Walton Ford, ‘Dirty Dick Burton’s Aide de Camp’ 2002 (detail)

Also also: gray langur

And also: Hiroshi Watanabe, Monkeys, Amber Fort, Jaipur, India

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“ Who gossips with you will gossip about you. Unknown, traditional

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Vintage orange SUV in the rain, BMW grill, Brooklyn late nights

November 14

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Billy Bragg - ‘A New England’ 1983 (purchase)

From Siege’s Summer of 17 mix, songs that were on heavy rotation in my Camaro the summer after I dropped out of high school.

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Fonville Winans, Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, New Orleans 1932

“One of the all-time favorite tourist attractions of the New Orleans French Quarter is Jean Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, on the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Phillip Street. It was built sometime before 1772, and is one of the few remaining original “French architecture” structures in the French Quarter.

Two devastating fires, one in 1788, and the other in 1794, all but destroyed New Orleans. Hundreds of buildings - businesses and residences - were destroyed. New Orleans, and Louisiana, was under Spanish rule at the time, and the city was rebuilt as a Spanish styled city, replacing what was a crudely built French port and trading post.

Tradition has it that the Lafitte brothers operated this blacksmith shop as a legitimate appearing business, serving as a front for their privateer enterprises. One of the brothers was the infamous Jean Lafitte, Privateer, and co-hero of the Battle of New Orleans.” -At New Orleans, ‘Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop’

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Fonville Winans, New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian c1930s

Also also: Mardi Gras Indians Do Battle 2007

And this: Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indians On Martin Luther King Boulevard

And also: Mardi Gras Indians Show Their Feathers, Central City

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Fonville Winans, New Orleans Mardi Gras c1930s

November 11

“ The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A Note To Young Art Directors and The Photographers That Work With Them

See also: Art Ethics

Also also: You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice

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The birthplace of the New Orleans Po-Boy, Martin Brothers Restaurant, and John Gendusa Bakery, c1931. (photo poboyfestneworleans)

NYT: “The Martins were onetime streetcar workers who, at the height of the strike, pledged to feed their former colleagues at their sandwich and coffee stand. “Whenever we saw one of the striking men coming,” Bennie Martin later recalled, “one of us would say, ‘Here comes another poor boy.’ ”
Over time, by way of various elisions, both vernacular and purposeful, po’ boy or po-boy became the widely accepted renderings of poor boy. In the process, as vowels and consonants were swallowed, the roots of the sandwich were, too.
“I can’t imagine there’s another American food item that owes its birth to labor violence,” Dr. Mizell-Nelson said. “That’s the forgotten story.”

Don’t even get me started on the muffuletta

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Where I come from it is customary to have a “door bat” (other similar customs: boot knife, gun rack, wallet chain). This is my current door bat. I call it Peacekeeper #4. It is matte black aluminum.

Not to be confused with.

November 10