I am going to New Orleans!

cafe du monde, you mean? ;-)

From my hotel room window. It's tough to fall asleep with Bobby Lee lookin' in atcha like that.

yes i am speaking about new orleans in the present tense.

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in the old days, buildings were made to last!

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It wasn't my birthday, but thanks anyway!

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We waited in line for an hour to get into Mother's! While we were waiting, a man who called himself "Elvis" stopped by and serenaded us with "Falling In Love With You".

It was worth the wait. I was just thankful to be seated, and my friend chose to investigate his gumbo a bit more in depth.

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Now, it means parades in the community. A Social Aid & Pleasure Club hires a brass band or two and people follow them through the neighborhood for four hours, dancing and getting drunk and eating smoked sausage on whitebread. It's also used to refer to the dancing itself ("second-lining").

It's basically the best thing ever, and I'm sure there's gonna be one as soon as there are streets again.

Who all in this piece is going to Tape Op Con 2006?

This was most likely Randy Elvis aka Saints Elvis, who dances at Saints games and runs a bar downtown called The Corporation, where ILxors have karaoked happily.

I hadn't made any concrete plans yet, but I was thinking about it.

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damn

they say they're prepared

yeah fucking right.

I bet the Republicans are soooooo happy about this.

worrying about a potential disaster getting grossly politicized is a lesser worry right now.

may be evacuating tomorrow night to avoid traffic, unless Gustav decides to hit the Yucatan instead.

i'm holding out for a little while. projected paths don't really mean anything until the storms get into the gulf. not to say i'm not worried, but the chicken little feeling around the city is a little upsetting.

I feel the same way, but being stuck in 10 hours of traffic on the interstate really bites, especially with baby crying and dogs whining. The bummer is the closest place we can stay is like 9 hours away. Middle of the night, baby sleeping=much nicer evacuation.

good luck guys, hope it's a miss

One source says possible category 4 at landfall. I'm trying my best not be nervous, but having been displaced before, it's hard. And there is a part of me (and many others here) who are dying for an excuse to move away. Being broke in the middle of it makes it worse, because I want lots of wine and fancy cheese right now.

wow. the city is kind of panicking. and it's not really the government or media that are riling people up. I heard from several sources this afternoon that there was a mandatory evacuation in effect in orleans and that anyone not out of the city by 6pm tomorrow was going to get picked up by the national guard and bussed out of here. then i go and watch the news and the anchors and public officials are all calmly detailing plans that could possibly be put into effect over the next few days. I think these are weird signs of some kind of mass scale persecution complex. People are convinced that they're going to get kicked out of town and are in outrage about it.

Heading out in less than 3 days, will be there for a long weekend. Got a couple of things already in the plan. Anyone around and wanna grab a drink at some point?

Where did Adam go? He is the only recent New Orleans-based poster I know about. At least from the New Orleans Brass band thread over on ILM that Jordan started.

Jordan (from Wisconsin not Jordan S.) goes there alot. Have you looked at Offbeat (either the magazine or online)?

adam's still there (i crashed at his place last time i was in town). if i was going this weekend i would see rebirth at tip's on friday and see if there's a second line on sunday.

I wanted to be in New Orleans this weekend for the Ponderosa Stomp. Obscure old-school r'n'b and rock and more artists at the House of Blues Friday and Saturday night, and special panel discussions and interviews with them (by a who's who of music critics and historians) during the day. It used to take place between Jazzfest weekends but they moved it.

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