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Mardi Gras is over. Praise God! (That's what we say here in Nawlins as the Lenten season kicks in.) Our Grand Ordeal is over for another year. You can read about the experience from our "man on the street" (Bourbon Street, that is), our publisher, in this edition.
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NEW ORLEANS, 15 FEBRUARY, 2002 - New Orleans is the only city in America where the U.S. Postal Service does not deliver mail on Mardi Gras. I spent the week leading up to Mardi Gras Day on Bourbon Streetä working (minimum) fourteen hour days. And Mardi Gras, sans the krewe parades, on Bourbon Street isä? Let's put this way: imagine a giant frat party in the center of your town, going on for blocks and blocks, except all the businesses welcomed it and expected it to make an approximate third of their incomes, the way other businesses in the West might expect the Christmas holiday sales to make a quarter of their annual income. So people complain about the rowdy, no inhibitions, out of control ("What the hell are you doing?!? Don't piss in here!") behavior while knowing that their prosperity depends upon it.
And every bartender, waitress, cook on the beat has stories of working 14-17 hours straight, from the Wednesday before (sometimes) until the Wednesday after Mardi Gras. It's like carrying an egg as a badge of honor...More
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."----from the Walden Pond cabin site of Henry David Thoreau
The wind rushed by my ear as I crossed the great vacuum of the Void, pulling my cigarette's stream through and out the passenger side window, a steady but tentative trace of mere matter turning into smoke. Not to make too much of the purposefulness of inhaling and then exhaling carbon, blowing it out like a prayer, as it whiffs on away to mix with the whorl of particles in canyonland. The aerodynamic whistle of my red Nissan truck through indefinite space was just a heat-seeking missile without a target. You miss so much when life passes at such high speeds. Time to slow down, but how?... More
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The next morning I went to work. I called the hotel from the restaurant to discover I had been right. They had already rented my old room, but they were willing to move the new person if I wanted to come back on Monday. I trusted them. Those are good people up there on dead-end row. They said they would hold my room for me until Monday, the day before Mardi Gras. That meant I would only have to stay on N. Rampart Street one more night. I knew I could make it. Tomorrow, I thought, I'll grab my bag and be out of there. I won't even see Sammy. I won't need to. He's already taught me everything he knows about domestic living....More
Who was the best pop singer in history? Anyone who ever heard Frank Sinatra, especially during his glory days ranging from the 1940's to the 1960's would have to nod in agreement. Nobody exceeded Sinatra and probably ever will.Ý
Capitol Records has just released seven more albums in their series devoted to the Entertainer of the Century. All remastered and resulting in crisp, clear and lifelike sound, these magnificent CDs are worth adding to anyone's library. Frank was at his best during his years with Capitol, as these CDs amply demonstrate.Ý...More
Now that the dust been stirred up by President Bush's use of the term "axis of evil" in his State of Union address, the world can only look with a chill upon the agenda of the new administration in Washington. It's now clear that the war on terrorism is less about al Quaeda and Osama bin Ladin and more about dominating the international landscape through a combination of military and economic force unseen before in history. There are countries that the United States does not like, we are saying to the world and we intend to change those countries, unilaterally if necessary... More
RDR 02.06.02: Rod is back with the opening to our Super Bowl report from the Big Easy: "The New Orleans Way - Part 2."
RDR 01.28.02: Rod, our Full-time Man in The Big Easy gives you his Super Bowl and Mardi Gras warm-up. "The New Orleans Way."
RDR 01.21.02: A special treat for our 300th issue celebration: "A Mattie Lennon Sampler". Find out why our contributor from Dublin, Ireland, keeps them coming back!
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Mardi Gras is over. Praise God! (That's what we say here in Nawlins as the Lenten season kicks in.) Our Grand Ordeal is over for another year. You can read about the experience from our "man on the street" (Bourbon Street, that is), our publisher, in this edition.
