Category: General

Gary Glitter has been banned from the NFL.  You might know his song “Rock & Roll Part 2” as “Dr. Who.”  Everybody knows the song, they play it all the time at games.

Well, Gary went to jail for doing extra-bad things, and the NFL banned the song from its games.  From Aversion:

The league’s iced the practice of playing Glitter’s largely instrumental pump-up song during its games, according to Newsweek. The decision was tipped after Glitter was convicted of molesting a pair of girls in Vietnam (read full story). His appeal was later overruled. He’s now serving a three-year term for the conviction.

Sorry Dave, I know how much you love that song.

I wonder if they would have taken OJ out of the Hall of Fame if he was found guilty.  I’m not defending what Gary Glitter did, but what do his actions have to do with the song?

It doesn’t seem like it has been that long, and at the same time, it feels like the storm was ages ago. Being in the city last weekend was good, but it really drove home that there is a lot of work still to be done. There has been a good amount of progress and no progress since I was last there in May. I guess that’s the typical dual nature of New Orleans, where rich and poor live in the same neighborhoods, where we celebrate a religious holiday with drunken debauchery.

The grass is back and green again. It was still mostly dead in May. Of course, now it’s two feet tall in front of neglected houses. I guess that’s better than dead grass.

I have mixed feelings today. A lot of feelings, actually. I’m thankful that we all made it through the storm and the levees’ failure. I’m angry at the government. I’m tired of defending the city to people who don’t understand. I’m happy that the city and its people continue on, despite the hardships of everyday life that the rest of the country (myself included here in Atlanta) take for granted. I’m both hopeful and worried for the future.

The city has changed forever. That’s not good, that’s not bad, it’s just different. New Orleans breeds a hardiness of attitude and a love of tradition that will be valuable attributes in the days to come. Sure the city will change. But it will always be New Orleans, it will always be my city, my home, no matter where I live.

I’ve never had a better Hansen’s Sno-Bliz than the one I had on Saturday. It tasted like home.

Cheers for surviving and perservering! New Orleans will rise again!!!

Lacking even one decent linebacker, the Saints gave away their best receiver for Eagle back-up Mark Simonea. N.O. has now added the only linebackers in the league—Scott Shanle, Jay Foreman, Tommy Polley, Scott Fujita and Anthony Simmons—that cannot break into the Saints’ starting line-up.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2564338

What if the ex-new orleans folks got their tattoos on the one year anniversary?

Has everyone seen this? This is the greatest license plate in the history of the world. How many places can say they have the TeleTubbies home town on their license plates?

I’m pretty sure everyone that knows me knows that I think that banning liquids from planes will not keep us safe and is purely a kneejerk reaction by the government who is more interested in cultivating a culture of fear than in actual passenger safety.

But then I saw this article: Boy boards plane without tickets, and thought of the wonderful possibilities if our government followed this situation to its logical conclusion: BAN CHILDREN FROM AIRPLANES.

Just imagine it.

A liquid-free, child-free flight.

I’d gladly give up my toothpaste and flask of whiskey to not have somebody’s spawn kicking my seat and crying incesantly.

I’ll get it fixed soon.

So this is a pretty big week in the realm of the world returning to normal.

First, there was football on TV. Oakland stinks. Aaron Brooks looks like Aaron Brooks. But he really celebrated when the Raiders scored on a pass he shouldn’t have thrown to a receiver who said after the game “I don’t know how I came up with that, I just put my hands out a hoped.” Never mind that you only had to go 23 yards to score Aaron. You rocked that TD pass. You’re a leader. You’re a winner.

That will be my last Aaron Brooks bashing post. Let the Drew Brees bashing begin. I wish the Saints first preseason game was going to televised. How can the networks skip Reggie Bush’s debut? Dummies.

Second, our house is free of house guests for the first time in 11 months. Well, there are two cats left. There were a couple of stretches where we didn’t have folks staying with us, but during that time we always knew there would be more, so we could never get the house back in order. I will kind of miss the computer in the living room. I liked watching TV while posting on the internet. I guess I just need to get a nice laptop.

And…  Today is Leslie’s first day on her new job.  Congrats and good luck!

1. Become a professional student. I would go get a Master’s degree and then another, and then another, and so on.
2. Buy a house Uptown.
3. Buy everyone a house Uptown.
4. Travel. Across South America, the U.S., Europe.
5. Give money to everyone who wanted to go to school, or start their own business.
6. Buy a house in Venice.
7. I’d buy a plane so I could visit everyone whenever I wanted to.
8. Buy the Saints for Kent.
9. Buy the Sooners for Dave.
10. Buy Marnie Jake Delhomme.
11. Buy the aquarium for Jack – and a big boat.
12. Buy my Mom a newspaper business. Maybe the New York Times.
13. Buy Beth a Springer Spaniel farm.
14. And a house on the ocean.