Welcome to the reading room. Slip off your shoes, slide on your favorite smoking jacket and light up ye old pipe and enjoy. Here you can see the works that I have posted so far. Check back to see if I have been up to anything else.
If you see something here that you like so much you want to rip it off, don't!! Ask my permission and we can arrange something. In other words: No Reproduction Without Written Consent from Nick Pittman.
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Third Opinion, it's good for bones! I used to have a column. It ran for a year. It told of my faux governor's campaign. It criticized everything and everyone. It told of injustice. It received high marks in an editorial contest. But now, it is no more. Dig through its remains. I don't make the rules.
Newer Stuff:
Recalling Gov. Blanco.
Zydeco DVD � From La La to Zydeco � footage of Clifton Chenier, Boozoo, etc.
Leap Studios/(the) Frames of Reference
Hurricane Rita hits Erath
From the vaults:
Last Call Put that in your coiff and fluff it � Frigg A-Go-Go is a Go-Go-Gone.
Swamp Logic Drew Landry gets a year older, but he ain't slowing down.
These Colors Bleed Kody Chamberlain's work � in comic books � ooze quality.
Sharks Among Sheep Modern Day Lomaxes
The Genius of Idiocy Don't let Told By An Idiot fool you.
His Unlce's Nephew Craig Futch helps preserve his unlce's legacy, with a little help from his friends.
Cedric Watson Creole fiddlin'
MattRock & The PowerBoxx Hooktacular alt. pop
Risin' Outlaw Mike Dean is the real country real deal
Obey! No one told you you could listen to Bimora
Riding in a Van with VOMA No boudin for you!
'Redemption Song' Horace Trahan: singer of regional hit song about big butt women; former pot head; former savior of Cajun music; former convert to Zydeco; Bob Marley fan; and newly converted hardcore Christian.
Johnny Rebel Speaks Also published in Gambit Whew! This one I had thrust upon me by my editor. It is a tale of a local man, told with his consent for the VERY first time, who 30 years ago recorded what would become segregationist and white power anthems. We were criticized for running it. People said we obviously supported him and shared his point of view. We said it is important to let you know what is out there and that we must shine the light on the cockroaches. I recieved hate mail from all spectrums: black, white, white power, etc. You judge for yourself.
Behind The LA Phantoms Rock 'n' Roll, hoochie coo.
Endings and Beginnings I can't relate how awesome this band is. They are not of this world. All bow before The Object at The End of History.
The Road to Recovery Scott H. Biram cheated death and lived to sing about.
Living in a Box Why does Junior spend so much time at the storage space?
Many More Roads to Ramble On the road again, Joshua Clegg Caffery and his merry band of minstrels can't wait to get back on the road again. Not really anything to do with the story but I like saying it.
Ray Abshire: Past. Present & Future
Such A Broken Heart Even good time Rex gets the blues.
Texas Chain Music Massacre Coverage of the SXSW 2004 ... over run by zombies ... send help ...
Cajun To Creole to back Again Eunice kids make New Orleans Creole
Instant Middlin' Fair to Middlin' and pals
The boy who went to California returns not just a man, but ... a director. Mike Miley doesn't fall into Hollywood cliches, no matter how hard I try.
This just in ... Waht do you get when you introduce Cajun music to Scandinavia? Cajun du Nord
Same Difference Ashley Ewing wants you to vote no on Amendment One
The Return of The Atomic Age An old favorite of the young rock scene returns for one night.
South by Southwest My coverage of the 2003 SXSW Music Conference.
Digital Grass Roots Fed up with not getting heard, musicains and fans take to the web.
Heir Unapparent Who will wear the Cajun music crown?
Take Me to The River, Baby Here's one I wrote about a local band and their adventures in not being a blues band.
Victims, Aren't We All? Victim of Modern Age fizzled out. recently they reformed with a new drummer and are doing fine in lunch lady land.
MP3.GONE What's a band to do when their marketing tool goes down the drain?
A Playboy's Life Steve Riley: The Man, The Myth, The Interview.
Fifty-Three and Still Swinging Codgers still got it.
Something Old, Something New - I never really liked the headline and was a little rushed on the story, but I think it turned out just dandy. It's about a local record store that opened up a live music venue to help it stay affloat in the Age of Downloads. Sadly, it is one of the few stores in town that is not a chain. Even sadder is the fact that our town is supposedly known for its music.
Toys out the Attic Toys Music Center returns to the live music game.
Crossing the Tracks Here's one that almost made it on the cover because but lost out to our yearly Best Dressed feature. It is about a music series in Lafayette.
A Fortune Most Irie! local reggae fest moves to September.
CULTURE!
Not Another McMovie EXTRA! EXTRA! Film makers care about culture!
Keep on Foosin' Enter the Foos Ball.
Reeling in The Years A child star returns to where he became a reluctant almost movie star.
Ribbed for Your Pleasure Barbecue across the area meets with my ever expanding mid section.
Too Fast For Love Not an orgy, it is speed dating
Black 'n' Blue Inc.- No, it's not a story about ink pens ... its a tale of how two wreslting junkies started their own federation after a few years of being a staple on the local access channel.
YOU AIN'T FROM HERE!
These are from a series I do called The Out of Towners about big name acts coming to town.
Tapping Out A Living Four Words: Lord. Of. The. Dance.
Toby Keith Jingoism or Patriotism?
Mutants of Jazz Mu'tet
PEOPLE!
'I'm Here for the Car'- When I started on this one I hoped it would involve more gun play, but sadly enough it didn't. Still, people said they liked this tale of a day in the life of a local couple making their living as repo agents.
In The Clearing Stands a Boxer - Here's an Inside piece I did on a local boxer beating the tar out of everyone who dares to get in the ring with him.
BIZ!
NEWS?
Code Pink & Blue This piece grew out of a survey published in Child magazine. I caught some hell when the locals hospitals didn't measure up.
The Threat of a Threat When there was a anthrax threat, were we ready for it? How much did it cost?
