Last week the lovely wife and I boarded a big Delta Box and went to New Orleans for the Jazz Fest. The indignities of flying today have been widely chronicled, but I saw an incredible use of our tax payer dollars, while in the New Orleans airport!
We were in the first class security line and suddenly another line opened up to our left. It turned out this was the full body scan line. Well before we got to the scanner, a worker told us that this was the body scan line, and if you didn’t want the scan, you needed to go back to the other line. In other words, the scanner was only for rich people and any suicide bomber, who didn’t want to get scanned, should go to the other side. Welcome to the Big Easy, the real Big Easy!
The Jazz Fest is the best big musical event I’ve ever been to. It combines indigenous music with the biggest names in Rock and Roll. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and the Beach Boys played the first weekend, and The Eagles are playing the second weekend.
Seeing Bruce with an audience of 150,000 people was a religious experience. He’s still the best I’ve ever seen, and he had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand. Also Trombone Shorty is one of the most exciting new talents around. Find him on a video, if you get a chance.
Four days of eating, drinking, and partying in NOLA should last for a while. My diet and my liver are shot to hell. Rock and Roll and old age may not be the greatest combination for a recipe.
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Lord have mercy on my Rock and Roll soul
-Kimberly Kuepferle

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