flash flooding i’d heard about it. i knew it to be something that happens here. but i’d never SEEN it. until today. so okay…it rained a lot here yesterday. all through the evening. maybe all through the night. when i set out for my hair appointment...

satsuma noun a smug satsuma putting on airs, as usual listen…i love new orleans and all, but don’t believe the hype. local produce or not, “satsuma” is but a synonym for “orange.” or, if you’re from here, “urnj.” O_O UPDATE: i ate one of you jerks...

earl noun one day, the “nutritionist lady” came to my school to speak to the students. at one point, she was talking about frying food, and then, inexplicably, she started talking about some strangely named family of people that i could only surmise...

po’ boy noun (also: po-boy) i mentioned my disillusionment with this in my original new orleans post (february 10, 2009). to paraphrase, i had imagined a po’ boy as something really unique and possibly cajun-y only to discover that it’s just the...

second line noun a second line is a small parade generally comprised of a brass band and anyone willing to walk along with it. you can be just sitting in your house, minding your business on a tuesday afternoon, and one of these ramshackle affairs...