Two years ago today was my last day of evacucation in Austin, Texas, before I started heading back to New Orleans.

On 3 October 2005 Ms.Hollie and I had BBQ for lunch at Ruby's-- sorry, anyone who thinks that's quality BBQ needs to come eat at "The Joint" in Bywater, New Orleans. The Tex-Mex place our kind hosts tooks us to for dinner that night ( Read more... )

A couple of good ones from yesterday's Times-Picayune editorials:

James Gill: Creationists are Vitter's latest hookup

John Maginnis about "K-Ville": State will pay to have its name trashedThe second episode of "K-Ville" was worse than the first. Even the accents got worse. The scene with the local cop eating OATMEAL with hot sauce created a ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying some excellent Swiss cheese... not the type with holes in it, but cheese brought from Switzerland by my friend Wolf who lives in Zurich ( Read more... )