Category: Miscellany

  • Jazz Fest 2003, day 1

    …took a bunch of pictures, here are just a few (insterspersed among a quick rundown of music and eats)… large iced café au lait 3 beignets Hackberry Ramblers (Fais Do-Do stage) … their 70th anniversary, fresh back from Europe and the Today Show, their 16th straight year at Fest… some technical difficulties, gremlins, intros, 3rd…

  • The feeling of vacation. "Are

    The feeling of vacation. “Are you going to do any blogging when you’re here?” my friend S asked me. I told him probably not. Maybe I’ll upload some digital pix from around town or from the crowds (or stage shots) at Fest. But I did have to get online to send a file I had…

  • The feeling of vacation

    “Are you going to do any blogging when you’re here?” my friend S asked me. I told him probably not. Maybe I’ll upload some digital pix from around town or from the crowds (or stage shots) at Fest. But I did have to get online to send a file I had been unable to send…

  • Selective demagoguery update

    I see lots of kvetching over at Instapundit today about details of the looting, convoluted meta-arguments about WMD, and the strange idea that Tim Robbins and Michael Moore have claimed that they’ve been repressed “by the system” while straw-liberals the world around have ignored Castro’s crimes. (Has anyone compared Hollywood union techs and baseball hagiography…

  • Democracy, Whisky, Sexy!

    I’ve noticed that many people found the declaration by an Iraqi quoted in the New York Times a few weeks ago to be a great slogan for western values of freedom and the pursuit of happiness. I prefer my spelling, in the title above, to the more typical “Whiskey” spelling. Why? Because it echoes the…

  • YA meme tracker page

    What’s Happening is yet another page that comprises a good list of sites that tell you what’s popular now on the interwebnet. [via Anil‘s sidebar links]