Tag Archives: new orleans

it is hard to pin down the origin of this song. from my research, my guess as i begin this is the tune is at least 300 years old. maybe older. the lyrics are american writ. 200 years old themselves. ...

many believe this is the first rock-n-roll song. recorded less than one block away from the (in)famous congo square in new orleans in 1947, it sounds like nothing the world was listening to at the time. about congo square; it ...

it is american craft beer week, and i am drinking T U R B O D O G. i cannot afford it, but in support of good beer, and getting sick of olde english, i have no choice. which leads ...

i missed it again. yesterday was national beer day! i just set a calendar reminder so i don’t forget next year. second year in a row, too. at least i know i’m not missing american craft beer week! until then, ...

all i have to write is that i am about to ruin a couple of “christian” businesses. i won’t mention their names. they don’t yet know my plan unless they are reading this. which they aren’t. “christian?” i have never ...

i am no less of a man to profess that i cannot listen to this song and not sob. chris was was in freaking france when he wrote this but what he was seeing on the television was too much ...

or as we call them on bikerMetric: noobs. remember, this is the most ironic biker blog in the world. if my amazing powers of addition are correct, since the last noobs post at the beginning of the year we’ve had ...

february is the coldest month of the year but last week it was 75 degrees in new orleans. i mention this and show cemetery pix from two locations near my home because i’m feeling simultaneously reverent while wanting to stick ...

once, i took a train from the wind to the crescent. it was called “the city of new orleans.” it was 1996. the farther south we went, the blacker the travelers became. having spent most of my life in the ...

drove 1,100 miles in 48 hours. that isn’t much if you’re a big rig driver, but when you spend 24 hours in new orleans in the middle, well, yeah. been up over 40 hours now now now… bought a gorgeous ...