Category: bodega

Got separated from B and friends on the way in and couldn’t get back together till the rendezvous at 5. Lesson: Always have a backup plan. Again, more flesh on the bones when there’s time: small gumbo large rosemint tea, unsweetened D.L. Menard & the Louisiana Aces (Fais Do-Do stage) small oyster po’boy Sunpie Barnes…

I’ll flesh this out later… soft-shell crab po’boy Red Stick Ramblers (B’s favorite of the day) rosemint tea Savoy Doucet Cajun Band John Rankin contemporary crafts fried seafood salad iced cafe au lait w/ beignets Bonerama (trombone jazz-fusion, my favorite of the day) Quintology mandarin orange tea String Cheese Incident (two songs) back to Quintology…

Expect to see only occasional updates here for the next week. I’m off on my annual pilgrimage to New Orleans for the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Music, food, sun, and did I mention food?

If not plugged in, this brain will go to sleep in a few minutes to preserve the contents of memory

Finally got a chance to see the complete cut of “The Saragossa Manuscript” on DVD on Sunday, a beautiful twisted black-and-white film from 1965 by a Polish director based on an 18th century novel by a Polish count in French about a manuscript in Spain and roughly eight to thirteen levels of stories-within-stories, depending on…

Been on this planet so long I’ve started to take it for granted. Sitting out in the backyard this past weekend, trying to get over this hacking cold, trying not to think about the remaining deadlines on my book, trying to get organized for our trip to New Orleans, admiring the roses blooming all around…