A Visit to Lost New Orleans

Old Absinthe House. Fats Pichon was house pianist for years. Sweet Emma played there with Percy & Willie Humphrey plus Cie, circa 1961. (Info on the picture from my people at the Facebook New Orleans Music Group). 


Going to New Orleans always has a somewhat dreamilke quality. This Curmudgeon piece is just an extension of that.


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The Media's "Death-Of" Industry

                               
"The media megalopolis thoughtfully provides us with an endless stream of top ten best and worst lists, but one of the media’s most thriving sub-industries is the Death-of industry, which has the schaden-freudian task of informing us which precious cultural commodity is about to kick the bucket."

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