Haley, 7, and Shane Babb, 5, anticipate the cool sweetness of their snowballs as they wait for Shiela Marriott to prepare them at Ro-Bear's in Harahan. Photo:John McCuskerbuilding some kid a perfect snowball, at the Flora Cafe' one morning when Valentine came in for his early juice.
{I also did fresh-squoze juice for Ali.}
Only this morning Val was a bit up on breaking news: "Hey, Juicy," he says "Did you hear that one of the World Trade Center towers is on fire?" "Nah", said I, more interested in making sure to swirl the Condensed Milk just right around the cone of crushed ice to the top, without breaking it down, which would not do at all, mashing up all the color layers I had painstakingly laid in the snowball already. While the kid watched, Val, stepped across Royal to get a paper and comes back in looking a little scared...looking me right in the eye he said, "You may want to get over to Big Daddy's and check the TV." "What?", I said, stepping around a few more of the children waiting for their snowballs. Then da'Angel storms into the cafe, "HEY EVERYBODY! SOMEONE HAS JUST FLOWN A GODDAMN AIRLINER INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK!"
The place emptied like fire in a theater, as everyone ran to the bars across the street to see it on the Tube. Suddenly Schiro's was packed too. Suddenly there was not a car on the street outside, as I suspect anywhere else in America either. Me, I turned around and looked at the kids waiting on their snowballs and asked,
Who's next?
Caught Da'Big Molluski, Our Noble Oyster
~live on local radio at 9pm this morning!
~Editilla D'OHs!~Called my Hero on da'radio...
Missmissed da'Ladda as just'a'nutta aggregata?
--like some Fuckless Dead Pelican*#%!???
(you have to admit that Dead Pelicans don't Fuck.)
...send'em ta'college and they Eat The Sheets...
Jeez Louie!
Niagragate Falls? Did somebodya say...
Niagragate Falls?!? Slooooowly I toins!
Step by Step ...Inch by Inch... Mile by Mfkn Mile!
HA! NOT! Grrrrr...we are so over that! Way above it! Passed beyond them like the Silence of the Lambs!
How many pelicans do you know that can even spell Wittgenstein, let alone begin to understand his thoughts on Language as an aggregate of reality, as our Ladder if you will, to see above and beyond the mahem, nay before the rising tide of clashing cultures? Hmmm?
Editilla loves pelicans. Real Live Pelicans. Ya'know...
the State Bird. Indeed we dream of them talking to us before the storm. We dream of riding a glider with a flock of pelicans, swooping in over Lakeview and down into the bywater to roost again one fine day. Home.
But Dead Pelicans, like Dead Fish, always and only just go with da'floatsam and da'jetsam...da'world... going to Mallin a Handbasket.
Aggregates don't correspond with sources.
Aggregates don't hunt the Exquixotic Corps like a Pissed Off Catahoula. Aggregates don't make up words.
--But they do aggregate and We thank Fortuna for'em!
Arguably, does not yer oh'so humble Editilla offer up
Precious Loyal Gentle'rillas a bit of Prompt Succor?
~wit'a little something extra on da'side?
Hélas l'Evaculture!
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"Probably proven" flood protection
~Your Right Hand Thief
Hurricane Ike prompts tropical storm warning for New Orleans~Mark Schleifstein
Louisiana sending buses to Texas
Storm Surge Gates Closed in New Orleans Area
Louisiana PSC To Investigate Electricity Providers
~Central La Politics
Gustav, an economic boost for NO?~"No. 1, I don't see a flood of capital coming in there on the basis of this," said economist Loren Scott, who didn't think there was a lot of money headed for the city before Gustav. I think it's going to require a bigger test," he said, "but I think we will have to wait and see."
An economist at the University of New Orleans was also skeptical of any significant economic gains. Replays of Katrina footage in the lead-up to Gustav "have renewed the concerns people may have about visiting and doing business in the New Orleans area," Janet Speyrer said.
Hurricane Gustav Temporary Cleanup Jobs
Gustav costs nearing $500 M
DOE: To Deliver More SPR Oil Following Hurricane Gustav
~The government said that it would deliver 130,000 barrels Thursday to Placid Oil's Port Allen refiner along a Shell pipeline in
Database Key in Restoring
New Orleans ~Security Debrief
Phone carriers reprise Gustav plans for Ike
Lessons for Hospitals from Hurricane Gustav~Sheri Fink
Gambit WeeklyNew Orleans hotspot could use our help ~Birder's World
Programs recruit young, inexperienced grads to teach in New Orleans
Seven Arts Pictures Opens Post Production Facility in NOLA
Simmering for Unity:
Red Beans and “Gumbo Tales”
~Ian McNulty
Former food editor's new cookbook celebrates New Orleans' home cooking culture ~Judy Walker
3 comments:
I hope I didn't offend when I described the invaluable noladder as an "aggregator" during my radio interview. Of course, you are no "mere" aggregator, so I wish I had said "blog", also.
Thanks again for calling in! -- that mock-Palin ramble was hilarious.
Well T'ank You, Noble Oyster!
As you may know, Blogger Social Theory (BST) has become a deep fetish'0'mine.
I realized 2 things upon hearing that:
1-Editilla may have a face for the matrix but perhaps not public consumption, conferences, mixed company, childrens' birthday parties or even radio.
2-Whatever can be blogged can be blogged dearly.
All the rest we must pass over in silence.
3-A pun a day keeps the hell'hounds at bay.
4-I'm wit'Croucho.
One of the stops on our wedding trip was the island of Jost Van Dyke. We watched a flock of pelicans hunting (fishing?) off this point for over an hour. Completely mesmerizing. Film here:
http://killiansaid.blogspot.com/2008/01/sigh.html
Yesterday, my New Orleans Pelicans t-shirt arrived.
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