Launch

July 15, 2009, marks our official launch!  This is the grand day long foretold by the voodoo queens who ply their trade on the dusky side streets of the French Quarter. (Oh, those were drag queens? Sorry. Maybe it was foretold by the band Queen when you play “Bohemian Rhapsody” backwards.) Yes, this is when the swamp gas emanating from the vegetal decay wrought by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, Ike, Larry, Moe, and Curly, plus Boudreaux’s manure pile, rises to pollute the blogosphere!

Caution! If some search engine sent you  here while you were looking for a way to transform that armadillo you found on the side of the road into a sensational meal for your next family gathering, you are in for a disappointment. You won’t find much help in these pages. But since you did stumble upon us, why not waste a few minutes of your precious day and peruse our highly informative content? It’s sure to stimulate your vast intellect (here’s hoping flattery will work).  I guarantee it’ll make you more attractive to the opposite sex.

I’m sorry that this blog doesn’t look as cutesy as many of the other ones out there. I’m new to this whole blogging thing.

When I originally posted this announcement, I confessed that I did not know how to make the background of the post back on the home page grey and suggested that readers buy some spray paint to go over their screens while I tried to figure it out. And then, wham! When the post appeared it somehow miraculously had a grey background. I impressed even myself as to how quickly I could troubleshoot the problem. (I still can’t figure out for the life of me how I did it.) So, I offer my sincere apologies to all of those readers who dropped everything and ran out to buy spray paint.

I feel this whole thing is my responsibility, but I don’t have a clue as to what we can do with all of this grey paint that is now sitting around that you have no use for. So, I am going to do the only responsible thing and dump the issue into the laps of you, our visitors. Drop a comment if you will and suggest what might be a good use for the stuff. With teamwork, we can together come up with a creative solution to this problem.

That all being said, if learning to cook gumbo is still your quest, why not do like I did- join a gumbo cook-off team. (That’s a team consisting usually of four people where one person who knows what he’s doing does all the cooking while the other three stand around and drink beer.)

Not satisfied? Okay, I’ll answer one, but just one, question pertaining to gumbo. A lot of people ask, “Can I really cook a gumbo using an armadillo that I scraped off the road?”

Fortunately, the answer is yes; you just have to cook it for a long time. So, right after you are done reading all of our highly stimulating content, go and get started. I guarantee it will be ready for that Super Bowl party you’ve got planned for when the Saints finally get in it.