The Next American City

The Next American City: 24hours in New Orleans
Hello Folks //

So an organization called Next American City (http://americancity.org) is doing a symposium on Thursday, March 6th about the city. I am looking for help is archiving some of this.

But more importantly:

On that Saturday the 8th at 11am they are meeting at Jackson Square and then spending 24 hours in the city going through neighborhoods, doing night life and seeing what happens here when folks should be sleeping. They are looking for folks to do it with them, to documents (photo, video, audio) and offer ideas on where to go.

Humid Beings is on board to help archive and participate. I will be jumping into the 24 hours in a few chunks of time with the Sony HD and getting content to be used later on HB and linked to from them.

I would love it if any of you would help participate.

Peace & Much Love! Dirty Coast Press

Alternative Media Expo ’08

Check out this event: Alternative Media Expo ’08

Hosted By: Antigravity Magazine
When: Saturday Feb 23, 2008
at 12:00 PM
Where: The Warehouse at the Contemporary Arts Center
900 Camp St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
United States
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Antigravity Magazine

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Come out and support the Alternative Media scene and those who keep it that way!

Sunday Sunday! Bold As Love!

Nothing beats Sunday mimosas and spinning records in your hood to be again soon across from the mobile snowball stand tailgating with some devil sticks, good conversation,bull-whipping, Tina Tuner-ing, hula-hoopin' (which i had forgotten I was quite capable of) & hanging on the stoop.
I love Sunday, I love my friends and I love this city of New Orleans!
Thank you Jimi for helping remember

Anger, he smiles,
towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground

Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted,
They quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
But wonder why the fight is on
But they're all bold as love, yeah, they're all bold as love
Yeah, they're all bold as love
Just ask the axis

My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war,
and ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young, full of daring,
But very unsteady for the first go round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact I'm trying to say it's frigthened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from, eh,
Giving my life to a rainbow like you
But, I'm eh , yeah, I'm bold as love
Yeah, yeah
Well I'm bold, bold as love (hear me talking, girl)
I'm bold as love
Just ask the axis (he knows everything)
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah!


and while I am at it thanks Taylor ala Swayze for sinking this in my head
you take me through moonlight only to burn me with the sun

A Big Easy North American Union. Time to suceed Indeed!

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Mardi Gras 2008 re-cap

As usual, it was a time of magic and wonder. Thanks go to Vydra for allowing everyone (even friends of friends of friends) access to her VIP parade watching spot and use of her bathroom and fridge and basically the run of her apartment.
I didn't however catch a single go-cup but that is probably because I gave up after the first parade.
I did however receive a blinky hope diamond and buttons from the Skeleton Krewe as well as there paper.
Muses was amazing and the Camel Toe Lady Steppers stole the show!
Tandy had her first "accident" along the river mainly due to some assholes who refused to heed the warnings and get out of the way. But, thankfully it was Niki and I riding and since we have the tandem synchronicity, all we have are some bruises and the tandem suffered no damage. The fog rolling in was just magnificent. Dykini grandpa was flashing his boner under his lingerie @ Molly's and we had to high tail it ut of there quick! Go Kee-o Go Kee-o Go! Quintron & Miss Pussycat rocked it and rocked it and rocked it around!
I went to a seriously underground (Ivan, Seanspinachcan, Colin...this was ALT) Freak party in the Bywater dressed in Beka's beautiful Flamingo bustle and discovered a late 70's Alice Cooperish guy masturbating on my leg under the patio table. I also discovered a new breed of Mullet, the rat tail Mullet. I definitely entered one of the "portals of Nola" that night!
Who new gutter-punks had I-Mac's?
The Nola Ninja's came out on Mardi-Gras day and rode bikes along the parade route making every child scream with excitement at spotting a Ninja!
Then to Molly's on the Market to redevouz with our Samurai and other Ninja's.... of course Dykini Grandpa was there again only this time in pink lingerie instead of white...still had a boner no-one wanted to see!
We started our journey to meet our magnificent Dragon Bicycle Float (amazing job Will, next year you will have all ninja's assistance in construction!) for the St. Anthony Parade and found the float having technical difficulties. Luckily, the Ninja's and McGuyver saw to it that it get mobile again......and off we marched...... handing out eggs with the chinese symbol for AWESOME (Stevie B. & Will's design) ....protecting babies in their strollers and wagons....kicking pirate ass all over the quarter...climbing poles (Go Kee-o!)....doing katas (Niki & I )... & dancing to the beats of the Panorama Brass Band (Thanks guys!) Ran into the Metry dancer's and the elephant man back at Molly's. more dancing in the streets!!!!
Then we found our Flock of Birds, the Peacock, the Blue-bird, and the Pigeon with their Bird Wrangler on the corner of Frenchmen.
After that, I became the lone ninja. Never leave your ninja's! Besides hanging with Buddah and the Gladiator on a couch outside Cafe Brazil, the lone Ninja ran into all kinds of trouble resulting in a Ninja toe to an assholes gut and a disappearance from the scene.
Video shot by Humble Haney for Humid Beings:


Fat Tuesday 2008 from Humid Beings on Vimeo.

THIS HAS TO STOP! 16 shootings over Mardi Gras

Just saw this article on nola.com. Was anyone else aware that there were 16 shootings during carnival? And the last two (from yesterday) happened right near where I (and a lot of other people I know) work. Great. I guess I have to watch my back going to Juan's to get a burrito and be ready to hit the deck. This is fucking ridiculous.


Latest murder comes on the heels of a violent Carnival
by Laura Maggi and Brendan McCarthy, Times-Picayune
Thursday February 07, 2008, 6:43 AM
A gunman opened fire Wednesday morning and killed a 26-year-old man driving a rental car in the Lower Garden District, sending the car careening into a nearby building.

The fatal shooting, the 21st murder in New Orleans this year, occurred closely on the heels of a trying Carnival season for police, one in which four people were murdered and 12 others injured in shootings in the past five days, according to police records.

In broad daylight Wednesday, with people standing outside, Edward Causey, 26, of New Orleans, drove a white Pontiac sedan eastbound on Annunciation Street about 10:30 a.m., authorities said.

When he reached the intersection at St. Mary Street, a waiting man sprayed his vehicle with gunfire, said New Orleans police officer Sabrina Richardson. Causey's car continued for several blocks and hit a silver Chrysler PT Cruiser heading north on Felicity Street, police said. The Pontiac came to a stop yards later after it crashed through the wall of an abandoned building.

The driver of the PT Cruiser was not injured. No one else was inside Causey's car, which was registered to a rental agency, police said.

The shooting and crash attracted dozens of neighborhood residents to the scene. Causey slumped at the wheel, bleeding from a single gunshot wound to the back.

New Orleans Emergency Medical Service workers said Causey was dead at the scene. The Orleans Parish coroner's office pulled Causey from the car and later released his identity.

About 80 minutes after the murder, Irish Channel residents reported a drive-by shooting in the 700 block of Washington Avenue. Residents told police the occupant of a passing car sprayed gunfire in the middle of the block. No one was injured.

Violent Carnival weekend

Causey's murder came after a violent weekend.

On Saturday afternoon, police found the body of Terry Robinson, 26, in a vacant lot near the corner of North Johnson and Montegut streets. An official with the Orleans Parish coroner's office said it appeared Robinson had been shot the night before.

Allen Porche, 24, was shot several times on a Lower 9th Ward street late Saturday afternoon.

A day later, police found Jadace Craft, 24, about 1 a.m. on the sidewalk in the 1600 block of Marigny Street with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.

Javonte Morgan, 15, was fatally shot about 9:45 p.m. while sitting in a car in the 1700 block of North Galvez Street during a fight at a fast-food restaurant.

Gunshots injure 12

In addition, 12 people were injured in shootings in the past five days, according to police records.

-- Saturday at 1:30 a.m., at the corner of Basin and Canal streets, a man was shot in the arm during what police described as a drug deal.

-- Just after the Endymion parade passed the corner of Canal and Baronne streets, three men and two women were shot. Two men were arrested at the scene.

-- On Sunday just after 2 a.m., a man was shot in the chest and arm at 900 Common St. He was taken to the hospital, according to a police log.

-- A man was shot Monday morning just after midnight after opening his door in the 2600 block of North Tonti Street. After answering the door, he argued with someone and wrestled over a gun. The man was shot in the left arm, according to a police log.

-- Two men were shot Monday about 1:22 a.m. near the corner of Canal and Bourbon streets. One was shot on the right side, another was shot in his calf, according to police records.

-- Later Monday, at 5:21 a.m., a man was hit by a bullet near North Dorgenois and St. Ann streets. As he was walking, he heard shots, according to a police log. He later noticed he was shot in the hand.

-- Tuesday, at about 5:30 p.m., shots broke out along the parade route at St. Charles Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard, although no people were injured, Richardson said. It was the latest in a string of non-fatal shootings near crowded parade routes.

A group of officers standing near the route saw a young man shoot a gun, Richardson said. They chased him for a half block before catching him. The suspect, 16, was caught with the gun in his hand, Richardson said.

-- On Tuesday about 10 p.m., a 23-year-old man driving his vehicle in the Irish Channel was shot in the head about eight blocks from the scene of the Wednesday morning murder. According to a police description of the Tuesday night incident, the man was shot after a dark vehicle stopped near 2338 St. Thomas St. Several men got out of the vehicle and opened fire, striking the man once in the back of his head, the police log stated.

The men fled, while the victim was taken to University Hospital. The victim, who has spoken to detectives, is in critical but stable condition, said Sgt. Joseph Narcisse, commander of the NOPD's public affairs unit.

Later that evening, shots were fired near the corner of Soniat and Tchoupitoulas streets, Narcisse said, but nobody was hit.

Ninja's, Tigers, and Bandits. Oh My!

Get your own @ Dirty Coast.