So it turns out that New Orleans has a pub crawl (not that it needs one). This particular street has law firms at either end, with seven bars in between. You pick up a card at Fleesum & Tick, get a square checked off when you have a cocktail at each bar, present the filled-out card at Cheatham, Goode Esq., and you get a shirt commemorating your completion of the Toulouse Law Trek.
Swiss: Nice short story, bro.
Me: All stories about Toulouse-Lautrec are, by definition, short stories.
Swiss: Still, I’m impressed.
Me: Actually, you’re post-impressed.
Swiss:
The Audubon Aquarium is on the outskirts of the French Quarter in New Orleans. The last time I visited, they had spent a considerable amount of money to build a habitat for and import a number of penguins. This was a bit out of character for an institution that specializes in critters from the Gulf of ‘Merica and the Caribbean.
I thought it would’ve been more appropriate for them to get some seabirds from the equatorial Pacific region. Could you imagine the advertising campaign? Audubon Aquarium — come see our boobies!
Speaking of which, Mardi Gras this year coincides with the Orient’s Lunar New Year. Meaning this is your chance to get that cute Asian chick you know to learn some local traditions, but with a multi-cultural twist. Call it Tit for Tết!
I won’t be in NOLA for Carnival season (which starts on 12th Night and ends with Mardi Gras). And, frankly, I’m a little too old to be asking twenty-something gals to “earn” some beads. I’m not too old to keep my head on a swivel in case some nubile thing wants to, uh, display out of season.
No, a good chunk of my time will be spent in the type of place for which the Crescent City has become famous:
I’ve always made it out, but it usually takes me hours.
There’s another type of establishment that NOLA is justifiably famous for, and I *will* be at several of them during the first week of March. The wife and I will hit some old favorites like Commander’s Palace, I’ll introduce her to a neighborhood joint she’s never tried in Clancy’s, and we’ll dine at a couple of “new to us” restaurants in Gautreau’s and Brigtsen’s. My birthday is at the end of the week we’ll be spending in the city, and I’ve already planned on lunch at Galatoire’s (crabmeat au gratin and a big, in-your-face Chardonnay) and dinner at Doris Metropolitan, as decadent an old-world steakhouse as exists on the continent.
We’ll also make time for lunch at the quirky Casamento’s (serving seafood to the locals — only during oyster season — for 107 years and counting. Bring cash, since no credit cards are accepted). No, we won’t drink bad coffee at Cafe du Monde or eat overpriced bivalves at Acme. But we will take an afternoon to enjoy the National World War II Museum. I try to go at least once a year, and the traveling exhibits alone are worth it.
When I get back home, I should probably tape one of these to my refrigerator.
I should, but I won’t.
Let us know your favorite N’Awlins places in the comments. And (assuming my liver holds) we’ll see you soon!
Meaning this is your chance to get that cute Asian chick you know to learn some local traditions, but with a multi-cultural twist.
She’s a Chinese spy who isn’t good at her job because she’s interested in a nobody like me? I guess crazier things have happened.
OBE: Sorry about your step-dad.
But oddly with a bit of horse face for some unknown reason.
OBE – condolences as well.
Thanks all. The call to the kids was rough
Sorry to hear it, OBE.
And here I thought she was pretty cute for an Asian gal.
Sorry for your loss OBE.
horse face
https://www.echineselearning.com/blog/chinese-tongue-twister-mom-rides-a-horse.html
Id like to recount my time in New Orleans…but all I remember was passing out, waking up on a bench with a cop kicking me and a note in my back pocket.
Gotta love your fellow airmen leaving you.
Other than that? City was trash cause it was a few months after Katrina
City was trash a few months before Katrina.
I had wanted to see it at one point. After the coverage from Katrina I crossed it off my list of places I cared to visit.
My mom went there for the R party party in 88 and had some stories. I’m sure she had a great time, all the women in the women’s group were trying to bag Sen Simms and the primary contenders for gov. More than one were successful.
Drinking a Hurricane on a balcony on Bourbon St. while Murray Rothbard was trying to pick up the woman I was with. (no fib.)
That’s… amazing.
You missed 15-20″ of snow. I’m sure you are disappointed.
Dec. 1983, during a meeting of the Libertarian National Committee. You might not think it, but Murray was a bit of a womanizer.
This has to be a lie as there are no libertarian women.
It’s known.
Lol. Checkmate.
Obviously, you’ve never been to an LP national convention. There’s one pretty well founded rumor of a couple fucking after hours on the podium at the ’91 convention.
I may as well cap off this story. The fucking couple didn’t spread the story, but it was spread by – get this – a delegate who didn’t have a room who was sleeping under the podium! In the dark, he couldn’t identify the couple, but he heard them going at it on the floor above his head!
A final observation on “libertarian women.” Imagine, if you will, what the wife of Larry Flynt’s (Hustler Magazine) chief lieutenant would look like. Well, she was an LP activist: I had dinner, drinks, and dances with her at various libertarian conventions and events over a 35 year period. Been away from the Party for 15 years, so maybe times have changed.
Creech was fucking his girlfriend on the podium at the LP national convention?
Man knows not his time.
And there never is enough of it.
My condolences.
Deanie’s Seafood Not in the quarter, but unpretentious, good food. Crab Au Gratin. You will thank me later.
Parkway Bakery for the James Brown Po’ Boy
Willy Mae’s Fried Chicken
Red Fish Grill on Bourbon Street. Their shrimp and grits were good.
* I still haven’t convinced my step-sister that grits can be good with enough cheese.
My condolences, OBE.
Same here, OBE.
Mothers was worthwhile, despite being on the tourist track.
I went to NOLA a week after Mardi Gras, and I dont think anyone knew that the party was over.
Honestly, I dont think anyone in that town knows what the word “no” means.
OBE- genuinely sorry for your loss. I’m old enough and callous enough to say “thankfully he died at home”.
I learned it here- “A sorrow shared is halved; a joy shared is doubled”.
“We laugh together, we grieve alone”
We’re here in any event, OBE
Last year I was in New Orleans just before that guy drove his pickup into the crowd on Bourbon Street. This year I was in Puerto Vallarta shortly before all hell broke loose. I can assure you it’s just a coincidence. But just in case, you might want to stay away from Italy this summer.
You are definitely on A List at this point.
Go to Bourbon Street on a random weekday in November when it’s kind of chilly out. It’s just kind of depressing even if you’re a drunk.
I was there during the day once on a drive to Texas from Florida. Also pretty depressing. Didn’t have much time, but it’s laughable to me that every three store fronts is a shitty gift shop. The ‘restaurant’ we stopped at charged like $20 back in 2012 for a shitty microwaved faux-cajun meal.
I’m sure there ARE good restaurants in the area that are worth the reputation. The place looked nice. Don’t know the name, but the food was pretty fucking weak on top of the price. More of a tourist trap.
I would not be looking for a meal anywhere on Bourbon. Literally anywhere else.
We managed to walk in and get a lunch table at Commander’s Palace. On the tourist route, but amazing.
Commanders Palace would be an exception to the rule of avoiding touristy places.
We didn’t go to Commander’s Palace because I was told by the internet I needed a suit coat and a tie.
There was a place we tried to get into that wouldn’t because of a dress code. As I said, we just were driving through and decided to stop in. Don’t know which place it was.
But where we ended up definitely sucked.
I got away with jeans and a nice shirt. But it was lunch.
I refuse to wear a tie.
I refuse to wear a tie/noose.
The closest I ever got to NO was Ft Polk, Spring of ’57
Damn, that’s nearly 70 years ago. We ate in the mess hall, 2 choices, take it or leave it.
We trod the same sand nearly 50 years apart.
Mess hall for us was in a machine shed with mosquito screen on the sides, reminded me of something from MASH.
Pretty sure I slept in the same barracks 40 years later after a JRTC rotation. All I remember was being able to a hot shower and prednisone for poison ivy/sumac exposure.
We were in the wooden WW2 barracks but still had all the comforts/conveniences of the era.
I’ve never been to New Orleans, but I’ve been through the airport several times on work trips to places near NOLA.
Every time, it took like 45 minutes for the luggage to reach the carousel, there would be one carousel number listed on the board for my flight, they would announce a different carousel over the intercom, and the luggage would show up on a third carousel.
I had a friend who was a bartender in NOLA for a while and we kept meaning to go visit him, but he’s dead now so we can’t do that.
New Orleans is not my kind of town. I hope you enjoy but I would be fine never going back.
New Orleans is exactly my kind of town except for the heat and humidity.
I haven’t had a good Fuentes rant in a while, but this won’t be much about him besides to say that the right wing media sphere is so polluted that he’s not even close to begin the most loathsome let alone fake to me (if you buy that he’s a closeted gay or fed or just using bots to amplify influence).
This is a story about a e-girl. A right wing “e-girl” who pretended to be looking to become a trad wife while claiming to be virginal (I know some guys in Dubai who will pay a pretty penny for that one without the worry about all this nonsense, so bad career choice). She worked for a supposed conservative or right wing media host named Elijah Schaffer who is married with kids and also pushes “traditional” values, but she was engaged to another man. A man she refused to sleep with until after they married. She made him wait.
Schaffer had been fired by The Blaze and ended up on Rumble because of two accusations of sexual misconduct before going all in on trad bullshit.
Can you guess how this one played out?
To circle back to Fuentes for a brief moment, I can understand why if he isn’t a virgin he keeps it underwraps. He’s not an idiot by any stretch and it’s a real muddy, dirty business he’s in. Maybe he is a virgin because he (rightfully) knows there’s very few people he’s going to interact with that he can trust. Even fewer than a normal person, I mean.
Yianapolis is the guy who broke the news on this nonsense and at least this story alleges it’s to get to Fuentes. I’d have to think if there was real dirt on him on a personal level we’d have it by now. I really think he’s probably a virgin. Maybe gay I don’t know, but hasn’t acted on it. I say straight.
Moral of the story is right wing media has become a genuine clown show. These frat boys and girls come out of college with little more of an idea of what to do than the left wingers with gender study degrees. They think they can play a part because they are moderately attractive and they’re really smart people and then they get exposed. The end.
We need to bring back Rush Limbaugh’s corpse at this point to rally the right. No more of these young dopey grifters. I mean, sure, he was on his radio show calling for harsh three strike laws for blacks for drugs laws while being high on illegally obtained oxy, and he was married four times while preaching traditional family values, but he was…I don’t know where I was going with this, but you know, it’s kind of a mess.
There is a small subset of “conservative” commentators who were a different type than the frat boy/girl former actress/actor types. That would be the basement dweller of which Fuentes is an example.
In the above, I don’t know if the guy mentioned has any real affiliation with Fuentes. There’s a general trend on the ignorant yet ever smug left of labeling everyone and anyone a groyper now especially if there’s a scandal. And there’s a pretty big network of “conservative” types out there now online so yea there’s going to be scandal regardless. So they latch onto these guys while being unable to really take down their target, paint them as the pied pipers etc.
Talking heads and empty skulls.
RIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Carradine
That poor family.
I’ve been to both Brennan’s and Antoine’s. Brennan’s is where I found the nectar of the gods, Hollandaise sauce. Antoine’s was where I found something that sounds gross, but I loved it, which was this little hard-bread cracker stuffed under a filet to soak up the juice. That was good. And of course, Cafe du Monde, but that’s a cliche.
Not béarnaise?
Haven’t been to NO, but I was once brought some CDM pralines. Soooo sugary.
They were both good, but I haven’t been to that town since the Great Street Washing of ’05.
I’ve been to NO three times for our ERP software vendors annual shindig – they like having it in NO. And Vegas. A 5 day junket spent roaming around the gigantic convention center. The WWII museum is walking distance from the Convention center so it’s easy to play hooky for a few hours and pay it a visit. I’ve had some good meals there, one place I distinctly recall featured a chef that used a blow torch in his preparation. I had a Hurricane at Pat Obrien’s just to get the glass to take home. I like NO, it’s a fun place to visit.
We haven’t been back to Nola in 10 years, but we always stayed here
https://parkviewguesthouse.com/
Seems they’ve gone a little upscale and added a hipster bar. When we were going, the reception closed at 6 or 8 and you were on your own. Self serve snacks in the dining room and sherry in the front parlor. Home cooked buffet in the morning.
Highly recommend Brigtsens. Went twice to Jacomos and loved that too but busier and not as upscale. Had good eating from some lady that set up a table in front of the Maple Leaf (got to see and hear Rebirth live).
The nature museum in the CBD was fun, particularly the butterfly room.
One year we were walking though Loyola and there was a giveaway of Louisiana satsumas. Never had any quite as good. So good we’d order a bushel box by mail yearly until the farm stopped doing it.
I particularly enjoyed being able to visit two locations. New Orleans battlefield and being able grasp what the British faced advancing on dug in Americans. Second was the spot where Homer Plessy was arrested, just as much of an intentional troublemaker as many other Americans. He may have lost the legal fight, but he was right then and right now.
The last time we we were there we had a car and were driving around. Lots of storm damage still from Katrina (ten years at that time) and search markings still visible. Saw one that was from my former NG battalion (or maybe it was our Inter battalion, but same regiment). Made me proud.
The very first time we went to Nola, the cab driver after finding out it was our first time asked us how come it took so long for us to come back. It’s one of a handful of places where I’ve felt at home.
LA Confidential was set 44 years before. Similar movie today would be set in 1981. wtf?
Aside from myself do we have any other Louisiana Glibs? I vaguely thought there were a couple of others. Most native Louisianians are not big fans of the city. The culture is different.
I am not a big fan of New Orleans (pray for another Katrina) but in fairness other big cities have the same pluses and minuses. New Orleans just seems to have them magnified a bit.
It’s a hot and fetid Goddamn cesspool.
It’s all just so silly. Wassup Glibs?
🤪❄️🖕
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_h7hcK6pFs
AI at its finest. 🤣😂🎶🎶
My shoulder hurts.
Apply alcohol. 🥃
I can’t, I have to get blood drawn for labs, then buy food.
And if I do so afterwards, I’ll be intoxicated at work. Which risks my job. Without the job, I can’t afford treatment for the pain.
I’m hoping my doctor on Friday can start the process of fixing this.
Are we still on for today or have anonymous sources provided a new schedule?
Roat and Sean are having a tryst?
ROAT isn’t that lucky.
Wait until dark.
We didn’t have as much snow as predicted (maybe eight inches) and the wind is dying down.
We got less snow than predicted as well, yet more snow to open up March.
Good morning, Sean, Suthen, U, Roat, and Ted’S.!
I have to leave early this morning to pick up coffee and carbs for an all-day meeting taking place at my office. 😒
There cannot possibly be a reason for an all-day meeting.
Even worse, some of them came in from out of town last night and met for dinner.
My boss was not thrilled.
In the interest of full disclosure, the meeting may not, in fact, last until 5:00 p.m. I think officially it’s scheduled until 3:00, but I’m guessing they stick around just long enough to partake of (and justify the cost of) all the box lunches I ordered for them. 🙄
Box lunches should be one sandwich of plain bread, one slice bologna, one slice american cheese, and one indvidual packet each of mayo and mustard. Add in one small apple, and one boxed milk.
/nostalgia
And the bread should be white bread – the completely square kind.
Exactly.
suh’ fam
whats goody
/hey from West Virginia
Any snow there?
We were scheduled for a dollop right about now but I don’t see anything in the air.
Hello from East Virginia.
Some flakes lazily falling here. 11° 🥶
Yeah. Somehow the cold caught me by surprise.
Oh, and I understand stopping flights ’cause noise, but the refusals of the bus drivers to stick around was what pinged my union detector.
Be sure to fill up your gas tank while you’re there.
Too bad this hasn’t passed yet:
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/02/23/west-virginia-bill-would-authorize-state-to-sell-machine-guns-to-residents-n1231658
GM 🙂
Good morning! I am starting work late, as I have to stay late. I get a cup of coffee and some relaxation for once.
GM from cold-ass Florida.
I thought I was getting stuck somewhere nice…
What’s wrong with being stuck with Brett L.?