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Honorary Orleanians
Posted on February 01, 2008Here?s something to kick off your four-day Mardi Gras weekend: the Grateful Dead performing Iko Iko, with lead vocals by Jerry Garcia.
Easier and harder
Posted on February 01, 2008?The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says, ?Give me all. I don?t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you.... Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked?the whole outfit...
Strange coincidence
Posted on January 31, 2008Alice Cooper?s birthday: February 4.Al Kooper?s birthday: February 5.
Thank you, John Edwards
Posted on January 30, 2008When John Edwards kicked off his presidential campaign in New Orleans, a cynical person could suspect him of opportunism. Today, in ending his campaign, he returned to New Orleans. Cynical me cannot think of an ulterior reason for him to do that. God speed, John Edwards...
Franz Jagerstatter
Posted on January 28, 2008Last night, I read a one-page article in Sojourners about Franz Jagerstatter (1907?1943), and was awed. I want to share it with you, but unfortunately it seems to be the only article from the current issue that?s not uploaded to the Sojourners web site...
He doesn?t look Jewish
Posted on January 28, 2008As I recall from the famous photo on the Two Virgins album, John Lennon definitely was not Jewish. Which makes this video artifact unexplainable.
He doesn???t look Jewish
Posted on January 28, 2008As I recall from the famous photo on the Two Virgins album, John Lennon definitely was not Jewish. Which makes this video artifact unexplainable.
Amazing Grace
Posted on January 27, 2008So what?s it like inside the Gospel Tent at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival? It?s exactly like this:
He must be coming for Carnival.
Posted on January 26, 2008Jesus just left Chicago, and he?s bound for New Orleans. Or so say these guys. Speaking of the blues, What About Clients? has a nice video featuring Son House, who describes what the blues is. My takeaway: ?No jumping.? Next week: Fess.
A slight change in programming
Posted on January 25, 2008Regular readers of his blog know about Saturday Evening Blues, a relatively new regular feature here of blues-oriented music videos. I had a great one lined up for tomorrow: the Grateful Dead performing Death Don?t Have No Mercy. Unfortunately, when I checked yesterday, the YouTube video was ?no longer available...
Resegregation
Posted on January 25, 2008If Kipling were alive today in America, he might write, ?Oh, black is black, and white is white, and rarely the twain shall meet.? At least not in school. Which is why Dr. King?s work is not yet done.
Gotta serve somebody
Posted on January 21, 2008Maybe the most inspirational Flash intro I?ve ever seen or heard is on the King Center?s web site. Today would be a good day to spend a minute listening to it. If you have a few extra minutes, read the Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
Johnny Lee Hooker: ?Hobo Blues?
Posted on January 19, 2008This, folks, is the real deal: Johnny Lee Hooker playing Hobo Blues.
Do dogs talk?
Posted on January 19, 2008The subject of dog communication has come up on the Language Log yesterday and today. If you?re interested in the research, read the posts and follow the links. On the other hand, if, like me, you?re too intellectually lazy to do that, then watch this video spotted a few days ago on Improbable Research...
10 years ago today, ...
Posted on January 17, 2008... Junior Kimbrough died. Last August, I posted this music video of his song Sad Days, Lonely Nights. I thought that today would be a good day for a rerun.
Answer: Not since Katrina.
Posted on January 16, 2008The Onion asks the man and woman on the street what they think of Bobby Jindal?s inauguration as governor of Louisiana. One steelworker asks rhetorically, ?Man, Louisiana goes from a woman to an Indian. Are we still classifying Louisiana as part of America??
Susan Tedeschi: ?Wait for Me?
Posted on January 12, 2008Here?s Susan Tedeschi performing Wait for Me, from her album Live from Austin TX. See also Otis Redding at ?What About Clients?? Next week here: Johnny Lee Hooker. In the pipeline: the Grateful Dead, Fess, the Black Keys, Son House, Robert Johnson, Gatemouth, ZZ Top, and Skip James...
Today?s legal news: Theft of brains
Posted on January 11, 2008It seems that in Maine, a research lab has been sued for removing brains from corpses. The lab, which collects brains for research into mental disease, is alleged to have collected some brains without consent of the decedent?s family. News story here...
Loneliest in a crowd
Posted on January 10, 2008?Who has not, at some time, been lonely in the midst of a social event? The feeling of our separation from the rest of life is most acute when we are surrounded by it in noise and talk. We realize then much more than in moments of solitude how strange we are to each other, how estranged life is from life...
A prophet in New Orleans
Posted on January 08, 2008New Orleans has the dubious honor of being the 2007 Murder Capital of the United States. Some people think that?s no big deal, because most of the victims are gangsters or druggies. One person, Charles Anderson, thinks otherwise; he believes that each of those lives is precious...
Then I must not be a rational person.
Posted on January 08, 2008Bill Maher, whom I usually like, actually said this:You can?t be a rational person six days a week ? and on one day of the week, go to a building, and think you?re drinking the blood of a two-thousand-year-old space god.Bad theology there, Bill. Actually the Word is more than 2,000 years old...
A status report on New Orleans
Posted on January 08, 2008January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman god. Yat Pundit appropriately uses Janus as a theme for summarizing the dual state of things in New Orleans as we begin 2008. There?s the good face, experienced by tourists and those living in some neighborhoods...
One more question in response to Mr. Vance
Posted on January 06, 2008Here?s a little thought experiment in response to Beaumont Vance?s little opinion piece: Let?s say that the U.S.A. is involved in a controversial war ? exactly 51% of the population and 51% of Congress think we need to fight this war; the other 49% oppose the war...
Keb? Mo? and Corey Harris: ?Sweet Home Chicago?
Posted on January 05, 2008Keb? Mo? and Corey Harris do a Robert Johnson number: Sweet Home Chicago. Next week: Susan Tedeschi. In the pipeline: Johnny Lee Hooker, the Grateful Dead, the Black Keys (I love those guys), Son House, the aforementioned Robert Johnson, Gatemouth Brown, ZZ Top, and Skip James...
Q: Who is Beaumont Vance, and what does he know?
Posted on January 03, 2008A: He has his own web site, so he must be an expert. He wrote this piece for his own newsletter, Risk Management Reports, which he humbly describes as ?a synthesis of the leading thought on risk and uncertainty from hundreds of different sources...
Tanned, rested, and ready
Posted on January 03, 2008Yesterday Mike announced his return to blogging at Crime & Federalism, where he will provide ?[d]aily commentary on criminal law, civil rights, and what?s new and outrageous in the law.? Last September he began a hiatus. Now he?s back, with batteries recharged...
Logan
Posted on December 29, 2007My cousin Katy sent me a link to this video with a Christian message.
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