Enola Gay

Joan of Arc had a heart.

Sometimes, you just have to be what you are.  If it isn't beef or ham, you can bet it tastes like chicken.

Have I mentioned I'm a big Big Freedia fan?  Someone is listening to "Rumpshakerz" in their car at the traffic light in front of my house.  I am doing what comes naturally.  If you've got it, shake it like you mean it.

Enola Gay:

Big Freedia

I'm told Big Freedia (pronounced Frida) is going to be on the Jimmy Kimmel Show tonight.  I won't be able to catch it.  If you aren't able to either, here is a Big Freedia video.  The skyline is New Orleans.  If you've been here long enough, you know where the exterior shots were shot.

Jazz is more popular in some quarters of the city.  Bounce is bigger in others.

Ursuline Concord

Our Lady of Prompt Succor, hasten to help us!

From Hollygrove to Holy Cross, New Orleans glows.  The city radiates a magical aura from the bend in the river to Pontchartrain Park.  The sun rises in the east, a flower blossoming.  The sun sets in the west, locked away in a tomb.  If you can get from the West End to the Lower Ninth Ward in an evening, you will be back again the next day.  Desire is a state of mind that has nothing to do with Florida, but plenty to do with sunshine and retiring from the concerns of the workaday world.  

Sweat it out with Sweetheart.

Our Lady of Prompt Succor.  Sweetheart statue.

As we like to say in New Orleans, "Our Lady of Prompt Succor, hasten to help us."

If ever there was a city that could help itself, it is New Orleans.  The ties that bind a community together are tight.  Superhuman vision, and a finely attuned ear, make all the difference between a comedy and a tragedy.  Five times out of six, if there is a funeral, there is sure to be a parade.

Burger King Home Delivery

Burger King Home Delivery.

According to USA Today, the nation's thinly entertaining paper of record,  Burger King is attempting a bid to capture the home delivery segment of the hamburger market.