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So a few fun things that have happened on the home front (New Orleans & Slidell) since Katrina.

Speakeasys:
A few bars in New Orleans have taken up the old tradition of Speak Easys, that is you give a passcode at the door to get in. This is mostly to get around the midnight curfew so that patrons can still some semblance of normality, i.e. sitting in a bar until 6am. No details on which bars or the passcodes because well I don’t feel it’s my right to give it away.

Police Entertainment in Slidell:
So what do you do when you’re an out-of-state police officer trying to find some entertainment in a city that has not quite come back to life. (This story is from some time back but due to slow information passage I’m only just getting it). My old roommate, a current Sherrif’s Deputy in St. Tammany parish related this story to me when we finally were able to get together for dinner one night. Basically he pulled up on a Kentucky State Trooper dealing with a drunk near the Hwy. 11 on-ramp to I-12. They pulled up on the man wandering around, trying to find a place to eat and clearly to drunk to be attempting to cross the street. So they talk to him for a while and eventually tell him they will let him go if he can pass a simple test. The test? First they tell him to point down at a rock by his feet and say “Rock”. He smiles and easily accomplishes the task. They then tell him to point up at the sky and say “Star”. He again does the task with relative ease. Then they have him combine the two which turns into the old disco dance move while saying “Rock Star” the entire time. The two police officers have to take turns walking away to laugh. A few other entertaining tests ensue before they question the man on what he’s doing. He explains that he’s trying to get to Mississippi and that he hitched a ride to Slidell. The police look baffled at the man and tell him that he’s not in Slidell. The man in turn insists that he is when the police officers point to their car and say “Do you see what it says on the side of the car? It says Kentucky State Police, you are in Kentucky.” This causes a bit of distress in the man, all the while my old roommate is off to the side enjoying a good laugh. All the fun ends though when a Louisiana State Trooper pulls up and sends the man back to his perch under the overpass, telling him to stay there until he sobers up or they will arrest him.

New Orleans Pictures:
Pictures to come soon from a friend that recently went back to survey his house in New Orleans. Wow, those were amazing pictures. Things like cars and boats in places that they shouldn’t be. More to come when I get copies.