NOrleansRedbone

NBA all star weekend Feb. 15th, 16th, 17th
New Orleans, LA











"Soul is waterproof."













Halloween nola style







I'm sure it's me, and only 1 other person who will find this funny. I can't get enough of it. I'm about to get carried away..............






































































































And when you go out those doors,
don't stop to think about the way you feel,
think about what you know.
Because when you stop to think about the way you feel,
you doubt what you know,
And when you doubt what you know,
you assume you don't know it.
Why?
because you don't act on it.
Once you know what you know,
YOU ACT ON IT!






In Memory of Ruby Sorapuru LaMothe DeLaMour
July 13, 1910 to July 31, 2007
"Mama Ruby" Our grandmother
We will love and miss you always, our angel.

Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush.
Of quiet white doves in circled flight,
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
I tell you, Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there, I did not die.


















Hey, this is my first easter back home since the "big K." im looking for a bunny or something to put up, but in the mean time, Happy Easter and see you on the lakefront (finally.)






Happy Mardi Gras
2007










It's that time of year again:
Grambling State Tigers vs. Southern University A&M
Bayou Classic 2006:::Louisiana Superdome
"Back Home in our Dome"
Saturday November 25, 2006
After Party: Canal & Bourbon streets!!!!!!!!!!









first things first...
The pic at the bottom is my mother 25 years ago holding me. she is happily married, she cannot halla.




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....when the Saints go marching in.....

FALCONS vs. SAINTS
Monday, Sep 25
7:30 p.m. CT
Louisiana Superdome: New Orleans, LA.






Hey BP!
One thing on my mind I'm going to talk about before we get things started.
I've noticed alot of "New Orleans" people here in Montgomery and Birmingham. Note to them: You don't run Alabama. Come on now. How are you going to go into someone else city and try to run it? You know we wouldn't play that in New Orleans.
p.s.
This goes for the Nola people in Houston and Atl too. Especially houston. They want ya'll outta there!! Stop acting up, you are no longer in the 3rd, 7th or 9th ward(s)...and you will never run things in another city. Don't embarrass "us" anymore than you already have.




One more thing to the people of all the cities who are taking in victims of hurricane katrina::
Have a little more patience. You don't go from having 9 feet of water in your house, losing everything you ever owned, including your job, be seperated from your family, friends and neighbors and think that your life will be normal in 10 months. Doesn't work. People are still going through it like Katrina happened last month. For Alot of people it still feels like we went through it last month. It is still on our minds EVERYDAY when we wake up and every night before we go to bed. Even though a large part of New Orleans was spared from the flood waters, alot of neighborhoods were not so lucky. Imagine rebuilding your city. It's hard enough rebuilding a house or a neighborhood, but an Entire city? The people of New Orleans will be recovering for many years to come. Next time you get frustrated with someone from nola (and I do too) acting a %#&@$!, remember to have more patience with them and understand the task thats ahead..... We are rebuilding EVERY part of our lives.



p.s.
I really like it here in Montgomery (and I like Bham alot too! : ) The stereotype about "Alabama" is all wrong. This is a cool city, and my family and I have been treated like royalty since we moved here, but.... there is really NO PLACE LIKE HOME! Anyone from New Orleans feeling homesick, read "You know you're from New Orleans when....." Enjoy.
Oh, and one more thing....I see alot of you are moving back to Nola after saying you never will. I guess you see now from living in other cities that there is no place in the world like New Orleans, and there is no place like home.



Moving on.......






"You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you got and remember what you had. always forgive, but never forget. learn from your mistakes, but never regret. times change, things go wrong, just remember...life goes on!"

--Going home soon!







Here`s a great site to help support the rebuilding of New Orleans.

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Champions Creed:
If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don`t
If you like to win but think you can`t
It`s almost a cinch you won`t.

If you think you`ll lose, you`ve lost
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a person`s will
It`s all in your state of mind.

Think big and your deeds will grow
Think small and you`ll fall behind
Think that you can and you will
It`s all in your state of mind.

If you think you`re outclassed, you are
You`ve got to think high to rise
You`ve got to be sure of yourself
Before you can win the prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the one who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.








You know you`re a katrina evacuee when...



1. your parents are in houston, your grandmother is somewhere in alabama, your cousins are in atl, your neighbors are spread out between 10 different states and you are somewhere between your fema trailer, baton rouge and your house in nola. Katrina, you B^tch.


2. you respond "none" to the blanks for address, phone number and occupation on questionnaires.


3. pre-k has nothing to do with the year before kindergarten.

4. your bank, dry cleaner and grocery store are closed, but your bar is open.

5. you know what a double evacuee is (thanks Rita)

6. you get sick of people from Baton Rouge tell you how bad the traffic is now. You remind them that "B.R." traffic was terrible before there were 200k more peoplein town.

7. you return to your home and find that all of your belongings fit into 2 boxes.

8.you were looking for your house on TV during the CNN coverage of Hurricane Katrina


9.you now have "boo`s" in different area codes


10. you know New Orleans will never be the same, but you are hoping deep down it gets a little better.


11. your neighbor has hiked his house up 12 ft. in the air. (seriously) He doesn`t want water, and he won`t get it. check out Robert E. Lee Blvd. (in gentilly) take your camera.

12. You have at least one t-shirt showing that you survived Katrina, even if your house didn`t.

13. you realize, "this too shall pass."

14. you know what it truely means to miss New Orleans.




Random shots of New Orleans and surrounding areas.




1-18-06
Just returned to alabama from new orleans. this trip back home, like all others, was a constant reminder of where i need to be. even though there were 20 cars in line at any given time in the rally`s line, or mexicans running you over in walmart, it is still home. I now call it lil york. like a little version of one of my favorite places, nyc. everyone is for themselves. no blinkers, they will not let you over, just take it. no crossing at the mall entrances, they will knock you down and laugh at you (like my mom says) now thats the new orleans I know and love lol. it`s not all bad. the culture is back, (if it ever left) the music and best food on earth is back. what wouldnew orleans be without this?


You know you are from New Orleans when....
1. you get on a bus marked "Cemeteries" and don`t think twice.

2. catching "crabs" makes you smile.

3. you can cross 2 lanes of heavytraffic and U-turn through a neutral ground while avoiding 2 joggers and a streetcar, then fit into the oncoming traffic flow while never touching the brake.

4. you know about 3 or 4 different ways to get to and from the east
without getting on I-10.

5.Someone asks you where your from and you reply 9th ward, Uptown, the
East, Gentilly, downtown or the westbank.

6. the smell of a crawfish boil turns you on more than Chanel No. 5

7.You know the lake was the hangout spot for everything

8. when you speak with a tourist he ask "are you from Brooklyn?"

9. you move somewhere else and you feel like you are from OZ and moved to Kansas.

10. The brown bag you take to the Saints game ain`t yo lunch.

11. Someone has ever told you that you look like your from the 7th Ward

12.your high school had at least one dance at a hotel on Canal Street

13. you are not scared when someone wants to ax you {something}

14. you are asked to recite the holy trinity and you reply..."bell peppers, onions, celery."

15.you believe purple, green and gold look good together.

16. your last name isn`t pronounced the way it`s spelled.

17. you like your rice and your politics dirty.

18. no matter where else in the world you go, you are always disappointed with the food.

19. your love one dies and you book a jazz funeral before you call the coroner.

20. Being in a jam at Tulane and Broad doesn`t involve traffic.

21. you call tomato sauce "red gravy"

22. you never show your "pretties" at mardi gras.

23. you hate when tourist say "Nawlins". you know it`s
"New Awlins".

24. if the humidity is below 90%, it`s a "good" hair day.

25. you have more than 3 receipes for Gumbo.

26. when you refer to geographical location, "way up north" you are referring to Shreveport, Little rock or Memphis, "where it really gets cold."

27. even your highschool cafeteria made good Gumbo.

28. you`ve ever uttered the words, "how`s ya mama and nem" and replied "dey fine."

29. when giving directions, you use "uptown", "downtown", "across the river" and "lakefront."

30. you know the Westbank has nothing to do with Israel or the middle east.

31. your ancestors are buried 6 ft. above the ground, instead of 6ft below.

32.you know that Canal and Bourbon are always packed after Battle of
the Bands and Essence Fest...And you were more than likely there.

33. you take a bite of 5-alarm chilli and reach for the hot sauce.

34. the four seasons in your calendar year are "crawfish, shrimp, crab and kingcake."

35.If you caught the bus after school, you know that Canal St. was the hotspot and the place to see a good fight.

36. you don`t learn until highschool that mardi gras is not a national holiday.

37.you hit up the drive-thru daquiri shop on Chef or Crowder cuzyou probably wouldn`t get ID`d.

38. you could tell what part of the city somebody lived in by the first 3 digits of their phone number.

39. when out of town you stop and ask someone where`s the nearest drive-thru daiquiri shop, and they look at you like you have 3 heads.

40. you have flood insurance.

41. you consider a bloody mary a "light" breakfast.

42. you reply to any and everything about life here with "only in New Orleans."

43. you think "drinking water" when you look at the mississippi... but you wouldn`t dare.

44. you eat sno-balls instead of throwing them.

45. you know Mardi Gras really goes down on Claiborne under the bridge,
not on Bourbon.

46. Nothing shocks you. Period. Ever.

47. You cringe everytime you hear an actor with a southern accent in a "New Orleans-based" movie.

48.you know if somebody dies, there will be a secondline.

49. your one martini lunch turns into a 5 bloody mary afternoon...and you keep your job.

50. you take the Huey P. Long Bridge to get from the Westbank to the city cuz you don`t want to pay that dollar on the Crescent City Connection.

51. you know the "X" in Xavier takes a "Z" sound. (It`s not
X-Xavier kids.)

52. you have the opening date to every sno-ball stand in your day planner.

53. you went to the House of Blues on Thursday nite for college nite.

54. you have a special set of well broken in shoes you refer to as your "French Quarter shoes."

55. you consider garbage cans a legal step in protecting a parking space on a public street.

56.you drive your car up on the neutral ground if it rains steadily and heavily for more than 2 hours.

57.you can`t find Camellia`s Red Beans or creole seasoning anywhere else but New Orleans and surrounding cities.

58. you have gained 10-15 pounds permantley, but you don`t care anymore.

59. your town is low on the education chart, high on the obesity chart, but you don`t care because you`re No. 1 on the party chart.

60.you Don`t eat everybodies gumbo or potato salad.

61.you meet your girlfriend`s (or boyfriend`s) mother or grandmother and they ask, "Who`s your family?" or "Is your family from the 7th Ward?"

62.you went to the Lakefront on Easter Sunday.

63.you used to plot your escape route when you hung out in the parking lot at Club Whispers on
Sunday (in case they started shooting.)

64. you consider having a good meal as your birth right.

65. you got caught having sex on the Lakefront by Levee Board Police.

66. the first thing you do every morning is pick up the Times Picayune obit section to see who died inna papah (paper)

67. your first words were "throw me something mista" and your first drink was from a go- cup.

68.you end each sentence with "yeah" or "ya heard me?"..EX: "Its hot out here yeah." or.."Holla at cho` boy, ya heard me?"

69. you go to sleep friday evening before yougo out friday night.

70.you ever went to a block party

71. you never leave your house before midnight to go clubbin.

72. you spend a night passed out drunk on your front lawn and no one calls either the cops or the ambulance.

73. you remember that manager (with the jheri curl) at the Circle Food
Store that carried a gun on his waist at work.

74. You can consistently be the 2nd or 3rd person to run a redlight.

75. cutting through the housing projects in order to get tothe french quarter faster doesn`t seem abnormal to you.

76. you get your brake tag from the same place you get your windows tinted.

77. you think that breeze from a flying roach feels good on a hot summer night.

78. your idea of health food is a baked potato, instead of fries with your seafood platter.

79. you are going through customs and the agent ask you where you are from and reply "Gentilly."

80. you look forward to getting "smashed" by a hurricane.

81. you know its "ask" but you purposely say "ax"

82. you "run" when you see the "do not walk" flashing sign at the intersection.

83. you know how many people can "legally" run the red light.

84. you have no idea what a turn signal is or how to properly use it.

85. you say "boo" as a term of endearment and not to frighten someone.

86. you know where you got them shoes.

87. you don`t worry when you see ships riding higher in the Mississippi than your house.

88. you`ve never set foot in a "liquor store" because you can buy vodka at the gas station using your shell card.

...And thats how we do it in
New Awlins...dawlin.





Dear God,
grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the Courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Amen