Everyone is overwhelmed, well at least in New Orleans they are because no one can really understand what it is like when the “season starts” like it has in this city, there are overlapping galas, overlapping events, overlapping engagements and I’m telling you all this as Voodoo Music Experience has gotten ramped up and sounds like they are broadcasting from my backyard. Whoa, whatyagonnado? So today when I was bulleting the things in my life…
I was walking the spice aisle of Rouse’s looking for asafetida and couldn’t find it, go figure, then the clerk putting up the pickle relish asked me what I was looking for and I mumbled, “just an Indian spice but I don’t see it,” – what’s it called? he asked and so I said, Asafetida and his eyes got real big and he said, “Hasta la vista to you too, lady.” We belly laughed for…
All of us have blistered lips from Tin’s hand, foot and mouth disease – who said it was only for children? Nobody.
I was plugged into my computer for nearly the whole day, working on the past and working on the future and not spending a lot of time in the present. So at 6PM I ran downstairs, showered and got the whole family rallied to go hear Gal Holiday at the Ogden After Hours and it turned out to be a lot of fun. We saw friends, we listened to music, and afterwards we stopped at…
The history of Blacks and Jews goes back a long, long way and actually only in modern times did the cultures clash. So it with ignorance that this woman has posted this YouTube video saying that all Zionist Jews that run the Federal Reserve should be run out of this country. Someone needs to sit her down and give her a history lesson or help her with diversity training like substitute Jew for black and…
A friend writes to me today that she is concerned about the strong anti-Semitic tone the Occupy Wall Street conversation is taking. And I for one say, when in doubt, blame the Jews. In the world of WWJD, it would be rape and pillage right? I am not talking about that Jew now am I? No I meant What Would Jews Do? So there is some report issued in 1999 that said 50% of Wall…
Today and yesterday and the day before have been those kinds of crazy lunatic days where so much is happening that when I get in bed my mind’s eye feels like an iPhone going frame to frame with a slush. Seriously, I need a break. The good news is that I’m working on all the things I love but the bad news is that my loving cup runneth over. I ordered an iPhone to ensure…
Tatjana juggles, it is something about her that endeared me from the moment we met. She’s actually quite good with a ball – she was a national basketball player for Croatia, she’s good at handball; she just has great eye hand coordination. I don’t. I usually duck if a ball is headed my way. But I am the master of juggling proverbial balls in the air. Right now I feel like the Cat in the…
Yesterday, the bill came in for all the work that has been done on the LaLa and after I picked myself off the floor, I just thought to myself, well everybody and everything needs something. Right now, we have a son in school that needs help from parents, we live in a neighborhood with two historic bridges (watch this video) that need help, we live in a 100-year-old house that needs constant TLC, we have…
I was speaking to a friend of mine who lives down in Florida and plays one hell of a harmonica and he said he doesn’t come play New Orleans because we don’t pay our musicians enough. Lord today. That’s why I impress upon Tin that he has to tip the musicians when they play so nicely for us as we walk through the quarter. They’re our responsibility. Much like the bridges that I’m working on…