PoBoy Festival - November 14th

I noticed that I get a lot of hits from people searching for the PoBoy Festival. Here's the website for this Festival



Here's a link to the list of vendors participating.













Hungry Yet?

Farewell to Six Flags

A very interesting take on the abandoned Six Flags Theme Park in New Orleans East:



Update 11/10/10: The park may NOT be demolished in 2011 as stated in the video.
For perhaps the fourth time, the park may be redeveloped.

Scuzzbucket of the Week

None other than ego maniac who should've listened to his Mama when she was teaching him manners.



Prima Donna Randy Moss
Released by the Vikings today, Moss is said to have had a very loud verbal tirade against the man catering a lunch in the Vikings locker room on Friday

and the following Sunday, Moss ranted and raved about the Minnesota coach Childress, questioning his decisions.


He talked about how much he missed his former teammates and Bill Belichick, who he called “the best coach in football history.”


The wideout then suggested his efforts to provide his current coaches and teammates with inside information about the Pats’ offense had been largely ignored, saying, “I tried to prepare, tried to talk to the coaches and players about how this game was going to be played – a couple tendencies here and a couple tendencies there. But the bad part about it, you have six days to prepare for a team and on the seventh day … I guess they come over to me and say, ‘Dang Moss, you were right about a couple plays and a couple schemes that they were going to run.’ It hurts as a player that you put a lot of hard work in all week and … when you get on the field, that is when they acknowledge all the hard work.”



I'm so glad that New Orleans is a class act.

A Rich Tradition

I'm not a big Halloween freak, guess I don't have the imagination for it. Besides that, horror movies/costumes give me the heebee jeebees.

I do love the history that comes with All Saints Day, though. Living in the Bayou Liberty/Lacombe section of southeast Louisiana with its large population of creoles, All Saints Day is celebrated in quiet beauty.

DuBuisson Cemetery (http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/sttammany/cemeteries/dubuiss.txt)is a very old graveyard that dates back to the 1800's.



Every All Saints Day, the graves are cleaned and small candles are lit right around dusk. Seeing this creates a most ethereal feeling. I haven't been there for several years and the last time I went I had to keep an eye on two young children who wanted to climb all over the graves. My daughter is now away at college and I’m thinking that perhaps hubby and I may visit Dubuisson Cemetary tonight.
 

Bonfouca has many different pronounciations: "BON FOO KA" "BON FUCK A" "BONNA FOOKA". Take your choice. :)

 

Saints' 44th Birthday

A repeat from a year ago.  http://thanks-katrina.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-bday-saints.html

The Saints are celebrating their 44^th Birthday AND a win last night against the Steelers.

WHO DAT

 

 

Why I Love Jon Stewart

Rally to Restore Sanity and/or FearJon Stewart - Moment of Sinceritywww.comedycentral.com

Rally to Restore Sainty and/or Fear

The Daily Show

The Colbert Report

Press Conference - Internet Influence

Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
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Wildlife Impacts Six Months After the Spill - Animal Planet Gulf Oil Spill#tp

Wildlife Impacts Six Months After the Spill - Animal Planet Gulf Oil Spill#tp

A use for some of that BP Oil

found at Gizmodo.com

From something so horrible comes something pretty eye-catching—and beneficial for the charity the profits support.

From scooping up the oil, to the gunk being used as paint in the screen-printer, the photos paint a story of the BP oil disaster six months later. Burrill said of his posters "here is a perception among many people that the oil in the Gulf of Mexico is just going to somehow disappear…For people in the Gulf, including Louisiana, the effects of this disaster will be around for a long time."

Profits for the sale of the 200 posters will be donated to the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, a voluntary organization that protects and restores the coastline. They cost $210 each (after converting from 150 Euros), which isn't cheap, but considering they're limited edition screen-prints signed by the artist and for a worthy cause, I'm sure they'll be snapped up in no time.

New Hurricane Museum

From nola dot com

The Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans remembers the devastation and showcase the renewal with a new exhibit years in the making. Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond is a $7.5 million exhibit opening on the ground floor of the historic Presbytere in the French Quarter’s Jackson Square. The 6,700 square-foot installation tells the stories of real people caught in the hurricane’s wrath. It tells of their rescue, recovery, rebuilding and renewal in a way certain to move both those who survived the storms of 2005 and those who watched the events unfold on TV.

The show is billed by the museum as the largest hurricane exhibition in the world, and it covers a lot of ground: the nature of hurricanes, Hurricane Betsy and other storms that hit New Orleans in the past, levee engineering, coastal marshes, Hurricane Rita and of course the full story of Katrina’s impact, from evacuation to flooding to the city’s gradual repopulation, rebuilding and recovery.




The first object that will meet visitors’ eyes is one of the most striking: a ruined Steinway baby grand piano recovered from Fats Domino’s flooded Lower 9th Ward home.



A pair of blue jeans shows the identification and medical information their owner wrote on them in case he was injured or killed as he sought help.

One of the most memorable items is the “Mabry wall,” the daily diary that B.W. Cooper housing complex resident Tommie Elton Mabry wrote on the walls of his apartment with a black felt tip marker, starting the day before the storm hit and continuing for weeks afterward. The museum staff painstakingly peeled off the paint bearing his journal before the building was demolished.

Besides actual artifacts, exhibits incorporate some of the hundreds of oral histories the museum has assembled. Some of them play while a simulated helicopter hovers overhead, recalling the aerial rescues of stranded residents.

Funny Diversion

Douchebags of the U.S. - classified by region . Spot on!!!

wake up BP, Feds....it's still there!

MATTHEW HINTON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE A boat travels through oil that was spotted in West Bay just west of the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River Friday October 22, 2010.

Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana fishers Friday found miles-long strings of weathered oil floating toward fragile marshes on the Mississippi River delta.

The discovery, which comes as millions of birds begin moving toward the region in the fall migration, gave ammunition to groups that have insisted the government has overstated clean-up progress, and could force reclosure of key fishing areas only recently reopened.