The Wyfe Plays The Henry Miller Theatre

Henry Miller Theatre

SS Surrender the Booty

Just awesome... TJ sent me a note saying he needed another of my "Surrender the Booty" Jazz Fest business cards, which depict our Jazz Fest flag & my contact details with my title "Swashbuckler." As TJ wrote:

OK Guzilla...

I'm going to need another Surrender the Booty business card.

My little brother has a school project tomorrow... needed to build a styrofoam sailboat for a race in science class. I added a nice little (and inappropriate for 3rd grade) touch. For aesthetics, keeping er' straight, and general debauchery of a minor.

Well done... Teach the children well.

Another Swashbuckler

and on the back of his flag, this young genius refers to himself also as a "Swashbuckler."

Well done, and smooth sailing... RAMMING SPEED!

Meats Cheeses & Fruit Plate Dinner!

West Side Highway Caddy

with Kenny Loggins' "This Is It" (1979) playing - a nice New York moment.

Hitchhicking

The Wyfe picked me up. In these tough economic times, I am all about free transportation. Party bus...

Party Bus ride home!

Ben Jones Bachelor Party

Retzler, Schroth, Zottola... Good afternoon times with guys I see far too rarely. Or just enough. Mayhem. Thankfully they're leaving fot the Mets game.

Brother Joscephus & the Love Revolution Orchestra

"A 12-piece feel good explosion of Love, Righteousness & New Orleans Soul."

Maru the Cat

saw this in the current issue of Wired magazine. as they correctly point out, the internet is filled with cat videos. "But this is a Japanese cat video."

One for the Spotted Cat

According to a NY Times.com blog entry today, one of our favorite New Orleans bars is no longer... A tragedy as the Spotted Cat played host to some of our favorite moments ("I _____ love you guys! No, it's true! I _____ love them and I should tell them!" my monkey yelled at the New Orleans Jazz Vipers and then at the entire crowd, instantly winning the entire room over... After a few purple voodoos at Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop. Gano emotionally enjoying his request of the Vipers to play "Sleepytime Down South.")

We have seen the Vipers countless times, saw Glen David Andrews join them for one of my all-time favorite versions of St. James Infirmary ("When I die, put my cell phone on vibrate... So my ex-wife thinks I'm still alive.") and even danced alongside Laurence Fishburne there this year.

One for the Spotted Cat...

Fajita Night!

Texas Smurfs

While The Wyfe & I had a low-key weekend of poolside (rainy) lounging, my brother & his friend ran a costume offroad race dressed as Smurfs. Awesome.

Sushi Al Fresco

dinner on our roof

Needham Digital Media Conference

2nd Ave Street Fair

RIP - Koko Taylor

Inspiring

Ellen DeGeneres speaks to the graduating "Katrina class" at Tulane University.  Well done...

Colbert to Serve As Guest Editor of Newsweek

Comedic hero Stephen Colbert will be the first guest editor in the magazine's 76 year history.  Issue on shelves June 8th!

And here is an excerpt from a commencement speech he just made:

Stephen Colbert, comedian, Medical University of South Carolina: "Traditionally, commencement speakers dole out advice on life and careers to students. But I've made my career as an aggressively ignorant blowhard with a dismissive attitude toward knowledge in general and to science in particular. So, clearly I have no business in giving you any advice. ... Whenever I honestly, sincerely give young people advice ... the most common thing I say is go make mistakes. The best thing I ever did was to give myself permission to be wrong. I can't really give you that advice. It's irresponsible for me to tell graduates of a medical college to go out and make as many mistakes as you can."

'Whale Meat' Truck'

More fountain!

Cutaway Chair Sculpture

On the West Side waterfront of Manhattan

Washington Square Fountain

I do love this town

LSU Reunion

on a floating pier in the Hudson w/ live music & 2,000 lbs of crawfish

Word.

So true... Fangin' ain't easy. But it's a livin'... Eternally.

'Seahorses... I love dem.'

"Seahorses... 4 eva."

Filming a movie

Blocked 5th ave. Off.  I was walking down the street, post U. Club roast... When I stumbled upon a movie shoot.

Movie is a live-action version of "Fantasia."  Saw a truck drag Nicolas Cage down 5th avenue in reverse, in a Pinto.  Thrice.

Allegedly, and more importantly, the movie also features Monica Bellucci.  

It will be called "The Sorceror's Apprentice."  And has a $200mm budget.

Gano Wounds Arm(s)

Got an email from Gano entitled "Memorial Day my ass..." with this photo attached. Seems he has a hairline fracture near his left elbow and mangled / sprained / pulled the muscles in his right forearm by going over the handlebars of his bike. And is in a constant amount of significant pain.

Sadly, this is not up for Tommy consideration as he wounded himself trying not to crash in to Chloe. While mountain biking. Unfortunately, far too noble a cause to be considered. (not to mention that it was during exercise.)

But keep on manglin'!

...and STILL Champion!

had an email back & forth with Sugarpants, thereby inadvertently convening a quorum of The Tommy Award Nominating Committee, and he is ready to pronounce me the 2009 Winner for burning my paw in a bar stunt gone awry. (!!!)

I urged him to hold off, as there is still a lot of 2009 left but, as he wrote, ""Fire, booze, music, and women. And a slightly-torched paw. I mean......"

I guess, when he puts it that way... it really does have it all, doesn't it? I happen to think it's a new gold standard in Tommy-ism... (Made The Admiral weep with laughter. Repeatedly.)

Breakfast at the Daily Treat

kicking it suburban style. Happy Birthday Brother John!

Gramercy Neighborhood Associates

Block party!

OpenTable IPO Lunch

At the St. Regis' Versailles Room, thanks to JD.

Mark Twain

Was thinking about him today and would like everyone to spare a thought for him, as he is a primary personal hero of mine.  A new book of previously unpublished writings was recently released called "Who Is Mark Twain?" and so it set me wondering.  As the publisher Robert Miller correctly observed, "Twain's the grandfather of Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and Steve Martin.  He has such a dry subversive wit that you feel like he's invented modern humor."

So true...  He also lived in Hartford - his house is The Best thing in Hartford (although it has fallen on hard times.  I just tried to link to it and the web site was, disconcertingly, in disarray.) and he was a member of the Players Club in New York, as I am now.  (Twain was kicked out of the Players for debts owed but was able to talk his way back in and even have his debts forgiven.  They are in possession of his card table.)

Here's to Mark Twain.

JOAN WINS!

Wow... So well done... Joan won the Celebrity Apprentice & The Wyfe and I could not be happier. We were pulling for her all season and are so proud. The Wyfe was on the edge of the couch yelling at the TV, "Yay Joan! Yay Joan!"

Well done, sweetie... Good triumphed over evil and you have more energy at 75 than most teenagers.

Congratulations!

Dinner at Veselka

After a lovely LONG walk around the city

'Grazie Mamma'!'

Happy Mother's Day!

Bandshell in Use!

A beautiful sunny day in Central Park.

Evel Thoughts

I was thinking today...  And would like to remind those who have looked askance at my singed paw that (tertiary personal hero) Evel Knievel is in the Guinness Book of World Records for "Most Broken Bones"...  and was also The Greatest Daredevil of All Time.  

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs...

The Mighty Gatorpants

No net...

Jackson Square

Walked The Admiral around New Orleans, as this was his first time.

Voices of the Wetlands All-Stars

So much talent on one stage. Dr. John, Anders Osborne, Tab Benoit, Cyril Neville & Big Chief Monk Boudreaux

Admiral on Deck!

Dawn in New Orleans.

Late night @ dba

Little Freddie King.  Fabulous blues guitarist.

As his web site says:

One of the last great country blues players, Little Freddie King...lives the blues. He stays in a run-down apartment, in a deteriorating neighborhood, with a domineering wife. He rides a rickety bicycle which he calls his "two wheel cadillac" several miles to and from a downtown garage, where he rebuilds alternators. He is tormented by ulcers and headaches, but playing his cheap pawn shop guitars always makes him feel a little better at the end of the day."  Jeff Hannusch (Offbeat Magazine)

'Wanted Dead Or Alive'

Jovi. Jazz Fest.

John Mayall

A legend.

Bobby Lounge

Wow!!!!  Amusing lyrics and rocking piano...  "He gets a little jumpy, he's got a spider monkey."

New Orleans ID

Wow...  Sugarpants' friends got their wallets stolen and received "less than convincing" paper ID's from the NOPD.

Bonerama

Playing "When The Levee Breaks." wow. "mean old levee, taught me to weep & moan..."

Zydepunks @ Saturn Bar

Yes.  Watching them from the balcony before it was time to go...

We're here

"I wouldn't go to the Saturn Bar if you paid me." - New Orleans native J. Crosby.

Ladies.... Take notice...

Sugarpants is in town...