I walked through City Park this morning, once more in awe of the beauty at my doorstep. I had been talking to someone that the need to feel restored by nature exists right outside my front door – a contemplative walk around the bayou, a stroll around the Big Lake in City Park, a longer walk through the cypress forests or abandoned golf course in the park, an urban walk to the French Quarter. One…
Offbeat is running their best of the best award and it’s time for everyone to vote. You have to shake your head at this list – it’s like an embarrassment of riches and so many that are still not even on here – no brainers are James Singleton, Trombone Shorty and his Bacca Town album – I even voted him best trumpet player for that solo he does on St. James Infirmary, best clarinetist –…
Caught in a trap – too much to do – no time to do it – and I was supposed to start my homeplay today – meaning my meditation at home – when, how, where? So a thought for the day is all I can offer: I wish there was a censor for everything that wastes my time – I just watched a Colbert Report segment because it said he was endorsing the Black Keys…
When ITV gets here, I guarantee you people will not be watching that much traditional TV – why would you when you could search Bidu Beat – the new English language blog out of China’s huge search engine and reading things like the top ten most used words on China’s internet. Just envious-jealous-hateful is itself a word worth adding to your lexicon, if you already haven’t. But the prize pick here is gellivable – loosely…
I spent a good hour today speaking to an long-time source of mine who told me that last year – in 2010 – he and his wife bought nothing. Absolutely nothing. And it was liberating – he said. I just shook my head in agreement. Liberating. I tried to reach Cox Cable today to cut the chord. And I’m this close from doing it. There is absolutely nothing we want to watch on TV –…
My sister in law sent me a pic of her and my cousin in the snow in Atlanta – gadzooks. A source of mine is out of the office due to a snow day. Granted it is chillier here in the last two days but we’re hoping this nonsense won’t last. Meanwhile, because we here in the Gulf South are winter wusses outside has been noman’s land so Tin spent yesterday inside painting and today…
China just opened its most powerful search engine to an English language blog on Chinese culture. Their thinking – take over the world. One byte at a time.
Who said that 10% is what happens to you in life and 90% is how you deal with it? I don’t know but I can tell you realistically that there are a lot of people that are not looking at 2011 with rose colored glasses. Almost as if there is a taint on the future because of the recent past. What I can tell you is that I have no great expectations set out for…
When the show was over last night at Snug, we came out to the bar and stopped to catch up with a friend. I went to the bar to get us drinks and there were four handsome young boys at the bar – one kept saying Hey! to me, and I said you better watch yourself I’m old enough to be your mother. We all started talking and I felt like I was seeing the…
The stars aligned last night as Mother Nature whipped large trees like buggy whips and rain came down the better part of the day and without asking, a babysitter came to watch Tin so we could go to Snug Harbor. We sat at a small table for two in front of the stage, spitting distance as we say around here, and the show began. Tom McDermott on piano, smiling a goofy smile as if it…