Saturday, January 27, 2007

Next year

I'd watched the first part of the game at home with a couple of friends -- we heard horns playing just before the end of the first quarter and for a second thought it was coming from the television, but it turned out to be a second-line parade happening just outside. A crowd of 40-50 people, 98.2 percent of them dressed in Saints paraphernalia, had stopped to dance to the 8- or 9-piece brass band.

Read the rest of Culture Gulf's account of the last game of the Saints' season here...

As a bonus, the entry includes a Trombone Shorty/Michelle Shocked MP3. What I'd really like to hear is the street-brass-funked version of "Crazy" she describes. But that, of course, is an only-in-New Orleans thing...