Meanwhile, back at home I read the headlines and they are still stuck in death death death. Someone is killing someone every day in New Orleans. The New York Times this morning said that there is going to be a major overhaul of the police system – but the whole system is rotten from the top down. Someone commented, where is Vice President Jindal while this is all going on – you tell me. Here…
I wrote earlier about the horror of the fake brass bands, but it’s not as if I don’t understand why people come to New Orleans craving an authentic experience. Take this email that my neighbor sent yesterday: Tom is sitting on his balcony playing Honky Tonk Blues with a fellow musician. Tom is playing harmonica and the other is playing guitar. This is truly heaven. The Tom she speaks of is our very own Tom…
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…
Okay right, today is a phenomenal day if not bordering on already hot like in growing into summer hot. But I stumbled up on an article written by Alex Rawls in Offbeat recently that I found disquieting if not downright alarming. And then today, I received an email with a link to another article about the broken NOPD. So let’s tally this, Silence is Violence sent out an email about a vigil for five teenagers…