Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In the comments to one of the posts below, AnimaMundi brings the sad news that the very popular New Orleans blogger Ashley Morris has passed away.
Those of you in New Orleans may want to know that the funeral is this Friday. (”Attire is either formal or SAINTS (or combination).” Further details here.
Also: An open thread [...]
Posted in New Orleans, Uncategorized on January 14, 2007 | Comments Off
We used to live a walkable distance from the big Orleans neutral ground where they pile up xmas trees and burn them every New Year’s. And yet, we never went. That was stupid. Check out this YouTube video of this year’s event.
Out. Of. Control.
The really is no other place even remotely like New Orleans…
Posted in New Orleans, Uncategorized on January 11, 2007 | Comments Off
A recent Gambit article recaps the Neighborhood Story Project, which I’ve mentioned here before and which has gotten a decent amount of attention in the past. About halfway down, there’s something I hadn’t known, which is the existence of a newer post-Katrina volume in the series, titled Coming Out the Door for the Ninth Ward, [...]
Posted in New Orleans, Uncategorized on August 20, 2006 | Comments Off
Another note or two regarding the Spike Lee documentary:
Our friend Cynthia Joyce has a nice piece in Salon about attending the New Orleans premiere:
People had been talking for weeks about how the New Orleans premiere of Spike Lee’s much anticipated Hurricane Katrina documentary, “When the Levees Broke,” was sold out, so it was a little [...]
[Or: The Point of this Site]
A couple of years ago I did some research into the song "St. James Infirmary," wrote up what I found, emailed that essay to friends and posted it on my web site (as part of a series of "Letters From New Orleans," as I was living in that city at the time). Based on the feedback, I wrote a second version of the essay, and asked for more feedback. Based on that, I wrote a third version.
And now, this site: A place to collect some of the links, leads, thoughts, and suggestions relating to the song that readers (from Finland, The Netherlands, Australia, Spain, England, Sweden, Canada, and all over the U.S.) have sent me. This may lead to a fourth and significantly expanded version of the essay, some day. Also on this site: Plenty of tangents.
Never heard "St. James Infirmary"? Start here.
The most recent version of my "St. James Infirmary" essay is now a few years old. But it's still a fairly decent overview of what I know about the song, and why I'm interested in it. You can read it either in the book Letters from New Orleans (see below), or in the archives of The Gambit, the New Orleans weekly that published the piece as a book excerpt when LfNO came out.
This site is a partial spinoff of the book Letters from New Orleans, published by the unstoppable Garrett County Press. My interest in "St. James Infirmary" is the subject of one essay in the book. All author proceeds from the book still go to post-Katrina relief efforts, so I think it's okay for me to say: You ought to buy it.
