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The Saints Are Coming

WOOHOO!! Today I am finally recovered from Monday night's amazing, magical, electric, thrill ride. This is going to be one hell of a season and I have a ticket to watch the whole thing.

Saints Week Love

I  haven't written anything about the Saints this season yet. It was a decision I made intentionally. In years past I have been guilty of pre-season over exhuberance. This year I needed to remain calm in order to really see what shape the new team would take.

I'm now going to come out and say it, I think we have the best New Orleans Saints squad in years. Coach Payton has really put together some spectacular talent on offense and our defense is much tougher than I expected. The fact that we came from behind a 13-0 deficit and snatched victory from a team that soundly whipped us last year speaks volumes about the character and talent of this team.

I'm not expecting that we'll make the playoffs or anything, I don't want to be too overly optimistic. But I'm very, very pleased with the start of the season.

One week from today we take on the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football in the season home opener. It's also the first game in the Superdome since Katrina, the Saints and Falcons are both 2-0 and U2 will be performing at halftime. Does it really get any bigger than that? Yeah, it does, because it's also the New Orleans debut of Reggie Bush and Drew Brees.

This is probably the biggest game in Saints history and I'll be there with my homeboys. Excited doesn't even begin to describe how I feel. It's more like the fear and excitement that a pilgrim probably feels in anticipation of an intense religious experience. It's like coming home.

I know last year I tried to break up with them, but this year the Saints have renewed my Faith and my Love. That's right, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I LOVE THE SAINTS!

Who Dat?
Cha-Ching
No Mora Excuses
Who Let the Dogs Out?
Gotta Believe
Faith
Finally, A Bush We Can All Agree On
Be A Saint

Happy Birthday Shanna!

Today marks the 30th birthday of my beautiful and amazing wife, Shanna M. Montgomery.

Happy birthday baby! Thank you for sharing your life with me.

Coltrane 101

The NYTimes is running a great John Coltrane primer in anticipation of an upcoming retrospective at Lincoln Center. This is timely for me, as I've begun to heavily listen to Coltrane again recently. His work is my favorite of all the great Jazz composers.

Summer 2006 Inventory

Today marks the end of the Summer of 2006. Here's what I've been reading, watching, listening to, doing and consuming for the past 3 months:

Books
Triksta: Life & Death & New Orleans Rap
Heat by Bill Buford
The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
JPod by Douglas Coupland
O'Reilly CSS
O'Reilly HTML
O'Reilly Information Architecture
The Zen of CSS
Headrush Ajax
Headfirst HTML & CSS
CSS Mastery
DOM Scripting

Movies / DVDs / TV
Good Night & Good Luck
Capote
Platoon
The Fearless Freaks
Wild At Heart
The Drug Years
Entourage
Deadwood
An Inconvenient Truth
The Family Stone
The Squid and the Whale
The Da Vinci Code
Breaking All the Rules
Episode III
Ghostbusters
A Lot Like Love
The Family Stone
The Brothers Grimm
Nacho Libre
Memoirs of a Geisha
Munich
The Rules of Attraction
Storyville
Superman Returns
Pirates of the Carribean 2
2046
Underworld: Evolution
Howl's Moving Castle
The Secret Life of Dentists
Junebug
When the Levees Broke
Little Miss Sunshine
Dig!
Auto Focus
In Her Shoes
Syriana
Cronicas
The Illusionist

Music
Samba
Cibelle
Gnarls Barkley
Seu Jorge
Sergio Mendes
Manu Chao
Jorge Ben
Gilberto Gil
Caetano Veloso
Gal Costa
Alton Ellis
Zero 7 - The Garden
Juana Molina - Son
Thom Yorke
John Coltrane
Charles Mingus

Projects
Cox Ecommerce Administration
Web Marketing Efforts
Local and Lovin' It
Annunciation, LLC
LIPA Website
UNOP Website
Terra Diablo Website
Amren Homes Website

Events
Valentine Visit
Heather's Northshore b-day grill/fry
2006 FIFA World Cup
World Cup / TdF Kickoff Breakfast
World Cup Final French Brunch
Tour de France Excitement/Disappointment
Lucy & Justin's Couples Shower
Heather & Cass Going Away Dinner/Breakfast
Spike Lee "When the Levees Broke" Dinner & World Premiere Screening
Roadtrip to Austin & the Valentine-Smiths

Stuff
Black Beans & Rice with Tortillas
Boudin Balls
Stubb's Moppin' Sauce
Corn on the cob with lime, butter & chile
Fish Tacos
Chips & Fresh Salsa
Cebollitas (grilled green onions with salt & lime)
BBQ Chicken
Jalapeno Green Onion Cornbread
Grilled Redfish
Cole Slaw
Iced Tea
Dos Equis Special Lager
Mojitos
Caiparinhas
Margaritas
My awesome friends
Grilled Chicken (paprika & garlic)
Sukho Thai, adios. (Green Curry with Roti)
Riding Again
Brushing off my skills and putting them to use
Pho Tau Bay
Busy Busy Busy
The Salt Lick (Brisket, Elgin Sausage, Pork Ribs)
Las Manitas (Migas con Queso)
Guero's (Tacos al Carbon & Queso)
Herradura Silver
Mint Julips

New Warhol Documentary

PBS will air a new, four hour documentary biography of Andy Warhol on September 20-21. This gleaming NYT review has me very interested.