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Jambalay means improvise. Its about roux and beer. And Hank Williams and Fats Domino. As my mentor Boston chef Ted Laska said, feel free to put whatever is in the refrigerator there in terms of meat. Shredded chicken is popular. Using what is at hand is key. I use butter or oil more than the olive oil as described here. Okra can suffice for celery. Green or red peppers can be used. Don’t forget to put on a Louis Armstrong record. ¼ lb ham, diced ¾ lb sausage, cubed 1 can diced tomatoes 1can whole tomatoes 1 small can tomato juice ½ cup cooked rice 1 medium Vidalia onion diced 3 stalks celery sliced 1-2 cup stock [your call: vegetable, beef, chicken, fish] 1 1/2 cup water 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 teaspoon minced garlic 1 tablespoon sweet pepper relish or similar ½ tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon Jamaican Pickapeppa sauce 10-12 shrimp, deveined shelled 1 tablespoon Jameson’s Irish whiskey 1 tablespoon parsley 1 teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper Pepper, salt to taste 1...

The New Orleans disapora comes into bas relief this day .. as it is Madi Gras. It's like a band that lost its original bassist. And pianist. The walking blues has a different meter. Something like that. John Pareles has been in N.O. for NYT to report on the status of the culture there, which is first about music. He sees Kermit Ruffins at Vaughan's. And they play Bing's Wrap Your Trouble in Dreams. Read it and weep. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/arts/27orleans.html?ex=1298696400&en=b10ac084f1bfdd00&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Down at Vaughan's with Kermit http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/arts/28fats.html Fats Domino Sets an Example for New Orleans http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/arts/music/28pare.html?ex=1298782800&en=dc3e7aba76353a94&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Madri Gras Dawns With Some Traditions in Jeopardy

A lot of people ask us what it looks like in the Moon Herald Traveller news room. Jake took the time here to depict the scene. He is busy these days with art school portfolio work. We hope you appreciate having this look behind the scenes.

-- A review of 23rd st. Tantric Siddhas show invited me to get out the old cut-up technique. The gods of this show are crazy mystics. Craziness as insight has its limits. Recent visit to S.F. showed me the Street Corner Conductors - still recalled. Anyway, p oem is based on this article. Pic at left shows what it is about. -- Download this poesy as a Podcast! 2megs, 2 minutes [NOTE: Our first experience is in. For now, Podcasts will post and then remove in 1 month. If you access this page one month after publication, the podcast link will have expired..sorry. Get it while you can.] Back on the corner Back in the days of the Hindu crazies A holy madness compulsively turned the bloody history wheel. The karmic machines dropped their little pearls In the pantheon of sloth and contraption of careful wisdom. At the same time a picnic of gods would dive into the river Wash their cultural fabric Watch the dye eternally flowing And tree limbs hung with gauzy saris And the people would ask ...

Spacesuit Still Alive, Giving Weak Signal The cats in the Space Station are not dulled floating in orbit. It occurred to them to stuff clothes into an old space suit, attach a ham radio, set the mess off into space. Strangely it evokes a 2001 [1969] moment. Dave, I am concerned about the mission. ABC News. Anyway. It has turned now into a great event for the real true futurists: Hammers. Follow it. Use links below http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/articles/BauerSuitsat/index.php http://www.suitsat.org/ http://www.suitsat.org/index.html Biomass: Hope and Hype - Technology Review National Resources Defense Council and researchers at Dartmouth and Princeton project that by 2050, in part through harvesting both protein and cellulose from corn and switchgrass, existing agricultural land could both supply our food needs and replace. But, the supermarket systems and the farming infrastructure are not prepared. Or primed to prepare. From Technology Review. Biotech's Sparse Harvest - New York ...

You can trace elements of the style of rap back to Bo Diddley and shave-and-a-haircut. [I know last time I saw Bo he said he invented it.] But in my opinion the immediate precedence for the style were Black poets and Black militants. How do you describe the Last Poets? Maybe as Black Poets. Certainly as incredibly imagistic, highly rhythmic and very musical poets. They were Black poets on vinyl in my younger days. In the early 70s in New York we were aware of them .. and heard cats with a bit of a similar bent, including John Giordino. With this as background, and with the newspapers penetrating my mind like knives, I wrote a poem that could be called Phantom Jets. I am trying to work out the kinks in a podcast system, and I picked that poem for that purpose. You can download it to your iPod, I am told. [Or to other devices including desktop computer.] Click here to download Phantom Jets MP3- 1 min - 939kbytes [NOTE: Our first experience is in. For now, Podcasts will post and then re...

Recent visit to San Francisco and evening and pool with friends Dave and Jim brought to mind a time in the late ‘70s in Doug’s Pool Hall on State St. in Racine. There’s a thread that connects I think . Doug’s Pool Hall has got a little bit of ’63 Kennedy sculpture A smiley Johnny with a Santa’s face - There’s a genuine 1957 Braves’ team photo And beautiful Breck hair girls of 1947. Doug’s clothes hang here and there lightly on nails - Nails in the four by four that holds up that one hunk of ceiling. Everything is memory brown Except of course for the green felt tables. One giant of a man looks up at tonight’s TV - wears a brimmed-down fishing hat Same as his smaller friend. It’s nine o’clock summer night in my hometown On Lake Michigan and Doug exchanges news with Jim. Where is Dave? Gone to California. Where is Jeff? On his way from New Mexico. Did you know that Gene Ammons died? We look at the floor. Oh he was my favorite, Doug says. With soft touch, he racks for us. Coke and Sunr...