Booker T. & the MGs!
Originally uploaded by Guzilla.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Adventure
Apparently, our man in Bangkok is returning safely. Have enjoyed his running blog updates and thought I would make him this motivational poster, using a picture of him in Thailand and including an actual quote from a friend of mine in the Explorers Club. I think it's perfect on so many levels. I will be submitting it to Sky Mall.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Crawfish
Ordered way too much food at Mara's Homemade with Laurie & Matt. A good taste of New Orleans in NYC. Then we kidnapped our waitress and brought her to see Milo Z, where we danced much of it off. Mara's also carries EVERY Abita product including being the EXCLUSIVE NYC carrier of the AndyGator beer. Well done.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Our Man in Bangkok
Finally spoke to my brother over the internets today, for the first time since he's been in Bangkok. He flies out tomorrow for Singapore (visa issues) and then back to Bangkok for a week of work and then a week's vacation in Phuket, staying at the place pictured here. Not too shabby... Seems he's doing very well.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
New Orleans Jazz Vipers
Gano & I spent a delightful time with James & Reese at their place in the Marigny and then left to go on walkabout. Stumbled across The Spotted Cat where the very talented New Orleans Jazz Vipers were playing. Outstanding.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
I love New Orleans
I really, really, do. It is arguably my favorite place on Earth. Why? Tough to put in to words... There is no place that is like it, you see things there - around every corner - that you just don't see anywhere else, and it is probably the only place in the world that, when you mention it to people, they immediately smile. The Life Guzilla has been fortunate and blessed with a lot of travel, and no place has the magic of New Orleans. To say it's my "happy place" underutilizes and misuses both "happy" and "place"... It is pure magic, in a world that desperately needs it and yet is trying to stamp it out.
One of The Wife's favorite actresses, the comedic genius Jennifer Coolidge, put it exceptionally well in a "60 Second Interview" with the Times-Picayune's (and acquaintance) Chris Rose:
Without making references to food or music, describe the magic of New Orleans.
It's the only city I've ever been to that has its own feeling, its own ambiance. It has its own eeriness. Sometimes I'll go into the park and this mist comes out of nowhere over the park and I feel like a vampire family could just appear out of nowhere and join me.
Like tonight: The wind is blowing and the mist is coming. I feel like anything could happen, like you could sprout wings in a second and just fly away. When I lived in New York in the '80s, it was such an exciting time and you never knew where the night could take you and I feel like this town is like that times 100.
This photo was taken at approximately 4:00am as Gano & I were wandering the French Quarter. And the Vieux Carré had exactly that mist and that feeling and it stopped us both in our tracks. We both fiddled with the camera for about 15 minutes trying, and failing, to capture that same ephemeral magic. It has to be experienced to be believed...
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Friday, February 01, 2008
'My Mama Said...'
Khawuleza!
One of our favorite Hugh Masekela songs. The song is about when they used to sell illegal booze in the shantytowns of South Africa and they would throw pebbles on the corrugated iron roofs and yell, "Khawuleza, Momma!" to let everyone know the police were coming.
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