The Huck Upchuck

** Last Saturday I wondered about what happened with that fantabulous NPR radio program called Jazz Profiles . Today, I re-checked the web...

My better two-thirds (B-2/3) has her pottery kiln firing up as I write this and will once again be setting up shop at the Arts Market of New...

I'm practically incapacitated by a debilitating head cold, and so I haven't had the energy or will to think about putting up some po...

I've decided to set up a Blog posting category that I'm calling Random NOLA, which will feature a photo that I've taken from pla...

WTF? I absolutely love NPR's Jazz Profiles series. I gather that it ran orginally from 1995-2005, which should mean about 500 or so w...

Netflixing - The act of visiting Netflix.com and fishing around for a good movie to watch instantly on the PC. And this is what I am about ...

Oyster over at Your Right Hand Thief has put up a very interesting posting on the recent Atlantic article by Hua Hsu titled "The En...

Washington Post opinion columnist Charles Krauthammer's recent piece gives us yet another lesson in how far out of touch neo-cons are ...

Today is a great day for my country. I'm proud to have participated in and to be witness to this moment. God bless America. God bless P...

This is a riot! The GOP finally won a slim majority in the Tennessee State Legislature and were looking forward to having one of their own ...

I'm still alive. I'm still married. My kids are fed and shod. I guess that counts for something. Is it enough to say one survived ...

In Nell Nolan's social scene column in today's Times-Picayune , I noticed that Helena Moreno, erstwhile Democratic candidate for Lo...

I think I'm going to run this "Resume of a Democrat" thing as as series over the next two years when discussing Cao. I've...

One of the issues I've paid some attention to since the Presidential campaign has been the position of the candidates on Free Trade Agre...

As a Catholic, I am just sickened and appalled at the way the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in New Orleans, and in particular the Archbis...

Is it just me, or are any other Obama supporters feeling a bit jittery about the magnitude and scope of the stimulus package that's curr...

I was recently looking through some old papers and letters from my adolescent years and I came across a slew of correspondence from people w...

As you've probably noticed, blogging at The Huck Upchuck has been light. I decided to take a holiday break from it. I'll get back ...

Last week, a good friend of the family, and a long-standing member of my wife's church, Frank "Eddie" Durham passed away afte...

"I didn't compromise my soul to be a popular guy." George Bush . Now, let's unpack this ten word sentence, because it sure...