The latest seasonal photo of Fats Reminded of his legacy and the inspiration he has been for so many musicians, Fat’s simply said, “That’s nice.” Fats DominoKrewe of OrpheusMardi Grasmusicnew orleans
Today marks Toole’s birthday a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
Your total ignorance of that which you profess to teach merits the death penalty. I doubt whether you would know that St. Cassian of Imola was stabbed to death by his students with their styli. His death, a martyr’s honorable one, made him a patron saint of teachers. Pray to him, you deluded fool, you…
A week in which we’ve lost yet another . . . but think about the richness they have provided us. A life well lived. Allen ToussaintErnie K-DoeJazzjazz Festminit recordsmusicnew orleans
The Naturally N’Awlins chef has died. foodFrank DavisNaturally N’Awlinsnew orleans
As a lecturer Dr. Talc was renowned for the facile and sarcastic wit and easily digested generalizations that made him popular among the girl students and helped to conceal his lack of knowledge about almost everything in general and British history in particular (p. 110). a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
Thelma being . . . Thelma . . . what with the ubiquitous piano. (Also I’ve just noted that the excellent documentary on Toole, a collaboration between Toole biographer Corey MacLauchlin and film-maker Joe Sanford, has been updated — and there is now a transcript which I’d have found handy when writing my forthcoming review of…
An eloquent review of the final season of Treme from the LA Times. the series takes its form from the city’s substance; it does not so much present a point of view as embody a perpetual argument….It is romantic and naturalistic at once, as dreamy and earthy as the place in which it takes place…
We do correspond quite regularly, the usual theme of Myrna’s correspondence tending to urge me to participate in lie-ins and wade-ins and sit-ins and such. Since, however, I do not eat at lunch counters and do not swim, I have ignored her advice. The subsidiary theme in the correspondence is one urging me to come…
This from Sean Brock, The Mind of a Chef. catfishfoodnew orleanssean brockThe Mind of a Chef
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