Checking the headlines Monday, Apr 7 2008

Hello David Vitter, I hear you may take the fifth today. That’s probably not a bad idea. Anytime you get elected on the “family values” platform and end up with your hand in a whore’s panties then it might be best to say nothing. Hopefully, since you have no backbone to resign, that’s the amount of votes you will get in 2010….Nothing.

Ray Nagin is in China. Hopefully, he will run his big fat supid mouth and they will arrest him. Put his lame ass in a Chinese Jail for about, oh two years I think would work for the citizens back on the ground in New Orleans. Could we be that lucky?

The Hoarding house is gone. If you were not paying attention, a local family (or loco) has been living in a house on Magazine St. that should have been demolished years ago. The entire family of three has mental issues. The brother hoards among other things. That basically means that he collects crap and piles it to the roof. Well after much hand wringing and bawling, the city finally tore that sucker down. It was frankly disgusting and should have been ripped down years ago. Now the peeps who think they know all the answers and can save anyone from their problems, are moaning and groaning about the retards house being crumbled. I guarantee you these are the same nut cases screaming about the projects needed to stay as they were. This family has been saved from themselves, everyone should be happy for them.

Speaking of the projects, one of the most beautiful areas in the city right now is where the St. Bernard projects once stood. That’s right, once stood. The reason it’s so beautiful over there now is that there is nothing left of the projects but rubble. Nothing but broken up concrete. I don’t think I’ve seen a better looking lot in many many years.

I’m not a “conservative” other than the fiscal type. Even though I run a talk radio station, I think the gubberment should keep it’s nose out of peeps biz usually. With Charlton Heston dying over the weekend, I think he gets a bullshit rap because of his NRA wackiness. Which I understand but I don’t think it’s fair to only focus on his “from my cold dead hand” comment. I’m 40 now, a little over 6 months I guess. As a kid, Charlton Heston was the freaking bomb!!! If he was in a movie, it had to be seen. I still remember every Easter weekend watching him as Moses. The range of characters just blows my mind with this guy. And yeah, Soylent Green is still people.

Attention, attention. There has been a Ed Blakely sighting!!! The area’s recovery czar is running his mouth again too. Although I’ve generally agreed with everything he has said in the past, it drives me freakin up the wall when he backtracks after some group gets wind of what he’s got the say. Now he’s upset the black folks. Blakely basically said that blacks in power in New Orleans don’t want to listen or are unwilling to listen to their white counterparts. No shit. It’s been that way for 30 years Ed. Now if you’ll just stand by your statements instead of running from them.

I’ve not written much about the presidential election other than the debate issue. To wrap up this short, not too funny post, I’ll just say one thing. I’m pulling for Obama. He’s a great speaker, too liberal for me yes but I feel he’s what all of us as a country need. The reason? Along the same lines as what Ed Blakely said above. Obama will inspire Black America. Hopefully.

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Bye Al Monday, Mar 24 2008

Al Copeland, the creator of World Famous Popeye’s Fried Chicken died Easter Sunday after a fight with cancer.

I wanted to write because of my love for Popeyes. I still remember the first time I had some Popeyes chicken. It was in Baton Rouge, at the Popeyes (still there btw) near my mother’s house on Florida Blvd near Sharp Rd. This was a very long time ago. How long? Geez, the Popeye Olive and Whimpie characters were still being used by the company so I would guess sometime in the last 70’s was my first taste of Popeyes.

Its the spicey chicken that gets you to the store, but the sides and the biscuits are really what keeps you coming back. The red beans are some of the best red beans in the world, the biscuits are incredible and I’ve always loved the dirty rice as well.

I also loved Copeland’s the Restaurant. When I was getting ready to move to New Orleans for my first year of college, my family came down and helped find a place to live etc….I was 17. Lord what were they thinking letting me move to New Orleans at 17 years old!!!! Hahahahaha, anyway, we ate at a Copelands in Metairie after the apartment search and stuff. One of those things that just stays with you thru the years, may not remember until someone dies but the memories are in there.

The memories of Al Copeland are  part of what makes New Orleans one of the greatest cities in this country. Sure other cities have self made multi-millionaires. But the city today is frankly in mourning. We recognize our “special” citizens here, they help make us who we are as a people and they have helped make this city the gumbo that it is. When we lose a guy with the history & character (not all good by the way but we are all pretty imperfect) of Al Copeland, it gets us down. It reminds us that no one has forever and that tommorrow is not guaranteed.

Next time your craving some chicken, go to Popeyes and think of Al. Love that chicken man, love that chicken.

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Ray Nagin is really a Vagina Tuesday, Mar 11 2008

Yeah you right New Orleans! First he was Crazy Ray and the Chocolate Factory. Then he was “keeping” the New Orleans brand out there by supporting killing each other. Recently he was on a local TV morning show talking about how the Arayan nation was out to get him because the local newspaper had published a photo of him mistakenly pointing a AK-47 at Police Chief Warren Riley.

 Now the audio is hitting the media about Mayor Nagin’s comments at the opening of “The Vagina Monlogues”.

Our Mayor, C. Ray Nagin has let us all know that he is a “Vagina friendly Mayor”. Well that’s good to know Ray, but just remove the friendly from your comments and that’s the kind of Mayor you really are. Our Vagina Mayor, C Ray Nagin.

What about the groups that are not “vagina friendly”? What about the gay folks? I saw that Naked Boys Dancing is being performed at the Marigny Theatre. Are you a butt crack friendly Mayor as well Ray? C’mon man, look at this play. It’s solid. It’s been 5 years and New York still has a hole in the ground, or something to that effect. C’mon Ray, show your ass some more please.

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The Debate about the Debates Tuesday, Mar 11 2008

The citizens of New Orleans have been dealt some really bad hands in the last two and a half years. I am not going to go on and on about who or what has been dealing the cards. If your even remotely paying attention to this country and New Orleans, you already know the players.

One of the most disappointing “hands” that the city has received was from the Commission for Presidential Debates. The city of New Orleans attempted to secure one of three debates for the 2008 Presidental Election. The thinking was, what other city in this country was a better example of the issues and problems confronting this country in the years to come. Seriously, the ten to twenty year rebuilding this city is facing is a perfect backdrop for the issues confronting America. Or so we down in this part of the country thought. The Commission thought otherwise. They thought lil ole Oxford MS was a better place to hold the debate. The reason they gave was that New Orleans was “not ready” to handle a presidential debate. And Oxford, with it’s one stop light and 300 hotel rooms was? What fraud. Clearly the Commission didn’t want New Orleans as a host because of one Dubya. The Commission is/was suppose to be neutral when it came to political parties but clearly the agenda was ” let’s not make either party look bad”.

If you have ever read some of my past post on New Orleans Metroblogging, you know that I frankly dislike both the Republicans and the Democrats. They do nothing but divide the American people. They play games with peoples lives and with their heads. They are power hungry frauds who are not looking out for you or for me, they look out for their own power only. I do not care what party would “look bad” with a debate being held in this city, I care about the truth, something we never get from the so-called leaders.

I’m glad to report that Governor Jindal and Lt. Governor Landrieu must agree with me. They are attempting to get around the Debate Commission, going straight after McCain, Obama and Clinton to commit to a debate in New Orleans no matter what the Commission has set up to this point. I say finally and more power to them. We have seen these candidates come down here and talk some game already. McCain came thru recently to try and suck some money out of people’s pockets. Obama was here during the Louisiana Primary, lying to everyone about how he will rebuild New Orleans all by his lonesome. And I think both Bill and Hill have passed thru, sharing with us that if not for them, our recovery would never have started because they secured all the funds we need down here. What a crock of do-do.

Let’s hope that Bobby and Mitch are successful. I can’t wait to see McCain stumble and bumble his way through any discussion about New Orleans. I’d love to hear either Hill or Barrack tell the rest of the country about how much money their administrations would throw down New Orleans way.

And for the Commission on Presidential Debates, I’m not sure you noticed but in the first two months of 08, this city has hosted a Sugar Bowl that brought in 80,000 fans, a National Championship College Football game that drew around 125,000 people to the city, maybe the greatest NBA All-Star game weekend in the history of the NBA and oh yeah, I almost forgot, yet another Mardi Gras. But the city of New Orleans isn’t ready for a event like a Presidential Debate. A event that may draw 5000 people. Hmmmm, what was going on in Oxford MS for the first two months of the year?

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The Dog who saved me Tuesday, Mar 11 2008

I never really cared for so-called lap dogs. Ankle bitters or little mutts. Just not really my thing. I’ve had one cat for over 10 years now, she’s holding up well, I got another “street” cat right before Katrina. I do love dogs, but I’ve always been a big dog kinda guy. I never thought it fair to the dog to live in an apartment and have him/her trapped in a same space. I grew up as a child with dogs and a big yard. Trust me, dogs like big green yards.

 Everything changed after Katrina for all of us really. I was living in a shotgun over off Esplanade, getting ready to purchase my first home when she blew through. So everything changed.

In that first year afterward, life was not like a box of chocolates. Nothing here was sweet. Except Pepper.

Pepper was a Katrina dog. Abandonded and unloved. A friend found him during those desperate early days after evacuation. So he saved Pepper’s life.

Pepper came into my life because said friend health situation got worse and he just couldn’t take care of Pepper anymore. You hear about cancer and it’s effect on people, I paid attention but never really having someone close deal with it, I can now say I really had no clue. Anyway, so friend saves Pepper and in the cycle of life, Pepper saves me.

We all read about the effects pets can have on sick people, on the elderly or the lonely. Im neither sick, elderly or lonely but that damn lil dog sure as hell has saved and is saving my life.

Pepper is that kind of dog. He is 100% Pekingese. Yeah I know, not a real manly dog I guess but I don’t give a shit. If not for this dog, I would have given up. I would have just lost it long ago if I did not have this dog.

I can’t really tell you why I feel this way, but it’s deep in my gut that I know this dog was put in my care to not save him, I mean hell look at him, who wouldn’t take care of this dog? No he came my way to save me.

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