April 21, 2009#

fresh gator

Living in New Orleans, it can be easy to forget you’re not really in that big of a city after all.  There’s an entire world, just a few miles away, that most people in New Orleans would never dream of venturing .

Unfortunately, St. Bernard Parish gets a bad rap.Aimee is a Chalmette native, so I’m down there on a regular basis.  It isn’t necessarily St. Charles Ave, but there is a certain charm about Chalmette. There’s lots of open land, diverse wildlife, and the mighty Mississippi.  And, while the air may not be the freshest around, it does have one thing Magazine Street doesn’t have.  Fresh Alligator.

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April 11, 2009#

seems i was wrong.

So I have to be honest, I was convinced. Word Camp, you convinced me. Twitter seems to be a very powerful tool. I’ve already gotten a great number of hits to my website from this weekend’s Word Camp.

By the way, I’d like to make a shout out to all my new “tweeps” (for those of you not in the know, a tweep is a twitter peep… at least I guess that’s what it is – I’m not entirely sure).

Anyway, I did learn some great stuff, and I hope to attend next year. I’d also like to try and see if I can speak about something awesome next year (if anyone out there reading this, I’m like the best CSS coder in the world – for reals).

I’ve also realized there is a whole lot of stuff about Word Press that I didn’t even know was possible. I can’t wait to start playing around with all of these new tools that I learned. I’m like so totally excited! OMG!

Word to your collective mothers.

July 6, 2008#

why my house is better than yours

if you haven’t been to algiers point, you’re certainly missing out.

why the point is better than where you live:

i live about 5 minutes from a rouse’s with shelves full of ice cold schlitz. you might say, “hey i live about 5 minutes from a rouse’s with shelves full of ice cold schiltz.” well, that might be true, but that’s not the only reason algiers point is better than where you live.

i had a few friends over today and had a little bbq on my kick ass marigny style balcony, overlooking the levee and big ol’ boats passing by on the mighty mississippi. which, i’m sure i don’t have to tell you, is pretty righteous.

my house, by the way, happens to be on the national register of historic places.

it’s also on the list of places to see on the algier’s walking tour.

701 patterson – ctrl f and search. pretty sweet.

after the bbq i decided to go see a movie. i happen to like the canal place theater a lot. if you’ve never been to the canal place movie theater, it’s pretty awesome. they have all the “hip” indie movies, and they also have fancy imported chocolate.

well the canal place theater is right across the river from my apartment. i can see it from my balcony. best part is, it’s right next to the ferry landing on the river walk. i happen to live right by the ferry on the opposite side.

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