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I just had a very nice cab driver take us on a 1.5 hour $90.00 (with tip) cab ride.

Never mind what my white bread tourist ass said yesterday.

Things are not OK. Between the airport and French Quarter and then to Jazz Fest it looks a little beat up.

What I saw today cannot even be put into words. Beyond your wildest horror show imagination.

The only thing I can even possibly compare it to intensity wise, was a look at the death camps from WWII.

I am not shitting you.
The 9th Ward looks like Katrina hit yesterday and somebody lit a few bombs just for grins.

Our driver sure knew how to do a tour as he save the best for last.

It was so beyond comprehension, that I thought taking video or pictures would be disrespectful, which is why I cannot even begin to give you the picture of what I just saw. Twisted houses, cars thru roofs. This wasn’t anything you could ever imagine . . .

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NOLA is in better shape than I expected. If you weren’t paying attention you wouldn’t know anything bad happened here because parts of NOLA always looked beat up and run down. But when you are paying attention you can see. They have done a great job in 8 months.
But what is weird is what you don’t see. They are so short of people here. Big restaurants that were and have been open for business, had many tables open (they were in plain site) but not enough staff to put people in them.
Tons of places that we know are open late, especially on a big weekend like this were closed way early. Again not enough staff.
Help wanted ads for days in the paper.

The good news: They are going to be OK if they get their shit together before the hurricane season starts and get them levees fixed.

Big crowd here for Jazz Fest and people are spending some dough. And everybody thanks you profusely for coming. They say right out “we are so glad you came, because we really need it now.”

So I am doing my bit by trying to relieve them of a few extra soft shelled crabs, hot andoullie sausage, shrimps and those pesky mufalettas from Central Grocery.

For Duty and Humanity

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4/13/2006
She will be missed . . .

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This has been hell . . .

April podcasts 12 days late, you're thinking ? Something must be up ?

And you would be right.

Thru a misunderstanding between myself and my host server that had nothing to do with anything other than me reporting myself as spam (huh? nevermind . . . I was just turning in the punks who leave spam comments) and the host interpreted it to mean I was the spammer and they took the site down.

I knew within 10 seconds what had happened, but since they are a huge corporate dynamo, they have no viable phone support so there was no making a case for a silly error.

There is more to the story about how it is a miracle I am back and in one piece thanks to Jessica and Jason who were my humans on the other end of the line, and of course to the ever present Alex N, who looks after me with the great care, Again no amount of thanks could be enough to thank him.
But lets get back to biz at hand. April editions are loading as I write this.

And I have a few new URL's that lead to the site that aren't nearly as big a mouthful as thebesradioyouhaveneverheard.

Next time you tell someone about the site via email or word of mouth (which I am hoping everyone is, to help create buzz for my little project) just give them:

www.bestradiopodcast.com

Short and sweet.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming already in progress . . .

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