gonna give it another try thanks to j.c.

well ima try again. here goes.

all saints day

so my pal miss anna ross and her daughter heather where at the duval family tomb today with miss tee eva.

i havent been there since '95.

they have added some folks to the tomb since than.

here are some pic's

im back

thinking about kickstarting the beast . like my last bike the norton 750.

gonna spray a little either in the carb and hope the kick start pedal doesnt break my ankle on the blowback.

the p.t.s.d. beast is safely in the cage. locks are tight and here's a toast to his un-houdini skills.

looking forward to getting this bad boy back to normal.

sorry for the lapse yall.

geauxjira explaned

Geauxjira

Ladies and Gentlemen, with the oil leak now a month old, here is Geauxjira. Geauxjira is a brief homage to some famous scenes in Ishiro Honda's movie Gojira (1954), better known in English as Godzilla. Whereas Godzilla was created from nuclear explosions, Geauxjira is a giant crawfish spawned by leaking crude oil. On April 21st, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana. Eleven people perished in the explosion. As we made our movie, thousands of barrels of oil leaked every day on the Gulf of Mexico's floor, causing the biggest environmental disaster in our lifetime. Moreover, we're terrified about the ramifications the oil will have on our economy and lives. In making a parody there is a danger of giving the impression that we find this calamity to be funny. In fact, the opposite is true. We're angry and frightened about the uncertain impact of this disaster. Here is the movie.

geauxgira

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xehMW4-EOJ4

BOO HAPPY HALOWEEN

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Wow man , My bad but tonight was the best trick or treat so far on my front porch in Gentilly.

The "my  bad" part comes from I just wouldn't have felt right taking pics  of the kids tonight.

The "best" part comes from this is the most kids I've seen post katrina..

It was a great night, me and my neighbor sat on our porches giving out candy to kids.

 Between down time we drank beers and talked about the Saints and the Hornets .

The kids were just being  kids and it just would have felt strange to make them a pictorial subject.

they were in the kid  zone.

two fire fighters , one cop , one u.p.s. guy, two hulks , two batmen , one bat girl , several dracs, lots of princesses' , and lots of even cooler homemade costumes.

The best part was when me and my neighbor were  talking about how we had bought too much candy and all of the sudden  we looked up and the Gentilly Social Aid and Candy Club came marching up the street.

Twenty little kids all in coustume with three adults hit our porches as if on cue to aleave our "oh we bought to much candy" worries.

after they passed me and my neighb said good night and   good luck to dem Hornets.

it was a perfect Gentilly night.

FREAKIN' AWESOME

ONLY THING MISSING IS HOGAN.

 GREAT LOGO GUYS.

EVEN MORE GENTILLY WILDLIFE

The Geckos are back !

They live under the flag on my front porch in the summer and come out to eat the hot weather bugs at night.

I wanted to take a picture of them under the flag but  I figured I had all ready bothered them enough seeing how they don't like light and I was using a flash.

So here a some pics of the alpha gecko summing up the bug harvest for tonight.

click on the pics for close-ups.

THANKS CLAY

HAVE A BANANA HANNAH

"Everybody eats when they come to my house."

I love that old song and all things Fats Waller

Anyway after Katrina everything in my yard died.

The bananas just sort of took a break. They are back.

 The  Old Avocado had just made it's first crop (they take about seven years from seed to fruit). The New Avocado is doing nicely as are the New Citrus.

I tried some Tiny Eggplants this year for the first time and they are quit yummy.

 As allways Click on the pics if you wanna see some sub-tropical porn close up.

P.S.  I should mention that these  bananas get about half the size of the ones you see in the store and have a banana /strawberry / and citrus flavor.

They take a year and a half to mature so if we get a hard freeze there are no bananas that next fall. 

A lot of people down here hate bananas in their land scape because they can take over your yard.

The trick is to have a place to compost the old trees after they make fruit as they only make fruit once. Also have a place to compost the guys that get killed in the freeze.

The other trick is to just mow any tiny shoots you don't want just like grass.

I hear the same is true of bamboo.

As long as you got a spot in your yard to compost your good plus you dont have to buy potting soil after a year or two of composting.

MORE GENTILLY WILDLIFE

The Wild Parrots Of Gentilly Have Finally Returned.

I Missed You Guys and Gals.

Sorry The First Pic In The Wisteria Didn't Come Out Better.

As Allways Click On The Pics.

P.J. Brown and Big Baby Davis are gonna get a ring

Hornets didn't get there this year.

So root for the celtics this year yall.

Hail the Big Mon

This post goes out to Ashley Morris.

I never met the man but his blog was a big part of my post Katrina therapy.

right after the storm he dogged gentilly as a whole and i wrote him about the diversity of our neighborhood.

he digested the info and changed his mind.

the cat was a thinker and  a man.

I sent him these pics  many  months ago of  us  cooks making hogshead cheese at work on the sly because I knew he would like them and we are'nt supposed  to show things that are for cook's consumption only.

I figured he would like to see the inner workings of how cooks and chefs amuse them selves.

i hope all who were touched by ash will think of his wife and his kids and at least by a t-shirt or hit the paypal fund for his fam.

thats all i could afford to do but at least it adds up.

god speed prof.

as allways. click on the pics for some swineish  biggness yall

SHORT STOP

So back in the day in the 70's we used to skip out  from school and smoke weed and prowl for munchies.

Back than the high schools were segregated by sex to dodge the integration laws.

The fact that our high school was all boys made skipping out pretty easy.

The men in charge looked the other way while tetestorone left the building

To this day i  still kid my little brother for going to Grace King i.e. a girls school.

One of our favorite skip out joints was the Short Stop on  the corner of Airline and "Transcon".

They had the  sloppyest  roastbeef  plus 

"swimps" po-boys that were over flowing with "swimps" on the butcher paper.

A Cheech and Chong munchie wet dream.

They were all  drenched in blue plate mayo like a bunny mathews cartoon in the old figaro paper.

So now  i'm middle aged i'm tooling down airline to get some cheap gas at sams club and lo and behold.

the old short stop has moved and they have striped it's skin to reveal an even older joint with signs of cabins and package booze.

i thought i was old school only to learn there was an older school.

anybody with info on this joints earlier life please write about it.

included in the pics are the new short stop a block down the street.

enjoy and click on the pics if you want to see bigger images

 

GENTILLY WILD LIFE

Gentilly wildlife in my front and back yard.

click the pics for a close up view.

OUR HOUSE IS A VERY VERY NICE HOUSE

HAPPY MUTHAS DAY YALL.

PEACE  OUT PEEPS.

CLICK ON THE SNAPS AND BLOW THEM UP  FOR  FULL PLEASURE.

YA HEARD?