New Orleans News Ladder

"Come early~come often!" ~~~Gonna' build up this Living Ladder, so we can rise above the storm, so we can pass over our damn nation, so we can find our way back home...Stitch-hiking the Web for Daily New Orleans News, Bloggery, Videos, Poetry, Photography, and Humor~~yeah where'yat~~post Kafkatrina Recovery for the City That Care Forgot and the Presidente left for dead. The New Orleans News Ladder receives no advertising revenue. To contact or submit articles please email from the profile. Anything goes on the Ladder, except no kiddy-porn~{which will be forwarded immediately to someone who can track you down quicker (if you're lucky) than I (if you're not), no lie, believe it, faster than a speeding bullet and with as much regard as a dragon fly, perched on the head of a water moccasin, waiting for its prey} and no gratuitous profanity. Just paste the articles' url in the email. Please tell your friends about the New Orleans News Ladder. Thank You All Lassezes Le Bon Temp Roule'!!!

About me:

I believe that Goddess takes care of fools & errant troubadours. I also believe it possible to go native without realizing it.

I've learned, written & performed my own impressionistic delta folkblues for over 20 years with care to look and listen...and practice practice.

I write literate songs.

I play: percussively, no picks...

*Nylon string guitar made in Spain by Sanchis Carpio.

*Ghost slide guitar on an Epiphone PR-850 accoustic and "REMA, the Electric Resonator Guitar!", designed by Jay Turser {and purchased with convoluted FEMA money in Baton Rouge, La after evacuating there from New Orleans 6 days after Hurricane Katrina.} I've also aquired and Ampeg electric guitar amplifier: tubes, 40 watts, 12" speaker, vintage 1962. Seriously Brown Sound.

I go for the funky hard to peg music. I produced my first CD "Babylon Cafe'...revisited" in 1999 as well as my second CD, and instrumental "Smooth to the Fine and other Peaces for the new Melliniumn" 2000. I was workking on material for CD#3 when the hurricane came.

Headquarted now here in Memphis, I hope to start touring the country, playing gigs, selling my music in the sky with myspace, itunes, google, etc.

I live for Science Fiction...as opposed to Sci Fantacy. I enjoy fiction in general but particularly that written by scientists...or in that genre with Dick,Sterling & Stephenson.

My other influences go from "e-prime" to Frank Loyd Wright to Frank Zappa to Bucky Fuller to Metaphysics Annonymous (i had to quit).

If you could put me in a church before you nailed the doors shut and burned it down, the altar would hold the tao te ching; inside a building built of dharma; surrounded by sprawling grounds of Secular Humanism; ringed by a 4 dimensional, wave-like, seething perimiter of gorrilla cyberpunk rail-tail futurist hyper-level social view.

Right now I think that our country is headed for the mall in a handbasket. I would like to see criminal prosectution of the president & vice president, and personally introduce them to Big Rufus on Cell Block #9.

I love technology and believe that whatever we want Mother Earth provides.

I think of Art as a Socratic Virtue. Yep, right up there with Sight, Hearing and all the rest of the sences.

"If I can't dance I don't want to come to your revolution!", Ema Goldman

"When the going gets wierd the weird turn pro.", Hunter S. Thompson

Illegitimis Non Carborundum!

Lassezes Le Bon Temp Roule'!!!

OM AH HUM HRI OM MANI PADME HUM

"If someone finds a door, my keys are in it.", Loyola student minutes after the recent tornado.