Bonnabel Dog Launch

Today in the Times-Picayunne: "Pet owners are raving about the perks for their pups at the dog run, part of a post-Katrina effort to rebuild and improve the Bonnabel boat launch area."

Using FEMA funds, Jefferson Parish Recreation Department repaired the parking lot and the fishing pier. About $350,000 of the parish's "nontraditional recreation" budget is being used for the dog run and a play area for small children.

Dog owners praise the run's low-to-the-ground drinking fountains, plenty of garbage cans and playgroundlike plastic tunnels.

"They say a space where dogs can legally go leashless and play with other dogs is a rarity."

Critter Fest

"Reddy's Nose," the profile photo you can see on the right, is among the juried images in the Critter show.

Critter Fest
Saturday, June 7
1-6 pm
1100 block of St. Mary St.
Join the New Orleans Photo Alliance on Saturday, June 7 from 1-6 pm at the 1100 block of St. Mary St., near the Magazine split. Bring the whole family, and your four legged friends, to celebrate NOPA's latest exhibit, Critters. The celebration will be offer critter ID chipping, dog and cat adoptions, a variety of critter vendors, live music and fun. Have your pet's photo taken as well to preserve the day forever.

Entertainment:
· Carl Mack 1pm
· Treme Brass Band 2pm
· David & Roselyn 4pm

Prytania Street Haiku

According to Wikipedia:
In English, haiku are usually written in three lines to equate to the three parts of a haiku in Japanese that traditionally consist of five, seven, and then five on (the Japanese count sounds, not syllables; for example, the word "haiku" itself counts as three sounds in Japanese (ha-i-ku), but two syllables in English (hai-ku), and writing seventeen syllables in English produces a poem that is actually quite a bit longer, with more content, than a haiku in Japanese).


A world of dew,
and within every dewdrop
a world of struggle
-Issa

My second ever driving-through-a-flood-experience

May 22 Flood on Clearview

I was out in Harahan shopping for The Movie when the rain came down in buckets. Soon the parking lot at K-Mart was flooded, and employees and a few shoppers watched and waited from the entrance/exit doors. I heard one of them laugh at my jazz fest galoshes when I hopped through the water towards the car. When I backed out of the parking lot, I heard an awful noise and discovered I had just wrecked into a floating shopping cart.

Just after I shot this video, a suburban came speeding by, dumping a huge wake into my car and onto me. There was still water in the cupholders the next morning, There is a sound the car starts to make in this video that remains, a high-pitched, rusty-sounding whine. I think it f-uped
the power steering but I am not worried because it is a production rental.

A Muddy Fest but...

...there was Elvis!