending the past few days reading the news and I got me much, much anger…more to come later but for now…enjoy… Down: On March the Saints Continue reading I’m back…with Down
I will eat my words…okay, well some of them if this comes to pass…this is from Anderson Cooper where Douglas Brinkley is discussing a Gulf Recovery Act, on the magnitude of the St. Lawrence Seaway…all funded by BP and TransOcean for what they’ve done. If this is correct they will go after these assholes for breaking the National Resource Damage Act and the Oil Spill … Continue reading Gulf Recovery Act?
Going on vacation…going to what I like to think of as home…see ya round at the Maple Leaf, Rock n Bowl, Flanagans, One Eyed Jacks, Fahey’s, Molly’s, Mojo’s, Checkpoint Charlie’s, Apple Barrel, Vaughn’s, The Spotted Cat and of course, down by the river… Back in a week… As always…Have a nice day… Continue reading Going to New Orleans…
Okay, I’m drunk… I’m watching hockey, I’m listening to Atari Teenage Riot and I’m drunk… Thad Allen today said the oil spill could last into the fall… Tony Hayward said he wouldn’t step down as CEO of British Petroleum… Barack Obama was doing…oh, I don’t know…something… Glenn Beck was hiding under a desk somewhere from people like me who, oh yeah…we’re out to get that … Continue reading I’m Drunk…and Watching Hockey…featuring…Cry For The Fisherman
In New Orleans, a second line parade in the Warehouse District for the Gulf of Mexico, British Petroleum Explosion Catastrophe… Sometimes…all you got left to feel in the moment is satire, well….and a crazy desire to throw anyone in the employ of British Petroleum, Halliburton and Transocean into the oil slick and light a match… Continue reading The Krewe of Dead Pelicans – from Times Picayune, photos by Michael Democker
Just some photos from New Orleans Ladder website showing the British Petroleum oil spill protest at Jackson Square, New Orleans. Continue reading British Petroleum Protest in New Orleans
Well, the top kill failed. I don’t know why this surprises me…especially since Thad Allen said a couple of days ago it was a success. If there is one thing I think we’ve all learned over this past month, it’s that if the head of the Coast Guard makes a claim it is 1. untrue, and 2. been fed to him by British Petroleum. Not … Continue reading Throw BP in the Gulf then Set the Oil On Fire
Drake Toulouse: Photography and Words 