tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55249610024027977742024-03-14T01:13:05.916-05:00Moondog MatineeNew Orleans: "Where there are no celebrities, just your friends."Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-66052854765881683552009-02-26T16:25:00.000-06:002009-02-26T16:26:15.138-06:00FarewellI lied; there will only be one Mardi Gras Installment.The time has come for me to move on from the blog. It's been fun, but I need to concentrate on other writing projects. Thank you for reading. Peace.Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-52659936180901630302009-02-26T10:12:00.006-06:002009-02-26T11:26:43.588-06:00Mardi Gras Chronicle Installment One: MusesPre-Mardi Gras Weekend (Sat, Sun, Mon, Fat Tues), there were a handful of parades I attended. Krewe de Vieux in the French Quarter on Saturday, February 7, in throwback style with lots of costumed paraders on foot, smaller floats, and raunchy satire ("Stimulus Package," "Stocks and Bondage"), celebrated by me and Betsy and Ellis, as we indulged in our own shout-out to the past (passing around aKate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-39533566542255189612009-02-20T14:41:00.000-06:002009-02-20T14:42:30.576-06:00From Zulu to ObamaGet President Obama his coconut! http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/obamas_custompainted_zulu_coco.htmKate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-3804196481978250122009-02-19T13:33:00.000-06:002009-02-19T13:33:32.426-06:00On Wanting All the MusicSomebody please school me in how to download Bit Torrents!I want all the music. Maybe I won't even listen to all of it. There will be duds but I will know they are duds. For the record, I'll have all the records. In an age when you can have it all, why suffer from anxiety about missing spaces in your Itunes library? It's a masculine trait, really, the need to know all the stuff, boast the Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-57619262365540715022009-02-18T13:37:00.006-06:002009-02-18T15:01:09.851-06:00Aretha Out, Neil Young InI've never understood the fascination with Neil Young. He can turn a man into a love-struck boy. When they hear his clear high pitch, they're lured as though by the pied piper, by promises of immortality and eternal boyhood that instead end up in a coke-hole. He even kind of looks like a child-molester, now that I think of it. And there's his last name. Its not just eternal boyhood these Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-39678769387012169642009-02-17T12:30:00.001-06:002009-02-17T12:30:44.455-06:00Flossing in the CarWhat's the verdict?Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-58102744072106116672009-02-17T12:26:00.004-06:002009-02-17T12:30:22.628-06:00Laptops in the SunSince the beginning of college, I've pondered why they've never been able to design a setting on laptops that would enable you to see the screen outside on a sunny day. Why even ask such a question? Imagine your favorite grassy knoll, covered by people on their laptops beneath a hazy wireless orb. It would be an abomination. Technology really does make us want it all, even when it don't make Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-2215063409371359142009-02-16T13:42:00.011-06:002009-02-16T14:37:23.890-06:00On Catching On LateBecause I can no longer watch, I am now Reading the Sopranos, edited by David Lavery. It's a collection of critical essays about the show, written by academics in Film Studies and contributors to journals of TV and Film Studies, etc. My favorite essays so far have been "What Has Carmela Ever Done for Feminism? Carmela Soprano and the Post-Feminist Dilemma," by Janet McCabe and Kim Akass, (Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-33304020510112454672009-02-16T12:30:00.005-06:002009-02-16T13:38:26.045-06:00Meet Kate the BikeI finally joined my fellow urban green youth and bought a bike. She's a cruiser, which I think means she has no gears, pedal brakes, and wide old-lady handle bars. I can ride slowly with a crazed look like in a horror movie set in the suburbs. Or I can speed away until my leg muscles ache, because my bike is set at just the right resistance. This will be my first Mardi Gras with a bike, whichKate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-23707886914036045282009-02-13T15:17:00.002-06:002009-02-13T15:19:41.856-06:00OCD as a StrategyFrom now on, I will sleep literally eight hours every night; no more, no less. If I go to bed at 12:29, then I will rise at 8:29. If I set the alarm, and then go brush my teeth, I will have to check the clock and adjust my wake-up time by the minutes just elapsed. This way, I will officially literally exactly have had the adequate hours of sleep you're supposed to have to be a productive, Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-8268106050429986312009-02-13T14:39:00.002-06:002009-02-13T14:39:43.278-06:00Moondog MatineeLook out, my blog just realized itself. Expect shows daily, or your money back!Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-84930770721600771722009-02-13T12:45:00.005-06:002009-02-16T14:12:11.069-06:00Netflix Pits Housemates Against Each OtherEver notice that you and your housemate hardly ever receive shipments on the same day? You'll be eagerly awaiting discs 3 and 4 of some belated series, rush to the mailbox, only to see Jude Matthews's name printed on the cheap red paper slips. This is intentional, my friend. Different accounts, same address? The company pounces on such an opportunity, thinking, what better strategy to render Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-21128303106091802312009-02-13T12:01:00.008-06:002009-02-13T15:24:06.350-06:00Chris-to-pher Mol-ti-san-tiWhat would you say if I named my first-born Christopher Moltisanti? It's just something about the name itself that haunts me. The "Chr" that scrapes into a hiss; the "pher" that lapses into a grr; Moltisanti that sounds like a saint in molten effigy. (Kind of like the mafia initiation ritual, in which the initiate's finger is pricked and the blood smeared on the image of a saint, which is then Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-80226825709656238972009-02-13T12:00:00.001-06:002009-02-13T12:01:38.914-06:00On Resisting LabelsAfter recently watching Scorsese's Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, I assert, I am not a topical blogger.Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-79338672678134651542009-02-10T08:18:00.002-06:002009-02-10T08:19:06.426-06:00Buzzwords in the NewsStop talking about pork like it's a bad thing! Bacon tastes goood. Pork chops taste goood.Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-12420332888070972372009-02-05T23:02:00.002-06:002009-02-05T23:16:15.544-06:00New Orleans Mixed MetaphorsThe chocolate city that care forgot.Who Dat say they know gonna miss New Orleans?New Orleans: proud to call it the Big Easy. I went on down to the Audubon Zoo, and they all said "Yeah, ya right!"Make Good Times Not WarKate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-84025904994857209702009-02-05T18:18:00.005-06:002009-10-27T12:25:27.477-05:00An Ode to the Oyster<!--StartFragment--> Oyster, Ostra. Genus Ostrea. Of the House of Ostreidae. Ostracized? An academic father might muse aloud about origins, a far-away look in his eyes, before finishing his wine. There’s a book with a stately title, he would pursue later, licking thumb to better lift the pages, as the younger generation might peruse wikipedia, cautious not to learn too much. Now, Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-85742037744403995732009-01-30T09:00:00.002-06:002009-01-30T12:06:43.535-06:00A "Been-Had," a "Couldn't-Catch," or a "Never-Will-Be"I (we?) usually divide washed-up older people into the categories of "has-been," "burn-out," or "never-was." So how does one divy up the young lacking drive or potential, destined for the same fate? A "Been-had," a "Couldn't-catch," or a "Never-will-be."Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-46667941826579677502009-01-29T14:16:00.005-06:002009-01-29T15:23:19.613-06:00What's your Favorite Thoroughfare?When I slow up to wind a right at this weather vane of street signs, I know I'm going home. For Tony, it's taking the New Jersey Turnpike until the exit for Elizabeth, NJ. For me, it's swinging from Napoleon to S. Broad.Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-23547266367992196442009-01-29T13:02:00.014-06:002009-01-29T15:23:53.766-06:00Il Posto CafeI finally made it to Il Posto, a newish neighborhood cafe at the corner of Dryades and Cadiz. It has that New York appeal that is received as a novelty down here, keeping over-priced businesses like Stein's Deli in business (why not pay 12 bucks for a delicious "Sam" of hot pastrami, swiss, and cole slaw on rye with russian dressing, when it's the only place you can find one?) At Il Posto, Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-71218338139308674552009-01-29T12:52:00.003-06:002009-01-29T14:26:15.452-06:00Going to Canal Place to See a Movie by YourselfSneaking shots from 3rd floor of parking garage.Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-53865848649806467632009-01-29T12:38:00.003-06:002009-01-29T15:16:31.538-06:00The One-Way Conversation I Have Every Morning"Are you a cat?"Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-41128123099364096072009-01-27T13:08:00.002-06:002009-01-27T13:09:15.318-06:00Chris Mooney on the Colbert ReportNo, I am not using my brother to get more hits. Check it out:.cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-84879568603889782682009-01-26T09:53:00.004-06:002009-01-26T10:36:08.156-06:00Foodie at FifteenDo you think he would be friends with me?Another 2009 Bloggie nominee, Foodie at Fifteen is way ahead of the rest of us. Well, he's sixteen now, but he already makes duck confit, experiments with some cooking method known as "sous vide," and is a terrific writer to boot! Takes nice pictures of the food, too. Precocious young people are so much cooler than your standard adult. But most of the Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524961002402797774.post-9146256787358195622009-01-25T20:16:00.005-06:002009-01-26T10:05:16.160-06:00"Stuff White People Like" is Funny AgainI remember the first time I was sent the link. I immediately liked the title. I mean, white people love to self-parody because we are self-conscious about our dorkiness and embarrassed of our privilege. But after reading a few entries, I lost interest. I remember the post about white people liking Mos Def. My response to that post, and most of the others I read, was a small eruption of Kate Mooneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04030288374920087069noreply@blogger.com2