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Either way, it's on, Baby. Nothing but a wild party in The Easy for weeks to come. And we'll all pretend to get some work done along the way. Heh!
By the time Matt and I leave the bar and the great music behind, headed home to cook chili (more peasant food) it's all over for that play-off game except the crying. Mostly ours, as we shall get the Rams.
As is the New Orleans Way, shortly after arriving home, I get a call from the Kerry Irish Pub, confirming that I shall be available to work the door for both Super Bowl and Mardi Gras. (No sane man would agree to do this, of course, but when you're deeply in debt err' job is better than ne'er job, as the old timers used to say.) Besides, there won't be (much) of a conflict with my new job, which is nearby. I'll just have long days on Mondays and Fridays, when the best plan will be to stay in the French Quarter for a quick sandwich between jobs. With any luck, some of the other staff will kickdown a few tips .
And that's part of the New Orleans Way, too: complete dependence on the behavior of people from somewhere else. Smile and shake your money-maker.
Here's another example. In the office where I work my new Day Job on Bourbon Street, we are sitting right on stage, for all intents and purposes, because the band that plays in the club next door --- and usually kicks in between 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon --- is on the other side of the wall to our office. You can hear this band a block away from our office on Royal Street, so guess how it sounds to us.
It makes no sense in complaining. The company I work for owns a group of restaurants and nightclubs on and around Bourbon Street. They're in the same business as the place next door and are just as responsible for making sure the revelers on that strip of excess stay fat and happy. Bourbon Street is where the well-heeled go out to play.
It's the New Orleans Way that young, boho, hipster set -- all tattoos and dark clothing --- hang out on Decatur Street, rather than Bourbon, and look down their cocaine-frozen noses at Bourbon and all who go there. Coke's not the only drug to be found in the haunts of Decatur Street, of course. Heroin and pot are plentiful enough, and as you know from my personal saga, neither they nor crack go short of users in New Orleans. I've seen more people go into nods in the middle of conversations here in New Orleans than any place I've ever lived. That's one of the reasons I've told Matt I've got to leave Casa de Caca: roommate number three nods more than not and I don't like putting up with that crowd.
Their favorite places on Decatur are called The Hideout and The Abbey, but you'll find them hanging out a Monahan's Molly at the Market, as well. (The name comes from the famed French Market near the river.)
They also frequent places like the Hi-Ho, the Shim Sham and The Morgue. (The names tell almost the whole story, don't they? Each place is a bit more seedy and disreputable than the next.) Caio (roommate #3 at Casa de Caca) likes the Hideout a lot. It's full of people who don't mind the fact that the place usually reeks of vomit.
That's the New Orleans Way.
But let's end on a positive note! IF you're comin' to Nawlins for either Super Bowl or Mardi Gras, you MUST make it out to Miss May's located in the Uptown area. Miss May's is located on the corner of Magazine Street and Napoleon Avenue right across from the cop shop (police station.) It's open 24/7, as you'd expect, and is a good neighborhood bar -- even though it's near Loyola and Tulane.
Here's the Good Part: Well-drinks are only a dollar. Any time. All day. Great place to have a cheap date or just get your buzz on for cheap. That means you have to leave the French Quarter (clip joint) and its environs. You'll be glad you did.
NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA - Like all the New Orleans writers before me, now that my Darling is back, I compose this missive to you from a bar. Matt has sprung for drinks after we watched the Krewe of Barkus (dogs dressed as people) Mardi Gras parade down in the Quarter. We're sitting in a local bar called "The Spotted Cat" listening to another of the fabulous bands you get to hear in this town for free. The band is called Augie Jr. and The Big Mess Blues Band. We are waiting to see, as everyone in Nawlins is, which teams we'll be hosting next weekend. Correction: we know that the New England Patriots are coming to town. As I write this we are wondering if the St. Louis Rams, who gave us that badass shellackin' or the Philadelphia Eagles, who we'd much rather have, will be coming to town.
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