http://kevinomara.com/blog Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:54:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At my favorite po-boy joint, Parkway Bakery and Tavern, they take your order at the counter and you go find a table. Later they call out your name over their speaker system - "Dave, pick up" - and you go get your food and you eat it. Well, ... http://kevinomara.com/blog/2010/03/08/what/ If you have the time, please read until the end. A question for you is waiting there. I can't really put the question down without explanation, though. I apologize in advance - by necessity the following is going to be kind of rambling. I've been trying to put ... http://kevinomara.com/blog/2010/02/24/a-tour-proposed/ Yesterday was one of the most amazing and intense experiences I've ever had in New Orleans and I feel like I have to write about it. Not so that I can brag, and not so that I can pretend I'm some sort of Voice of New Orleans (Professional Blogger ... http://kevinomara.com/blog/2010/02/08/i-wish-you-could-have-been-with-me/ I was discussing with friends the other day how I probably only know the town Waukegan, Illinois because it's referenced in a Tom Waits song. Then of course the discussion led to how to create a Tom Waits song, and how they inevitably involve the name of a town or ... http://kevinomara.com/blog/2010/02/06/cities-mentioned-in-tom-waits-songs/ Hey, NOLA people and people interested in NOLA: As you well know this city is a crazy bundle of crossed-up mishmash streets that start and end in unlikely places and probably drive the cartographers mad. I know it's frustrating to me to make four right turns and not end up ... http://kevinomara.com/blog/2010/01/20/new-orleans-neighborhoods-map/ You may remember - or you may not, it's been a while - that back in April of 2009 I wrote an entry on a curious liquor, Ojen. If you don't want to read the whole thing the short version is as follows: Ojen (pronounced OH-hen) is an anise-flavored liquor ... http://kevinomara.com/blog/2010/01/15/ojen-again/ I've mentioned before that I sometimes get images stuck in my head and can't relax until they're brought to life. This is the most recent one: I would love to tell you why one day I ended up with the idea of hair coming out of a faucet, and then ... http://kevinomara.com/blog/2009/12/07/a-little-more-blood-please/ So I know I said I was done taking pictures of my rabbit but, well, see, last night I went to drop him off with his new parents, and we ended up going over to The Rendezvous, and things got a little crazy. He decided to wear his tiny little rabbit ... http://kevinomara.com/blog/2009/11/13/a-fond-farewell/ I thought that perhaps I'd talk a little bit about my horrid sneakbeast rabbit. I know I said a little bit about him in my last blog entry but here are some more words: Somewhere over a year ago I got the idea that I should take a picture ... http://kevinomara.com/blog/2009/11/10/anatomy-of-a-photo-iv/ I feel very accomplished after my quick vacation to Tennessee because I got a picture finalized that had been in my head for well over a year. It even turned out somewhere near 90% of how I had envisioned it so long ago. I'm very pleased. Oh, ... http://kevinomara.com/blog/2009/09/30/satisfaction/