Category: The Good Things
Resignations
So first Eddie Price resigns the mayorship of Mandeville.
Now Aaron Broussard (who previously ruined my chances for the presidency by seceding Jefferson Parish from the Union and making me a foreign-born citizen) has resigned as president of Jefferson Parish.
Only Nagin remains.
Funny how the suburbs went down first.
Best Music of 2009
Perhaps the most eagerly awaited post on elbuzzard.com is the annual Best Of music list. We pretend to be music critics, you pretend to be interested, the site gets a bunch of spam from auto-link generators that I have to delete. It’s a great time to be alive.
As always, feel free to post your own lists in the comments. We’re also looking for Top 50 Songs of 2009 lists for our Scientific Best of 2009 list.
So without further ado, here is the elbuzzard.com Best of Music 2009 List:
Rode hard and put away wet
Check out the blog for Paul’s upcoming film Fourplay: http://fourplaythemovie.blogspot.com/.
Naturally, I picked out the worst picture from the site to post here. Check it out if you are interested in transvestite sex-workers hired by paraplegic clients. If that’s not your sort of thing, you have been warned.
It’s happening!
We finally worked out the contract on the house, and it went binding on Saturday.
Nothing is ever final until the closing (which is September 14), but now we are locked in to a contract with buyers, and they can’t back out without losing their earnest money. All that is left to do that could gum things up is the appraisal, but no one thinks that will be a problem.
Finally.
After 9 months of trying to sell this house, it’s almost over.
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
I have a wife again!
My bachelor days are over again, Leslie is now a New Orleanian.
Alien
Our tomato plant is dying from some sort of bacterial wilt. Rather than pitch it, we have surrendered it to this gentleman, who is steadily eating every green leaf off of it:
Here’s a video of the little guy turning around, and then taking a dump:
SuperBowl!
So New Orleans will host the 2013 Super Bowl. That’s great news, since it means that the Saints and the state reached an agreement to keep the team in New Orleans until 2025.
The last time I was in New Orleans during the Super Bowl was in 1997. Jamie and I marched up and down Bourbon Street chanting “DITKA AND SAINTS IN NINETY-EIGHT.” I’m pretty sure that Jamie, a Rams fan, was laughing at the Saints, but I believed. What a fool I was.
Even better, this Super Bowl will fall on Bacchus weekend.
Let’s hope they redesign that logo. I like the idea, but the execution is awful. “A Perfect Ten”? Yes, I know it’s the city’s 10th SuperBowl. It’s still dumb. The street sign looks like a license plate.
Here’s a little bit of JazzFest for you
I’m not a JazzFest purist. Sure, I’m not a huge fan of Dave Matthews Band playing all the time, but I know the good times to be had by acts likes Bon Jovi. Lionel Ritchie taught me how to love the hit makers at JazzFest.
Bon Jovi taught this guy, who rocked out for the entire show:
He was just as much fun to watch as Ritchie Sambora’s talk box solos.