serve up a bowl of gumbo, pour a dixie draft beer, sit back and relax for the BP show.

they have brought our homeboy, with his Masters degree in Geology from here at UNO (univ of new orleans) and hails from Ponchartrain Park, no less...as does Wendell Pierce

Wendell may have to get him into the second season of Treme...if he has any acting skills...problem is...what some would say...the lack of acting skills of the real musicians.

well...given how badly the CEO of BP acted like he really cares about the gulf coast or BP's culpability...i think we can cut Trombone Shorty a little slick...i mean slack...sorry...for his lack of thespian presence.

turns out the department chair for Geology here at UNO...once hosted a program to inspire minorities to purse the earth sciences...a program yours truly attended with a life long friend from Ponchartrain Park back in the 1970s during high school, that produced folks like Darryl Willis.

Dr. Lou Fernandez was brought up in NYC...having had to dodge bullies on the way to skool in the Bronx...felt the way to reach back was to develop a youth mentoring program.

fast forward 40 years....and a product of that program is now the face of BP and oilspill in the gulf...now that is what i call full circle.

I Am Back !! Season 6...Episode #1

As we approach August of 2010, we all must brace ourselves for a storm season that is projected to more active than the past year. All I need for this comparison is one simple outlook: projected number of major storms. Unfortunately it is not July yet, and the tropics are already very active.

One need not add to extensive amount of coverage and opinion already out there on the oil spill...but what is not clear yet...is what impact a major storm will have on the recovery effort and the spread of oil.

Time has come for the daily visit to the NOAA website for weather projections...we now live on our 7 - 14 day schedule...packed and prepared to go.