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Derek Bridges
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Derek Bridges lives in New Orleans, trading in words and pictures. A carpetbagger of long standing, he grew up in the top right corner of IL and later went to college in the middle cornfield part. He has also lived in MS and FL, for educational purposes only, and was diasporized for a time in TX.
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Cheryl Wagner, author of Plenty Enough Suck To Go Around: A Memoir Of Floods, Fires, Parades, and Plywood, is being featured at the TPMCafe Book Club. Check it out.
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Child #1: [Parent], no parent does that. You don’t have to do that. City Councilperson: … if they were not in my same situation they wouldn’t do it … but it sounds like a reasonable thing to me. Child #1: No it doesn’t. …
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In 1958 young photographer Art Kane managed to assemble 57 great jazz musicians in Harlem for a portrait: I’ve thought for a long time it’d be great to do a New Orleans version of this photo. In fact, we could do a few variations: one…
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When I was seven, my father set up in the backyard with a big sheet of plywood spread across a couple saw horses. He painted a mural of a barn the viewer could see through to a field on the other side. One time he…
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It seems obvious that Lee Circle should get a new name–and Lee’s statue removed, maybe buried Cadillac Ranch-style out in City Park. I’m not about to propose any alternatives, but Can’t we all agree it’s time to turn the page on Lee? Almost anything would…
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Every so often at a parade I wonder why I bother. Usually it’s when I see some jackassery from the likes of … But Wednesday evening I met this guy David from St. Bernard that made going to the parades seem more like a harmonious…
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I wonder if the African serval found in somebody’s Uptown backyard yesterday is the same cat I took a picture of back in September 2006 while waiting in line for Angelo Brocoto’s to re-open: Yes, they’re illegal for private citizens to own in Orleans Parish.
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From jury selection today at Tulane & Broad, the Assistant District Attorney: If this imaginary line here is reasonable doubt, and my body is halfway across the line, would that be reasonable doubt? Hard to say, but it’s a touchdown for sure.
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New Orleans: The Times-Picayune, C-12, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009
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Three days down and three days to go for jury duty. Just a hunch, but I think both prosecutors and defense attorneys have plenty of reasons to not want me on their juries. So far that’s been the case, anyway. A defense attorney asked me…
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