July 2010
29 posts
“Creole shotgun and a yard out back, … cool breeze blowin’ through my...”
– Jon Cleary, “Port Street Blues”
June 2010
18 posts
“The difference between growing up in New Orleans, starting in 1960, and growing...”
– Micahel Lewis from “Wading Toward Home” from the New York Times Magazine
“Night peoples have a whole different theory on life different from day peoples”
– Danny Barker
"Mr. Mimic" by John McWhorter →
… this is a pretty painful read …
Cab Calloway to Dizzy Gillespie
“I used to call him on it, I’d say, ‘Man, listen, will you please don’t be playing all that Chinese music up there!’ See, he’d get something in his mind … something he wanted to improvise … “
“if you can’t be free, be a mystery”
– Rita Dove 