As you walk through the French Quarter in the days before Mardi Gras, amuse yourself with the following games ( Read more... )

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I'm tremendously excited about seeing one of my favorite writers, Brenda Marie Osbey, riding as the Honorary Muse in the Krewe or Muses parade in New Orleans tonight.

Excitement of a different sort comes with the news, reported in Da Paper this morning, that the Krewe of Chaos, heir to the old-line Krewe of Momus, whose parade last Carnival was ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I go south for Carnival. (The cats are coming with me. John joins on the weekend!)

Today, I’m making gumbo. Why?

• Because everybody liked the gumbo I made for our Twelfth Night party
  
• Because our church has a traditional Mardi Gras party
  
• Because I was asked to be on the planning committee
  
• Because the planning committee didn’t really want ( Read more... )

Amidst coverage of the (latest) really horrifying murder in New Orleans last week, in which a teen-ager apparently lost a fistfight, then was sent out by his mother with a gun to get revenge on the other boy, who had just returned home from his Katrina exile (yes, he was SENT OUT BY HIS MOTHER WITH A GUN TO GET REVENGE), was this only-in-New- ( Read more... )

From the TV show 24 comes this speech by the fictional President Wayne Palmer. Ficitonal, because who could imagine that any US President would even contemplate suspending Constitutional rights for the sake of political expediency?
Some of you seem to feel that the Constitution is somehow vaild only during times of peace, not during wartime. That ( Read more... )

Well, the Montgomery Advertiser has shown no interest in this, so I’ll post it again, without restrictions. We really did have a power failure the night of the State of the Union address; I'm not sure we would have listened to it very closely if we could have done so.

January 24, 2007 ( Read more... )

From her last column, January 11, 2007
We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of ( Read more... )

From the T-P:

Muse news: Louisiana poet laureate Brenda Marie Osbey, who won the American Book Award for her collection, "All Saints," will reign as Erato in the Krewe of Muses' 2007 Mardi Gras parade on Feb. 15

This is wonderful choice in so many ways! Did you know that Grace King and her family once lived on Erato Street?

I hesitate to post this link, because it’s so painful to read, but those who don’t read the Picayune regularly may have missed it. In the piece, physician Paul Gaillunas pays tribute to his wife, filmmaker Helen Hill, who was murdered in their Marigny home 3 weeks ago ( Read more... )