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Last Entry: April 13, 2011 at 21:15:43

It?s been fun, but I am done.

Posted on April 13, 2011
After thinking about it for quite a while, I?ve decided that this blog has run its course. Time to put ?er down. I have a lot of little reasons for this decision, but the big one is that my heart...

For Jazz Fest, must work on bilocation

Posted on April 05, 2011
A few days ago, the New Orleans Jazz Fest schedule came out. I will have a WWOZ Brass Pass, so if all goes well, I?ll be at the Fairgrounds for all seven days. The lineup looks great. And as usual,...

Sam and Dave: Too good to keep until next Saturday.

Posted on April 04, 2011
My friend Ben Opipari found this gem. It?s so good that I can?t keep it until next Saturday. So here are Sam & Dave, urging you to hold on.

Guitar duet, courtesy of the Allman Brothers

Posted on April 03, 2011
The South is the source of soul. I can offer many proofs of that statement; here is just one: the Allman Brothers? classic Blue Sky, featuring perhaps the finest guitar duet in the history of rock & roll. (Hat tip...

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Life is fragile. And control is an illusion.

Posted on April 01, 2011
Today I was returning to New Orleans from Lake Charles after a court appearance. I was driving east on I-10 in the right lane just outside of Lake Charles, with cruise control set at the speed limit, 70 m.p.h., when...

A nature documentary about the honey badger

Posted on March 22, 2011
I try to post educational or edifying stuff here. But I don?t recall ever posting a nature documentary. So to fix that omission, here is a 3� minute item about the honey badger. The narration is especially good.

A song for the Feast of St. Patrick

Posted on March 17, 2011
There are two kinds of interpretations of ?O Danny Boy?: cheesy on the one hand, and make-you-cry on the other. This interpretation by Sinead O?Connor is the latter kind.

How about a slice of ??

Posted on March 14, 2011
Today is ? Day, celebrating the ratio between a circle?s circumference and its diameter. To celebrate this great feast, the lass in this video recites ? to the 100th digit while balancing 15 books on her head and solving a...

Mississippi John Hurt

Posted on March 12, 2011
No comment needed. Just watch this. (Hat tip to Andrew Lilly.)

These photos from Japan will take your breath away.

Posted on March 12, 2011
I thought I saw bad stuff in New Orleans and along the gulf coast after Katrina. But all of that seems dwarfed by these photos of the devastation in Japan. (Hat tip to my cousin-in-law Kent.)

A thought for Ash Wednesday

Posted on March 09, 2011
?Remember, man, that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return.? Or, as Shel Silverstein put it:

Sunday morning music

Posted on February 27, 2011
How far it is from gospel to the blues? About one song. Here is Mississippi Fred McDowell.

Folks, this is the real blues, close to the roots.

Posted on February 26, 2011
If you like your blues close to the roots, then you?ll love this: R.L. Burnside doing See My Jumper out in the country.

Skip James, the Bach of the blues

Posted on February 19, 2011
My guitar tutor, Vincent, referred to Skip James as the Bach of the blues. An apt description. Here?s a pretty-good-quality video of Skip playing Crow Jane.

How placebos work, and what this means

Posted on February 13, 2011
Everyone who took a psychology course in college knows about placebos. But most of us don?t know the physiological reasons why they work. And few of us think about the implications of their effectiveness. Here?s a video that wades into...

Bring me my running shoes

Posted on February 12, 2011
Tomorrow?s Rock ?n? Roll Mardi Gras Marathon passes my front porch, right around the 7-mile split. For all competitors, I offer the good wishes of Lord Birkenhead in Chariots of Fire: ?Good luck to you all.? And I offer something...

Science meets red beans

Posted on February 08, 2011
Red-bean lovers may (or may not) be interested in the answer to this question, asked by the good folks at Improbable Research: Is 9.89 gigaherz the optimal frequency at which to scan kidney bean crops in order to obtain ground-based...

Crazy on them

Posted on February 03, 2011
Back in the 1970s, back in my college, seminary-school days, we were crazy on these two gals. Watching this today, I?m still crazy?and envious of Nancy?s fiddle.

In Australia, do the puppies circle the supper dish the other way?

Posted on January 26, 2011
Hat tip to Improbable Research for this one.

Lineup for Jazz Fest 2011

Posted on January 20, 2011
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has announced its day-by-day musical lineup for this year?s fest. We won?t have specific acts at specific stages at specific times yet, so we can?t do too much planning now. Depending on various...

Dick Winters: A real hero

Posted on January 10, 2011
Dick Winters became a hero of mine when I saw Band of Brothers. He died on Jan. 2. Regardless of your political views, this man was a hero. Hat tip to Athenae at First Draft.

Humility and its opposite

Posted on January 10, 2011
Today?s Daily Mediation from the Henri Nouwen Society: One of the greatest dangers in the spiritual life is self-rejection. When we say, ?If people really knew me, they wouldn?t love me,? we choose the road toward darkness. Often we are...

A less kind, less gentler therapist

Posted on January 06, 2011
Fortunately, my therapist isn?t like this one.

Words banished for 2011

Posted on January 01, 2011
Every year, the American people look forward to Lake Superior State University?s annual list of banished words, so much so that the list goes viral. So if you want to man up your vocabulary, refudiate misuse of overused vogue words,...

Merry Christmas, y?all

Posted on December 25, 2010
?Christmas is a special day, Don?t forget to go to church and pray.? ?Fats Domino

Let all #hostilidays cease

Posted on December 25, 2010
Christmas is here, which means that, for me at least, the Hostilidays are over. Here?s an antidote to the video pain that Hostiliday victims have suffered, and proof that YouTube can be used not only for evil, but also for...