Horizontal Collaborators.
Back to our regular story:
Python Lady and I are back to our ongoing horizontal collaboration. It is good to be back in New Orleans. No one is unhappy. Oleander trees are in bloom. Today is the best day ever.
For the free subscribers, I am offering a sneak preview of what I am thinking about exploring behind the paywall in the near future.
Everything is open to fresh developments. I really do write these letters to you as the day goes along. IRL means in real life. Maybe something unexpectedly interesting will happen.
The wheels on the bus go ‘round and ‘round. I have no idea what that means.
I have had some things on my mind, as I usually do. I always have things to investigate on my peripatetic rounds. Let me check my notes on what is on my dance ticket. Hmmm. These are the topics I have in mind:
1.) The thumb wrestling club that meets in the neutral ground by the tire shop on Iberville Street.
2.) “Shake the Devil Off.” This is a documentary film about St. Augustine Church, in Tremé, down the street from where Ed lives.
3.) Ketchup.
4.) Eric Quarstrom, bartender extraordinaire.
5.) People’s Avenue. It is getting warmer. I should go to People’s Avenue to see where the tiny houses are going to be built. I want to visit the chicken lady out there, maybe, too, to exchange tricks of from one urban farmer to another. I would like to see her set-up again.
6.) The Waldo Burton Memorial Boys Home. It is getting warmer. I can go out of my way to investigate further.
7.) The Blue Öyster Cult house on North Genois Street.
8.). How gratitude is a blessing and expressing it is not a chore. Instead, it is a joy. I am paraphrasing Ms. Manners who said it in her column this morning. I have missed the Times-Picayune.
9.) The Barq’s vs. Abita root beer challenge that the gang has been getting up to in my absence.
10.) I need to go to Bunn’s Grocery on Bienville Street to compare and contrast the present with the past.
I am sure something else will occur to me. It always does, out of the blue, like news about Nick Lobo.
The wheels of the bus go ‘round and ‘round. So does the Wheel of Fortune.
Everyone could use a little more New Orleans in their lives.
I think the publisher of New Orleans Lunch is running a sale right now. A paid subscription is worth it at any price.