The photo is from yesterday in Mobile when a plane decided they much prefer a completely horizontal flight because vertical gives them vertigo...no one knows for sure what to call the line of "smoke" behind the plane...don't even go there unless you want a fight...
I saw an announcement of the New Orleans Jazz Festival lineup on Facebook, and the first comment was from a guy who wrote "Eh, not for everybody..." proving the point that no matter what you do in this world, you can never, ever please everyone.
The lineup includes the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Chris Stapleton, Crazy Horse, Vampire Weekend, Hozier, Widespread Panic, Bonnie Raitt, The Killers, Queen Latifah, Earth, Wind and Fire, Jimmy Buffett's band (in his honor) and many more top-name artists but this guy says "Eh," The festival runs April 25th through May 5th and I have definitely got my sights set on catching some of these acts...
Speaking of concerts, the Hangout Festival will feature crowd favorites Lana Del Ray and Cage the Elephant, as well as The Chainsmokers, Dominic Fike, Renee Rapp and Jessie Murph just to name a few. This festival is made all the more blissful by the idyllic setting of white sugar sand beaches, swimming pools and just being at the beach in general, listening to live music and enjoying the eats and drinks. Scheduled for May 17-19 the top-level packages usually sell out well in advance of the show. This festival offers a lot of choice beach packages that include digs on the beach, special access to food and drink areas, and shuttle transportation around the festival and beach. They also offer 3 day general admission and 3 day general admission Plus packages. People are still hungry for fun and entertainment since 2020 so it wouldn't be a surprise if this entire event sold out before May...
There's no better Bowl in the world to catch most of the potential NFL players in their college mode, than Reese's Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama on February 3, 2024. The Bowl announced that Tennessee Titans Assistant Head Coach/Defensive Line Coach Terrell Williams will head the American Team and New York Jets Defensive Coordinator Jeff Ulbrich will lead the National Team. Some of the accepted invites include Tennessee QB Joe Milton III, Georgia OC Sedrick Van Pran, Auburn DS Jaylin Simpson, Penn State Edge Adisa Isaac, North Carolina WR Devontez Walker and many, many more stellar college players from across the country. I believe tickets are still available so if you plan to go check in to it before the last minute...
Heavy metal classic band Judas Priest will be in Mobile following a European tour that concludes in Paris. In Mobile on May 12th at the Civic Center and something tells me this one will also sell out before the show date...
The Spot of Tea saga with the Board of Health continues, with the restaurant owner providing detailed updates on their Facebook page, to include board of heath scores ranging from 90 in November 2021 to 60 in January 2024...as the epic battle continues the owner has backed down from putting the place up for sale and says there could be a possible meeting with the BOE supervisors and staff. Meanwhile the restaurant appears to remain closed, bleeding money for lack of business, where it sits on the very best location you could hope for on Dauphin Street, right next to Cathedral Square...
Believe it or not Mardi Gras is in full swing already... Dauphin Island has their People's Parade tomorrow at 1:00 PM...and on Friday January 26th the Conde Cavaliers roll in downtown Mobile at 6:30 PM...I have spies attending these parades and bringing me back boxes of moon pies and beads with secret Mardi Gras society scribblings on them...
We had a very cold spell, then it warmed up for a day and the cold spell is coming back. Yankee weather, go home... remember last summer when it was 110 degrees? Ok, cold weather you can stick around a little longer...
If you don't promote yourself first, no one else will follow, so call it shameless self-promotion or whatever you want, somebody's got to sing your praises....I am "almost finished" with my next book, this one a "ghost story" set in Mobile...I finally came to appreciate that Mobile can, at certain times of the day or night be a classically scary place. I have a disclaimer in the front of the book: "To be read at night, alone, preferably in a large, old, creaky house...."
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