While walking through a cemetary in Lowell yesterday, I came across this unique monument:

I’d love to have such a monument when I pass…with the book being The Hobbit, and the dogs on the arms Max & Wolf. Just beautiful!

Mac Rebennack, more commonly known as Dr. John, The Night Tripper and his band, the Lower 9-11 (pronounced “nine, eleven”), features guitarist Reynard Poch, bassist David Barard, and drummer Herman “Roscoe” Ernest III and their swamp pop/blues/gospel/jazz/R & B/funk sound played at Boarding House Park in Lowell Thursday night. They were awesome, as usual! A few pictures:

The band

In this picture, he was talking about Hurricane Katrina, and the damage it did, and how New Orleans still wasn’t back to its “normal” self, that in fact it was looking like a third world country.

Caught his eye…

This weekend I got to see the rest of Spike Lee’s 4 part documentary, When The Levees Break. All I have to say is shame, shame on the government for trying to take the land away from those people in the 9th Ward. Shame on the insurance companies that won’t reimburse them for their losses. Shame on the people who said they’d searced all the houses and they didn’t, so that when folks came back home they found dead loved ones inside. Shame on folks who’ve lived where they wanted to live all their lives, who say, “Well, those people should be happy they were evacuated and have a nice place to stay now.”

Shame.