Lagniappe's Lair (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... Street have some sort of sound coming out of it. A welcome surprise was the piano player at Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop . Normally I go by this bar to show people who have never seen it because of it's history. Built in 1772--when America was still a collection of thirteen British colonies and Louisiana was a French possession--it was reputed to have been the front for pirate Jean Lafitte...
Scott Paul Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
What a week we had in New Orleans, my hometown! There is no other city like it…anywhere…and October is a perfect month to enjoy it. The weather is usually ideal, and the beautiful Uptown manses and French Quarter wrought-iron balconies lend themselves to creative and spooky Halloween displays. Since the city was home to voodoo priestess Marie Laveau, a watering hole for Pirate Jean Lafitte,...
Switched (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
... and file sharers from the Web. Piracy is obviously a problem, but an outright ban? Where's Jean Lafitte when you need him? [From: CNET ] Scientists at the French institute Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne have been developing an artificial IBM brain known as Blue Brain since 2005. Within two years, they actually hope to build a simulated rat brain and place it in a robot,...
Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Here's part one . Here's part two. This is Hugh Glass before. PART III: HUGH GLASS, RELUCTANT PIRATE This is my favorite bear attack story of all time. Hugh Glass was a hella grizzled frontiersman—"a sailor, a reluctant pirate with Jean Lafitte, and an honorary Pawnee"—whose hella-grizzledness helped him survive the most badass ordeal in the history of asses: Near...
Slog (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
This is Hugh Glass before. PART III: HUGH GLASS, RELUCTANT PIRATE This is my favorite bear attack story of all time. Hugh Glass was a hella grizzled frontiersman—"a sailor, a reluctant pirate with Jean Lafitte, and an honorary Pawnee"—whose hella-grizzledness helped him survive the most badass ordeal in the history of asses: Near the forks of the Grand River in...
Raging Gail (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
... to throw them a gimmie if they can prove that Fort Gilmer was authorized to defend Georgia from Jean Lafitte; lots of luck there…) In fact, the closest we get to pirates in Atlanta are the parts in GONE WITH THE WIND where Rhett Butler discusses his naval career as a blockade runner, moving his ships past the US Navy’s efforts to starve the CSA. It sorta counts, kinda, maybe… …not…...
