We went over to Super Sunday today to see the Mardi Gras Indians and Tin decided sans costume that he was an Indian and he would march regardless. And so we had fun, we ran into lots of friends and it was a beautiful day and everyone was in a lovely mood. A friend is about to give birth, another seemed to have separated from her husband, and others were just out enjoying the day.…
I came across this video again that Chuck Perkins did – note me in the long red wig – and thought, my my, how far we’ve come.
Chuck Perkins sent me this clip from the opening of the Healing Center, you’ll see me pushing Tin in his stroller a couple of times but you have to wait till the very end to see Tin as the star of the show. Go Tin! and Go Healing Center!
Thirty-seven days to Jazz Fest, but who is counting? Today begins the Tennessee Williams Festival and this year we’re celebrating his 100th birthday. Tom McDermott and Evan Christopher have a new CD and they are playing together @ 6PM at the Botanical Gardens in City Park. Chuck Perkins joins others to kick off some spoken word at One Eyed Jack’s in honor of Tennessee Williams @ 8PM.
Both of us got up at 4:30 this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep and both of us had Mike Tyson on our minds. There was an article on the now reformed Tyson in the NYT magazine this Sunday and he said he goes to bed every night at 8 and gets up at 2:30 and then takes a walk around the neighborhood. The difference is that I had to wait till it was…
If ever the city needed a poet who speaks for its soul, New Orleans needs one and here is one of NOLA’s finest – a posting to his Facebook page: Murder in New Orleans by Chuck Perkins on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 8:49pm The phrase, “a lot of my friends are dead or in jail”, no longer evokes shock or horror”, its meaning has become tamed. Too many mentions in movies and songs; too much…