AnimaMundi

Fried Chicken

Off The Broiler's Jason Perlow at Willie Mae's Scotch House in New Orleans. If you aren't hungry, you will be after looking at the food.

Louis Armstrong and Tabou

Thanks to Perfessor Morris and YRHT for pointing me to this article in the NYT describing how vocal Louis Armstrong was whilst some African-Americans were calling him an Uncle Tom.

Greg Giegucz

Greg Giegucz is an artist living in New Orleans. His work is wide ranging and filled with detail that stymies and mesmerizes the viewer. The above is a Fleur-de-Lis with enough detail to absorb one for days, weeks, months, years.

On his site are a number of thumb nails. If you click on the second from left on the second row from the bottom, you'll see a portrait of Johnny Cash that hangs in the Sun Studio in Memphis.

Off The Broiler Down In New Orleans

Jason Perlow of Off The Broiler and egullet continues his eating binge in New Orleans with some great high-rez food porn.

Insurance Companies and Hell

Many ignorant people will say that is what they get for living in New Orleans. Dante reserved a special place in hell for insurance companies. This is what one insurance company, FARMERS, is doing to people of the city. This is also the reason many can't afford to go back.

Wiki Timeline

Wikipedia has put together this phenomenal timeline of historic inventions. It runs from the Paleolithic Era up to 2001. Via Kottke

Rubik's Cube was invented in 1974. If you scroll down Olympicube's page there's amazing videos of Frank Morris.

Louis and Johnny Cash

John Williams of Brooklyn unearthed this great video of Louie and Johnny doing "Blue Yodel No. 9", which Louis recorded with Jimmy Rodgers back in 1930.

NYC

I didn't realize it has been six years since September 11, 2001. A friend from New Jersey who worked for Sterns Music at 15 Warren St. in the city called a few day ago. He wanted to visit for a few days, but the timing was bad for a few reasons. He's a little miffed. I tried to work with him on coming another day of the week, but no go. I feel badly because while at Sterns he gave me loads of great music from Africa, Brazil, Guadeloupe-Martinique, Cuba. He was on a train heading into Manhattan on that fateful morning. Luckily, he never left New Jersey. His office was damaged heavily since it was only a few blocks from the World Trade Center. He was out of work for a number of months until they reopened. A few years ago Sterns closed that store due to financial belt tightening. Virgin was looking to buy them out, but it never happened. It was with these thoughts in mind when I clicked on this video tribute to the city of New York.

Little Hans

Many voices are pounding home the point of what the DUTCH have done. Why the hell don't we just contract with them to do the needful? We seem to incapable of even mounting a plan much less do anything concrete about the wetlands and levees.

It's A Man's World, But It Would Be Nothing Without...

The Gurgling Cod says it right about The Godfather of Soul and Pavarotti.

Off The Broiler in New Orleans

Jason Perlow, co-founder of egullet, has been posting on Off The Broiler the results of a Southern swing through Atlanta and New Orleans. He's a good writer and loves to eat. I wish I were with him. The pictures in high rez are killing me. The first Louisiana entry is Wayne Jacob's Smokehouse in La Place.

Piety St. Sessions

After reading several reviews of James Blood Ulmer's "Bad Blood in the City: The Piety St. Sessions", I just ordered it. The Piety Street Studios in NOLA offer some of the best recording facilities in the city. Take a look at their clients.

Dooky Chase

Ray Charles went to Dooky Chase Early in the Morning. When Shrub recently went to Dooky Chase, Leah Chase said:

"If I had neighbors they'd be so surprised because they never had a president come through."

Hmm

 

Aren't Insurance Companies Great?

I believe that there is a special tailored hell just for insurance companies, particularly Allstate and State Farm. I imagine that amidst the flaming tongues of deceit, there are false promises, sardonic smiles, policies written backwards or in hieroglyphics, riders that don't ride anything, signatures that disappear, language that baffles, demonic wrangling, adjustors chained to mold infested homes taunted by rabid dogs and lots of wicked hot wind and boiling water whispering "Was it wind or water?" endlessly. You get the idea. What they have pulled in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast will not go unnoticed.