The 13 Thursday Kick-off
1. It’s always a good idea to keep dollar bills in your pocket to tip the musicians and street performers when you’re in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
2. Eating beignets – New Orleans’ take on Native American’s fried dough – is a French Quarter rite of passage.
3. I wanted to eat a beignet on Tuesday so I could take a picture and caption it: Getting Fat Tuesday, but I didn’t get to try one till Thursday.
4. From the Super 8 in Atlanta Friday night : Bill Maher just offered Elizabeth Warren a million dollars if she would run and win the Democratic Party nomination for president.
5. But she’s not: “Liberals might not like hearing this, but it’s going to be Hillary Clinton or a Republican in 2016. It really breaks down to these two options: Either get on board with Hillary Clinton, even if she’s not everything you’ve dreamed of. – or – Whine and cry because Elizabeth Warren isn’t 
going to run, become apathetic, then let Republicans win the White House in 2016; likely replace four Supreme Court Justices over the following 8 years; start a war with Iran; ruin the planet; destroy our economy again; and undo all the good that’s been done these last 6 years. Yes, it’s really that simple.” More HERE.
6. When traveling, it all boils down to this: Joe looks at maps and I take pictures.
7. It’s amazing what we did with the iPhone during the 12 hour (each way) road trip, even though we both barely know what we’re doing. Joe found an app that let him listen to the Masters Golf Tournament via the iPhone through the radio. We listened to Terry Gross, the best story I’ve ever heard on This American Life and Pandora. We face-timed our grandsons, used the GPS for directions and found a restaurant that led to the best sushi dish I’ve ever have had in my life and caused me to write my first Trip-Advisor review.
8. The first thing I did when we got home from our spring break vacation in New Orleans was to correct all the typos made while blogging on the road with a netbook and no Adobe Photoshop.
9. On writing a poem a day for NaPoWriting like some of my online poet friends: I’d be happy to write one a month.
10: This month’s begins: I mourn the loss of turquoise / and the richness of royal / periwinkle, powder / cobalt and cornflower / Sometimes black looks navy / Sometimes in the morning / I catch a glimpse of aquamarine / but by afternoon it’s all turned white … More from my latest poem, I Don’t See Blue HERE.
11. Speaking of poets, see what kind of poetic and photogenic blog post elicited this comment from me: I’d rather have a navel, best this time of year. I once had a pink suede pocketbook on the beach that the tide swept up and stained. I called it “tide-dyed.” Your words unhook the dress of my mind. Like Van Morrison doing The Back Room. HERE.
12. Home is Where You Hang Your Mardi Gras Beads HERE. Where else but in New Orleans can you see a woman feeding a pig in the street and another one parading around bare-breasted and giving out spankings to passerbys?
13. “I don’t know why people work so hard to anticipate failure.” Barack Obama
_________Thirteen Thursday
April 15th, 2015 9:49 pm
I had to laugh because I read through your post and looked at all the photos and it was only after I looked at the photos again that I even noticed the pig. At any other time or place, a pig on a leash would be the most unusual thing I’ve seen, but not there.
April 16th, 2015 12:02 am
I got my first smart phone recently. there’s no way I’d get as much out if it right now as you got out of you iPhone, but I’m getting there.
April 16th, 2015 3:23 am
“I’d rather have a navel, best this time of year. I once had a pink suede pocketbook on the beach that the tide swept up and stained. I called it “tide-dyed.” Your words unhook the dress of my mind. Like Van Morrison doing The Back Room.”
That’s brilliant.
April 16th, 2015 5:18 am
#6 I can see it now
April 16th, 2015 5:32 am
#4. If only!
#5. “She is a hell of a lot better than any Republican alternative.” <— a quote from the link that I totally agree with.
#7. I have a new iphone. I've got A LOT to learn.
April 16th, 2015 12:28 pm
Love #12 because it reminds me a bit of Key West during Fantasy Fest or on New Year’s Eve.
April 16th, 2015 2:11 pm
Thanks, now I want beignets. Also glad to know I’m not the only one who goes back over old blog posts and corrects typos. My T13
April 16th, 2015 6:47 pm
I wish Warren would run but she won’t. We’ll see how it all turns out. The world waits.
I loved your poem about blue.
April 16th, 2015 11:37 pm
The French Quarter is a “trip” in more ways than one!
April 17th, 2015 10:06 am
You say beignets, others think bannock, in the end you can blame it on Evangeline – old time French cuisine while on the run.
Live from the Super 8 in Atlanta, so that’s what goes on in there.
I inspected the pig. Not a hint of wings.
Oh you kids amaze me with your techi savvy. Don’t have a cell phone. And I still think an app is deep fried mozzarella or calamari.
Ten tugged. As for Eleven, again I’ll quote you, “Touche”.
April 17th, 2015 10:34 am
Calvin, you crack me up!
April 18th, 2015 6:49 pm
Fun … Loved all your Nawlins posts so much. Wanted to thank you for the link in your #5… From the Progressive. I’ll be forwarding that to several people I know.
February 10th, 2016 7:26 pm
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