Brett Martin

It is super sketchy that Clerk of Court Lombard gave folks from his office working polling places lanyards with his name on them and badges with his name and face.

Surprised to see all the election workers at my polling place wearing their badges on Darren Lombard lanyards. (Unwittingly, in many cases, it seems)

I never heard this before and love it more than anything.

Southlands - Issue No. 2 - Contributor Guidelines.docx Issue No. 2 Pitch Guide Theme: PUBLIC / PRIVATE Updated: October 10, 2025 What is Southlands? Southlands is a new print journal that explores the diverse ways Southerners connect with the natural wo...

With Southlands Issue No. 01 getting set to ship next week -- it's time to start thinking about the next issue! See pitch guidelines here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Correct.

Hot muffuletta or cold?

I immediately thought of six questions about sandwiches. :(

Won’t find out this year.

The Cubs are the Yankees in Mets drag.

Why Arguments About Free Speech Don’t Apply to the Riyadh Comedy Festival Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others have framed their participation as a matter of open expression. Yet they’re maddeningly vague about how much dissent is possible in Saudi Arabia.

"It’s fair to wonder if the Riyadh Comedy Festival will result in American values being exported or vice versa."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/a...

There’s a New Orleans mayoral forum tonight focused on the city’s music economy. Hosted by Louisiana Music Partners, MaCCNO and The Recording Academy. It’s streaming on YouTube at 7 pm: m.youtube.com/live/Llvrdp0...

What?

Well if I ain't a snail's turd! It's an email from old uncle Foghorn Leghorn, and he's gone all cattywampus and set down my voter info somewhere and it's gone and walked off! No amount of shaking the overalls upside down and looking in the sock drawer will turn it up!

Oh, wait, here it is: 🖕

There are worse ways to be remembered.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

Smoked Fish Czar www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

Email subject line: How Old School Listings Are Making A Comeback

Time-Outers assemble!

I lied.

Tomorrow is the last day for New Orleans musicians to submit their work to NOLA Library's Crescent City Sounds. $250 honorarium.
crescentcitysounds.org/submit

How?

Once more, for the Sunday readers.

A piece of endive, wrapping some tofu.

🎵 Endiiiiiiiiiiive, will wrap up tofuuuuuuuuu. 🎵

If they learn how now, maybe they'll do it later with your novel!

I don't care much about this particular text, but the idea that anybody is engaging this passionately with any whole thing that somebody makes—and taking instruction on how to do it thoughtfully and well—should please us all.

This is what used to be called listening to a new album. I love it.

On brand.

Fried calamari and a white pie.

Go to Denino’s and count yourself lucky.

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Remembering how alien and ominous "homeland" sounded when Bush first started using it, along with the premonition that it would become normalized once codified in a Department.