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Looka! · 1W ago

Be honest

I’m still in a bit of a dry spell / writer’s block / lazy bastard / whatever period (I’m working on something now, I swear!), but in the meantime, before I get back to cocktails, food, music, New Orleans and whatever else, here’s something to chew on. I don’t know who these folks are or [...]

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Looka! · 1M ago

RIP, RMS Titanic

The RMS Titanic sank exactly 100 years ago this moment, 0518 GMT, April 15, 1912 (9:18pm Pacific Time, April 14). One thousand, five hundred eighteen were lost. The last Morse code transmission from the Titanic’s radio room, sent by Jack Phillips, cut off abruptly when the ship lost power. V… V… SOS

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Looka! · 2M ago

Ordinary Man

One of my favorite Christy Moore songs (written by Peter Hames), which seems particularly timely these days, I’m sad to say. I’m an ordinary man, nothin’ special, nothin’ grand, I’ve had to work for everything I own. Well I never asked for a lot, I was happy with what I got, Enough to keep my [...]

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Looka! · 3M ago

New York City, Clover Club & the New York Sour

New York, just like I pictured it! Skyscrapers, and … everything. Last December Wesly and I finally, FINALLY went to New York, as we had been wanting and threatening to do for years. I wish I had collected a dollar for every time a friend of ours said, “WHAT?! YOU guys have never been to [...]

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Looka! · 3M ago

Happy Mardi Gras!

If you’re not in New Orleans, you are (like me, unfortunately) in the wrong place. Sigh. Maybe next year. Back to the Indians in a bit … in the meantime, if you don’t know them already, you need to learn the four primary Mardi Gras songs: Professor Longhair, “Go to the Mardi Gras” (audio only) [...]

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Looka! · 3M ago

Ragusa Brothers King Cakes 2012, Nos. 4-6

Things are getting heated in the Ragusa family … Uh oh … will we see Vincent before Mardi Gras Day? Oh, and Happy Lundi Gras! Me, I’m havin’ red beans ‘n rice for dinner, and king cake for dessert. With all due apologies to Larry Ragusa, it will not come with a thin layer of [...]

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Looka! · 4M ago

Ragusa Brothers King Cakes 2012, No. 3

Boy, that Marie Ragusa … You go, Angelina! The scary thing is … I might just want one of the King Cake flavors Larry mentioned. © Chuck for Looka!, 2012. | Permalink | 2 comments | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

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Looka! · 4M ago

Story time with Mickey D

This morning as I was reading the news I was greeted by this chuckle-inducing headline: #McDStories, McDonald’s Twitter Hashtag Promotion, Goes Horribly Wrong As with most people I love a good PR FAIL story, and this one’s a doozy. Last Wednesday McDonald’s sent out two tweets on their Twitter feed

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Looka! · 4M ago

Ragusa Brothers King Cakes 2012, No. 2

After that little teaser, we finally get going into Carnival season with some King Cakes! Get ready for Larry Ragusa’s latest King Cake special … that is, if Marie lets it out of the door. Uh oh, Marie doesn’t look happy. I suspect we’ll be seeing Vincent soon. And then there’s Angelina … as my [...

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Looka! · 4M ago

Shit Bartenders Mixologists Say

Okay, before anyone gets their drawers in a wad … it’s a perfectly good word, and I’m not going to bowdlerize it with asterisks or substitute something* like “shoot.” If I did your mind would still fill in the actual word; as George Carlin wisely said, “‘Shoot’ is ‘shit’ with two ‘O’s.” Now … let’s

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