how to purchase antabuse We woke up to Easter Sunday in New Orleans. We planned to go to church and get down to Venice as quickly as possible – Catherine needed to drive back to Kentucky that same day. We also wanted to stop at a grocery store to make sure we had enough food for the rest of […]
Tag Archives: New Orleans
Easter in New Orleans.
04-May-14Down to New Orleans.
01-May-14buy priligy paypal We got out of the Smokies after noon, and now we were pressed for time. It was mid-day on Holy Saturday, and by Monday morning we would have to drive down to the southernmost point in Louisiana – almost two hours south of New Orleans – and then Catherine would leave me, driving the truck […]
Random New Orleans Car…
24-Mar-11… with a shellacked alligator as a hood ornament. A small metal hook, which had been welded onto the hood, kept it in place. There’s nothing difficult about installing such an ornament on one’s car: it’s just that you never ever see it done. When I told a friend about this, he said, “Everyone knows […]
Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke.
03-Jun-09“Mean old Levee taught me to weep and moan.” – old Blues song. If you want to get on the emotional inside of the experience of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans – and hence to feel the depth of America’s racial and economic segregation – then you would do well to watch Spike Lee’s documentary […]
Last Night in New Orleans.
29-Apr-09The last page of a very nice chapter. As always, it’s hard to know what I’ll be taking from here until I’ve arrived at the next place. But I know I’ll know what it means to miss New Orleans.
New Orleans Sidewalks.
26-Apr-09How can you not love a city whose streets look like this? Such luxuriance of life. Bloomberg I’m sure would give this family a summons for obstruction of the sidewalk.
The artist Kreg Yingst was at Jazzfest, with his block prints generally related to Blues music. I was very impressed at how he had extracted lines from these Bluesmen which basically indicated a thorough experience-based Christianity. One of Reverend Robert Wilkins, with the inscription, “Well Father said, ‘See my son coming home to me.’ Father […]
Jazzfest and the Blues.
26-Apr-09This evening at Jazzfest, I listened to Wynton Marsalis and his band play Duke Ellington’s “New Orleans Suite.” It was a fine moment in every way – not only a superior performance, but the piece had been commissioned for Jazzfest forty years ago, by the man who apparently got it all started, George Wein, who […]
The Church that Is the World.
23-Apr-09On Bayou Road, New Orleans. Bayou Road is a strange road, an old Indian path that goes contrary to gridding of the city’s streets. And as you would expect in New Orleans, there are strange things on it.
Byzantium, the New Orleans of the Roman Empire.
04-Jan-10From the Stupid Ancients department. The technique of Leonides, here, might inspire a gifted statesman to find a way to save New Orleans. “The inhabitants of Byzantium, who are formidable tipplers, are reported to live in bars, moving out of their own houses and dwellings, which they let to foreigners visiting the city. They abandon […]