Today's Forbidden Link

Did you know that Tom Fitzmorris was once the editor of New Orleans Magazine?

I tell ya, it's true!

Also on the Forbidden Links front, Oyster brings us the welcome news that we are all now free to link to Gambit Weekly's website and blog almost completely un-frowned upon.

We will celebrate by sharing this fun Blog of New Orleans post with you which is mostly about politicians and their wangs.

Today's Forbidden Link

Exciting technology allows you to read all of New Orleans Magazine online without missing a single ad! It's like TiVo in reverse. I wonder if there will be any Volvo ads.

Varg on "Forbidden Links"

No quote.. just go read the post. (It will make Varg happy)

Meanwhile, today's forbidden link to New Orleans Magazine takes us to Nashville, Tennessee.

Nashville folks will be quick to remind you that the city is about more than country music. It is an intellectual center, the home of Vanderbilt University and the Frist museum. The Parthenon, a full-scale recreation of the Greek temple, underscores Nashville’s claim to being the “Athens of the South.” There is also justification in Nashville being called “Music City.” It is a recording industry for far more than just country.

Longtime readers of the Yellow Blog will recall that Nashville was where I was forced to "summer" in Aug-Sep 2005 while New Orleans was being drained of Federal Flood waters. It's also the site of my mother's recent unfortunate surgical misadventures (Mom's doing okay, btw... still on blood thinners... gonna keep an eye on it). Needless to say the "Athens of the South" is not among my favorite spots.

Are all the condos still ok?

Yes! Yes they are!

Bonus: Today's forbidden link to New Orleans Magazine may help you select yours.

Someone should clear him out

In today's forbidden link to (White) New Orleans Magazine, we find public television personality and Rex fetishist Errol Laborde authoring a "travel" piece which compares recent hurricane damage on the Alabama Gulf Coast to the effects of the Federal Flood on New Orleans thusly:

Recovery there has been amazing. Like in New Orleans, the storm cleared away things that probably needed to be cleared out anyway and now new structures are rising.

With all the crap people give Nagin and Blakely over the kleptotastic botched NOLA recovery/land grab extravaganza... I wonder how far any of that really gets without all this enthusiastic cheerleading from the gentry.

Oh I think I figured something out

Tim Couch (no not that Tim Couch.... although I gotta tell ya... Rep Couch looks a lot like crappy QB Couch) must have consulted with New Orleans Magazine over their "linking policy" because it's just that brilliant.