Random observations

• Jumping the gun?
  
  
  I took this picture last night (Sunday August 2) at Walgreens. I get tired of Summer too but looking forward to Halloween this early will just make the days seem to drag even more.



• Buy local
  
  
  
  The Rouses on Tchoupitoulas is selling these teddy bears dressed in paraphernalia from Uptown high schools. (This one obviously supports McMain.) There were also Cohen bears available. Does the Mid-City Rouses sell Warren Easton bears?



• I'll just come out and say that I don't like White Linen Night. I'm interested in art well enough and I certainly don't have anything against public street festivals. But this event always seems to be more about scenesterism than anything else.
  
  On the other hand, the participants who end up in the Quarter afterwards can do some entertaining shit. As we were on our way to Fahy's Saturday night, we encountered a young man dressed in his White Linen finest having an animated discussion with a woman we presumed to be his date. We wouldn't have stopped but the guy was kind of screaming, "YOU'RE WRONG! NO, YOU ARE WRONG! LISTEN TO ME I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!" Each "WRONG!" was punctuated by a turn and punch to the wall they were standing beside. "LOOK IN MY EYES I AM TELLING YOU YOU ARE WRONG!" (quick turn and uppercut delivered to wooden latticework) We decided to hover on the corner for a few moments, if only to determine what the poor girl could be so WRONG about.
  
  Turns out it was about directions. "NO, LISTEN! CANAL STREET IS THAT WAY!" (lifts presumably bruised hand to indicate Canal St.) "SATCHMO PARK IS THIS WAY!" (points bloody stump down Toulouse toward Rampart street supposedly in the direction of Armstrong Park.) And so my question here is this. "Satchmo Park"? What? I'll admit to a degree of unhipness but is that really a thing? Are the cool kids who have "flash-mob pillow fights" at douchey art parties taking it upon themselves to rename shit? Or is the seersucker panted angry fellow acting on his own accord?

Update (because it seems to fit with this post somehow): Meanwhile, dismembered bodies continue to behave strangely.