The crazy-ass Bostonian Irish bouncer outside the bar on Chartres St. was hollering at passing tourists when we approached. I guess “hawking” would be the actual term for it, really, but his base nature and style made it more like hollering. Invitational hollering, to be exact. “Come hear live music! See the Green Fairy! Come…
Category: Music
Gasp! Date Night!
Holy wow, retail schedules have me a’runnin’! It is an interesting experience, after having a constant schedule for over a decade, to have my routine change week by week. I am not complaining, though. It wipes me out, but at least I never fall into a rut, to say the least. I get one day…
Touch Wood, Scratch a Stay, Turn Three Times
…”May the Lord and saints preserve us.” One must do this, aboard a ship, for luck, as my own dad (a salty dog in his own right) reminded me when I told him the ships were a’comin’. I can safely report that J and I did just this, on all three tall ships when we…
French Quarter Festival, At Last!
I seem to be having more adventures that I can write about in a timely manner. Of course, the hotel having a busted wireless modem didn’t help, or else I would have been all tidily caught up by now…I have been internetless for days. Today, it occurred to us that I could freely network in…
Follow Your Crazy 