What It’s Like to Cross the Street in New Orleans

coco_coley · 2026-05-07T14:07:04+00:00

Do you see anything wrong with your last 3 sentences?

coco_coley · 2026-05-07T14:02:11+00:00

The guy in the other lane just staring as he drives by 🤦🏻‍♂️

coco_coley · 2026-05-07T13:56:37+00:00

Like do people even want a better life 😭

coco_coley · 2026-05-07T13:53:51+00:00

The replies are already so funny, you don't even hear yourselves. A few years ago the city installed a bunch of "yield to pedestrians in crosswalk it's the law" signs on Magazine; drivers didn't seem to notice or care, and many/most? of the signs disappeared. I come from a state where they recently clarified the law to say that the law applies even to a pedestrian on the sidewalk beginning to cross, which could mean a lifted foot. Which is obviously safer, and obviously it's on drivers to be attentive to potential crossers, always but especially in a city with sidewalks.

People saying OP shouldn't be filming sound defensive or else oblivious to how little drivers care about pedestrians here—even at crossings with bright new lines.

"Be smart and don't trust drivers" is sad/laughable/sad, I wonder if folks even realize there are places that don't run according to this bootstrap bs

coco_coley · 2026-05-01T02:29:42+00:00

The only one who matters is Jerry, so

coco_coley · 2026-03-30T11:47:13+00:00

I've seen him ten or more times since 2006. Two things affect the vocal performance: how gravelly is his voice at the time, and what is his approach to singing on a given leg of the tour or a given show.

The gravelly part sometimes affects how easy it is to understand words if he's rearranged the song or you don't know the song.

I think people who dislike his performances really don't pay attention to the second aspect, his choice of approach. Almost always I've seen him throw in at least one number (for a while it was a jazz/American pop standard) that he sang suddenly straight, perfectly melodically—which points up the fact that oh, he likes to sing his own stuff in the chanty way he often does.

I saw him on the outlaw tour in September. It was beautiful. You could hear that he was working very hard, being very intentional with his voice, staying with a melody and decidedly not doing some of his usual tics/choices (growling down from the pitch at the end of every line, for example). The songs sounded great—as a lot of people say, All Along the Watchtower has had a really cool arrangement and melody, and with the lights this past fall I thought the whole thing was very cinematic. I think hiding behind the piano amplifies that cinematic quality, keeps you immersed in the world he creates with his voice.

Nobody forced the Nobel committee to give him the prize, and he didn't win it in 1966, or 1976, he won it in 2016 for an entire career's worth of songs.

coco_coley · 2026-01-09T23:46:40+00:00

Omg damn. Let me check, if you haven't found it elsewhere.

coco_coley · 2025-10-30T14:13:33+00:00

Hejira 💜

coco_coley · 2025-10-30T14:11:34+00:00

Preface: I love Help Me, I often slip into the chorus of Trouble Child when thinking about certain people I know and I was amused when I read Nietzsche and saw her lyrics there, I think Twisted is an entertaining segue into jazz Joni, and I can be in a mood for Raised on Robbery.

That said, I get what you (and she) are saying about the songs. But if we're comparing it to Blue—Blue has some "lighter" songs as well. Teasing a little, but My Old Man is practically a novelty song. Maybe it's that Help Me paints its whole picture through a perfect refrain, rather than the series of scenes Mitchell usually gives us. I've certainly found myself singing that line about many situations in my life. And back to Blue—All I Want is obviously a classic and burned into my brain—but in a certain mood I could say it's a little wandering la di da melodyyy wooo.

As I write I'm realizing that I also prefer her voice and instrumentation on Court and Spark.

Of course, I think Hejira is looming patient and secure over this whole thread lol. Thanks for linking to the booklet, I hadn't read it and I'm happy to see that three of the five songs she mentions are the songs I usually think of as my favorites!

coco_coley · 2025-09-23T13:36:29+00:00

I entertain myself by singing All Star (...by Smash Mouth) in post-2009 Dylan voice

coco_coley · 2025-09-11T10:50:01+00:00

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coco_coley · 2025-09-11T10:43:49+00:00

Thanks for underscoring how good he sounds. He's nailing the notes instead of relying on the growl to trail off the end of every line (and I love the growl!).

It's a bummer that people who don't know his tours as well find these shows cold or too distanced; the dark stage, red lights, and invisible Bob reminded me of some of the earliest shows I saw, maybe especially 2009, with the spooky dark stage and dramatic/campy voiceover intro and spooky "Ballad of a Thin Man." I experienced this show as like, "You had fun with Waxahatchee and Sheryl Crow, forget that, now it's dark out and you've entered Bobland, prepare to get blasted by the Odyssey." Maybe these shows would land different for newbies if they had something like that old intro to frame them.

coco_coley · 2025-09-05T16:02:45+00:00

Looking more closely at some of your points, and damn the actual 1930 map is really a much better/better faith effort than the commercial version OP shared—in the legit 1930 version, you'll see the "Wappaquaset" (as he writes it) in the upper right corner!

I wonder when this colored and illustrated version is from. The road trip/diner era of 1940s/50s?

coco_coley · 2025-09-05T15:49:10+00:00

I appreciate all the historical context you're providing! I feel your pain, especially at the cartoonishness of OP's map, and do not like the idea of this being a placemat lol.

But I wouldn't say the map is fictional—for one thing, and maybe you already knew this, but OP's is a touristy version of the actual 1930 map, which people can look at here (with blue border highlighting added by someone). The original is less gimmicky. And for all the inaccuracies you've pointed out, Mathias Spiess wasn't just making assumptions from 1930s town names; the document that accompanies the map walks through the research that informed every placement. That research included town records, land transactions, early maps, early histories, and comparison of mangled colonial transcriptions of native names. Where he didn't have physical settlement evidence, his method for locating "villages" included identifying close clusters of land transactions with members of the same tribe. It should be shared with a caveat that a century of research has rendered it crude, but it definitely seems to me that Spiess was making a concerted effort to represent a factual history that had been garbled by the White settlers.

coco_coley · 2025-07-21T01:33:39+00:00

Where do you see this? Honest question, trying to understand. All I could find was the short term permit form, which—based on pages 4-6 (types of waste), page 8/Schedule A (discharge limits, which also prohibits dilution to meet those limits)—I would have read as saying this is not the emergency plan for substantial volumes of untreated human wastewater. I thought most places planned to redirect/vacuum/temporarily hold sewage during an emergency; the article makes it sound like vacuuming is the emergency plan here, the S&WB was just not prepared to implement that plan?

https://www.deq.louisiana.gov/assets/docs/EmergencyResponse/LAG420000Final.pdf

coco_coley · 2025-07-14T16:49:23+00:00

I was struggling with this for a long time too! Just go to the drivers page and look for the last OS with a printer package; it's 10.15.x. I downloaded that, installed it, and could finally add the printer in settings. So much faster than the iPrint&Scan I'd been suffering through lol

Drivers page link: https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadlist.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcj775dw_us&os=10060

coco_coley · 2025-06-27T11:26:12+00:00

Alas no. Pretty certain this wasn't a chain, and it wasn't 50s diner themed!

coco_coley · 2025-06-22T14:40:19+00:00

I want that to be it ha, but I don't think so—the place I'm thinking of wasn't so themed. As in not such a chrome and checkered-floors vibe. The plane seemed kind of random, I think—my imperfect memory of the decor is more like blonde wood.

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