Sales Tax Holiday

Hurricane sales tax holiday set for May 26-27
BY: The Associated Press


BATON ROUGE — Stocking up on flashlights, batteries and other items to get ready for hurricane season this summer? You might want to wait until May 26 and 27, when the state holds a sales tax holiday for hurricane preparedness items.

That weekend, Louisiana residents won't have to pay the 4 percent state sales tax on a list of items such as flashlights and candles, weather radios, waterproof sheeting, gas or diesel fuel tanks, batteries and chargers, and storm shutter devices. The sales tax holiday exempts the first $1,500 of the purchase price.

Local sales taxes still apply unless the municipality exempted them.

Hurricane season begins June 1.

interesting quote

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.' "

--Alfred Brendel,
Austrian pianist

Mission Accomplished

I saw this on Facebook this morning and had to share it. hee hee hee

Still Beautiful

Seen pre-Katrina at Fountainebleau State Park in Mandeville, LA.
It's still there, although much smaller

Happy Birthday, New Orleans

Farewell, Mr. Helm

Levon Helm left us today at the age of 71.

He was awesome.

Here's a link to a short slideshow from the NYT website

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/04/18/arts/20120418HELM.html

Pulitzer for Huffington Post

HuffPo receives its first Pulitzer

link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/business/media/2012-pulitzer-prize-winners-announced.html?emc=na

headline of the day

Man arrested for shooting hiker http://www.nbc33tv.com/news/crimetracker/man-arrested-for-shooting-hiker-who-he-thought-was-a-turkeywho he thought was a turkey

Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper loses it during a "Dyngus Day" report. It's priceless

Free Choice (?)

Still Missing Ashley Morris

Four years ago today the NOLA blogsphere lost a very strong voice. Ashley Morris passed away YEARS TOO YOUNG on a trip to Florida. At first I thought it was a late April Fools joke. Then - reading other NOLA blogs - I discovered it was true.

I look back in Thanks Katrina for the collective sadness at the loss of Ashley.
Check this link out to find out how one passionate person changed how people reacted. We still miss you, Ashley.

Here's a link to Ashley's blog with his greatest hits on the left side of the page


Charlotte over at Nolafemmes put a lump in my throat with this post.