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NEW ORLEANS, 28 January, 2002 - The headline of this Sunday's New Orleans Times Picayune was "LOCKED DOWN". That's what this city is all about because we are hosting the Super Bowl in the first week of our traditional Mardi Gras. But Mardi Gras is screwed up because the NFL has bought this town, literally. As one local merchant, on St. Charles Avenue, told the newspaper: "These people are richer than God... They are making us bow down on our knees!" But like I told you last week, this town is one of biggest whores on the block. We, New Orleans, were tricked out so long ago that we don't even want a kiss anymore. It's a Rule: you don't let the johns kiss you.
What do I mean that Mardi Gras is screwed up? Well, some of the Krewes who would have done parades this week have cancelled in protest of the National Football League's appropriation of this town. The merchants in the French Quarter and the city government are crying no alligator tears. (There are 'gators down here, Baby, not crocodiles.) The woman "catty-corner" across the street from our place is renting out the back two rooms of her apartment for $500 a week during Mardi Gras. (She ain't cryin' either.)
Matt, having invited me here and wanting me to love New Orleans as he does, keeps trying to make me re-consider.
It's well-intentioned but perhaps misguided, his effort. We'll see, my loves.
I know, from many of your private messages, that you agree with the Old Man on this one.
At least I've decided not to keep my feeling a secret only revealed here anymore. I've said my two cents on the issues confronting us.
I redesign menus. I re-do forms for the liquor vendors. I write letters to hotel concierges. Office Drone.
The General Manager originally said I could even telecommute. The owners didn't concur. So I have to do Office Drone Face-time five days a week. It's cool. I'm happy to have a job, especially in Nawlins, where I do what I do best: design and computer work. Finding a job related to high-tech puts you in the 95th percentile in Nawlins.
Meanwhile, I'm doing that job at the Kerry (as in County Kerry -- sorry for the misinformation last week) Irish Pub for Super Bowl and Mardi Gras. And I'm considering taking a Janitor job at O'Flaherty's Irish Pub, too. I MEAN TO GET OUT OF DEBT. I'm not a lazy man.
Yes, I'm seriously considering having three jobs.
What would you do if you owed money to every single friend you've ever had and wanted to make your way back to Europe?
Now it's a bit of shameless promotion:
My friend Lionel Rolfe, the Menuhin scion, is doing a book signing in Los Angeles in February. Yeah, that's his picture over there. Here's the skinny: A publication party is scheduled to happen on 3 February at Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. For info, you can email "calclass@earthlink.net".
Have some more: http://la.indymedia.org/index.php3
I am all over The Eagle right now. I want my life back.
It seems that it is starting over again.
The World's Magazine will be 12 in March... and I will be 50 years old. I've almost used up my three score and ten.
"Work like you don't need the money,
"Love like you've never been hurt,
"Dance like no one is watching..."
Rod
Rod was a columnist for the Andover News Network, where he wrote over two hundred articles on web design and development issues. He was also principal writer and Editor for IT Manager's Journal, where he reviewed technology issues weekly, producing 383 editorials. He became the Managing Editor for Electronic Mail/Newsletter Publications at Andover.net at the end of February, 2000, and left in September of the same year. He was a contributing writer for ACCESS magazine, which appears both on- and offline for 10 million readers in 100 newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, Boston Herald, Austin American-Statesman, Denver Post and Orlando Sentinel, among others. Rod was the US reporter for Silicon.com, a division of Network Multimedia Television in London, UK, reaching 3.5 million European readers, until May, 2001.
Rod lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, right now. The new home of the magazine. But he plans to return to Serbia next year.
He continues to be committed to integrity, chastity and a dose of humility.
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