Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans

• Oh Give Me A Noose I Can Hang From The Tree

  Yes, well, this one has been done before but I’m going to try to maintain a modicum of, um, class. Or culture. Or something. Hell, I just like it and it’s Tom Waits. If you’re just wandered in here looking for something else: Happy Hostilidays. [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:42pm EST
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• The Gift

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  OK, not exactly a holiday video for the increasingly infamous NOLA Bloggers War On Christmas, (aka The Hostilidays) but also because this is the piece I suggested Lou For A Day should stand up on the bar and declaim at Mimi’s if I can scrape off the right-channel music track. [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 9:48am EST
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• Odd Words

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  So, it’s Thanksgiving Weekend and everyone is probably exhausted from the horrible Mimosa-Sazerac-wine-Belgian Ale-absinthe hangover we try to blame on the triptophan and that fourth helping of oyster dressing. (What, you don’t serve absinthe after dinner?) So of course there’s not much going on for this column. Sure, I could [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:48am EST
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• Thankful

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  You have to love a holiday that is primarily about eating and drinking whatever sort of civics class fatherland malarkey They have tried to drape the table with. Thanksgiving is the holiday (I will bet you a bottle of wine) at which you will find yourself trying to remember the [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:38am EST
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• Is It Supersonic?

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  I’m a big fan of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, but I wasn’t aware of this odd film featuring Kirk and John Cage, with Cage providing the libretto and some of the mix and overdubs to Kirk’s music. Some people think Kirk is just a freak show, the man who can blow [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:52pm EST
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• Prisoners

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  This week I watched cable channel AMC’s television series The Prisoner, a very loose remake of the famous 1960s series staring Patrick McGoohan about a government agent who, on attempting to resign, is kidnapped and taken to a dystopic resort/retirement home called The Village. The 21st century version, based on [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:35am EST
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• Odd Words

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  On the road for business so no real time for a column this week. There is no Susan Larson listing (the rumor is she took the T-P buyout) so you might want to check the listings on Nordette Adams’s Examiner list. § Update I missed this while on the road, and [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:50pm EST
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• Crunk Before Halftime

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  How improbable is a New Orleans Saints Superbowl? The Yellow Blog tests the limits of Infinite Improbability, probes Life, The Universe and Everything to give us this answer: If the creation of [the] Higgs boson particle is so catastrophically unlikely that it is capable of extra-temporally preventing its own occurrence, [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:04pm EST
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• Voodoo Chile

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  Driving down Veterans Highway through Metairie after two beers at lunch, on the uncertain foundation of Vietnamese soup, Electric Ladyland seemed an odd choice to pop into the CD player. Its something we would have listened to cruising after lunch with a joint back at De La Salle. Once it [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:35pm EST
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• Odd Words

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  Welcome back to my weekly grab bag of mostly literary events around New Orleans, a short list of what appeals to me, and some links to Internet articles on writing and literature, and some other Odd Bits. § First off is this weekend’s Fringe Festival. There are frankly too many wonderful [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:00am EST
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• Odd Words Addendum

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  I don’t know how this slipped by mind last Thursday (or all week, really, and now I’m pretty sure I can’t go) but poet C.D. Wright will be reading at Newcomb College at 730 pm this evening (Monday, Nov. 9) in the Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center. Wright is the [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:28am EST
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• I’m Not Bukowski

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  “I’m not Bukowski,” Ray said the other day and, no, he’s not. He’s sober, for one thing, and certainly a better writer for it. We are both about as unlike Bukowski as possible: worrying about raising the kids, shuffling the litter of bills on the counter, lumbering into work when [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:43am EST
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• Odd Words

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  Two big events this week: first the NOLA Bookfair and the second the new store grand opening and anniversary celebration of Maple Street Books. § The NOLA Bookfair is “an annual celebration of independent publishing and alternative media featuring small presses, zinesters, book artists, anarchists, rabblerousers, and more!”. I will be [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:00am EST
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• Dancing Madly Backwards

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  The old bricks of the Lafitte Housing Project are gone, leaving just a scar of tall grass and piles of dirt, a thin stump forest of new pilings naked and brown rising up like the dead cypress trees in Bienvenue and St. Bernard, like the gray leafless forest that lines [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:21am EST
  by mf