life has been so sodding busy and stressful this academic year that i've been doing the more typical method of escape of using telly as my downtime.  Here's some random impressions of what i've been occupying myself with and what i think about them in 50 words or less.

Gotham - ultimately boring because they're trying to establish too many things ( Read more... )

i feel like i've been neglecting LJ for the past week or so, making me feel like all of those people that abandoned proper blogging for the micro-fashion of fb/tw/g+. there have been a few entries that have gone into draft mode that has never made it on to, um, "paper".

suffice it to say that things have been sort of busy, but i could have made ( Read more... )

Laurel has commented that she likes my life update entries. I don't know if she's even regularly checking LJ these days, but it certainly seems like this blog has lately been more about life updates than the flavor it had before of being a little more cerebral. i think it goes through phases; right now it's like this because so much of my time is ( Read more... )

i forgot to write about this, and i need to because i think it's a great story.

for those that only get the outside perspective on the mardi gras beads (throw) tradition, receiving beads and throws during mardi gras is not all about showing titties. Sure, if you go to the quarter you can get some of that, but move to the garden district side ( Read more... )

the new orleans saints chant in its short form is "WHO DAT?"

after the saints won the superbowl, there were some shirts that came out that say, "WE DAT!"

but the full chant is, "who dat say they gonna beat dem saints?"

which means that the "WE DAT!" as a victory shirt slogan makes no sense because saints fans wearing the shirt who were ( Read more... )

so apparently the saints victory parade crowd count was estimated at 800,000 people.

we marched by eight hundred thousand people for three miles.

absolutely insane.

marching in the Saints victory parade was one of the most unique experiences i've ever had. the sheer amount of people was inconceivable. The energy feeding off of the crowd and off of us was indescribable.

The band and the drumline did a pretty good job too. Rough around the edges, surely, but overall we were very pleased. I heard that we ( Read more... )

i'm not one to talk about sports all that much, but this game warrants some words from me as i currently live in new orleans and there's been a lot of hype about the saints this season.

i don't have any particular hometown loyalty to the saints or anything because the reality of the matter is i don't care about football all that much. That said ( Read more... )