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New Orleans & Nine Lives
I just finished reading a fascinating book that I couldn’t put down, Nine Lives by Dan Baum. It was my choice and I hosted my book group last week to discuss it. The book reads like fiction but it is real life. For a writer who is not a native New Orleanian and who was on assignment after Hurricane Katrina (or “The Storm” as natives say), he really captured what it is like to be from and to live in New Orleans. His profile of nine people: several who lived in the Ninth Ward, the wife of a famous Mardi Gras Indian, a prominent lawyer, to a transvestite in transition,…
Laptop Art
I’m a sucker for these trompe l’oeil laptop skins. I would love to carry around my box of pastels without getting messy.
Sand Music
This video showing Diego Stocco’s beach/sand music just shows that art is everywhere and can be created from many materials that surround us that we take for granted. It’s the artist who sees their possibilities: Click this link for Kick-Starting your Weekend with Chris Botti — some more relaxing music: Back into My Heart is the best: http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B0000CABGZ/ref=pd_krex_listen_dp_img?ie=UTF8&refTagSuffix=dp_img
