WOO-HOOOO!!!!

It is a good day to be a Louisianan :)

Not bad for our first SuperBowl *g*

s00j concert last night was wonderful! It was a small venue, with only a handful of people there, and while I could have wished s00j a bigger audience, I actually really liked the intimacy of it. I got to meet some great people, and the other two members of the Traveling Fates were wonderful. I shall be buying CDs from them as soon as I can afford ( Read more... )

Well, apparently I have pretty decent intuition. When I first started writing the Liath story, I hadn't moved to Louisiana yet, and so the Black Rose was located pretty much in an as-yet-unnamed random city. Once I'd moved here and been to New Orleans a few times, I realised it was the perfect setting, and I could tie in all kinds of Post-Katrina ( Read more... )

So I'm reading this memoir written by one of the French Quarter holdouts during Katrina, and he's talking about how he and some of his friends dubbed themselves the Krewe of Nagin after hearing the mayor's tirade on the radio. He immediately explains in the next sentence that they were making reference to the groups that put on the Mardi Gras ( Read more... )

So I had to go down to New Orleans this morning to pick up my films from the doctor's office, which is in a more residential area than where I usually go. It's sobering to see, almost three years later, how much destruction there still is. Abandoned houses with clear hurricane damage, houses still with the FEMA codes on them, on-going ( Read more... )

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Flogging Molly is coming to New Orleans on Monday, May 14!!!!

*bounce* *bounce*

Anyone wanna come with?

Da Mayor in Your Pocket

Hee! Everyone in Louisiana should have one of these.