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Sunday, December 03, 2023

Pascal's Manale


We were talking Cajun,
a customer and me,
New Orleans cooking,
crawfish boils,
and andouille sausage,
Little places, holes in the wall,
in Metairie, in the Quarter,
even Commander's Palace,
and our love of Cafe du Monde.
 
But it was when I said a name,
pulled from memory, 27 years ago,
His eyes lit up, alive, joining me,
I swear his mouth started to water,
when I said that name,
Pascal's Manale.
 
We both started talking, joining,
a tapestry being woven,
strands, moments, visual and taste,
Barbeque shrimp they call it,
colossal is the word,
All hand on deck, diving in,
hands and face dripping with sauce,
the eyes of the shrimp watching,
As we totally lost our minds...

 
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December 3, 2023
Pascal's Manale
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edited February 21, 2022
Night in New Orleans - v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/night-in-new-orleans-new-awlins-v5.html
Edited December 6, 2013
Night in New Orleans – v4
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/nightin-new-orleans-new-awlins-v4.html
(editing original version)
Edited December 5, 2013
Night in New Orleans – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/night-in-new-orleans-new-awlins-v3.html
Edited September 20, 2012
“Night in New Orleans – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns-v2.html
Sunday, July 15, 2001 at 6:22:58 PM EST
edited December 6, 2001
“Night in New Orleans
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns.html
mostly about trip to New Orleans for Jazz and Heritage Festival, 1993
and again for job interview at Tulane University 1996
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edited November 18, 2018
Mood Indigo – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo-v2.html
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1064114948794695680
November 16, 2018
Mood Indigo
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo.html
May 1993
Mood Indigo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLayv8rPlts
by Willie Humphrey
(93 years old in 1993)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Humphrey
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858981063/
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation_Hall_Jazz_Band
Preservation Hall
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edited November 16, 2018
Nice Tie – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/nice-tie-v2.html
8/7/04 18:05
Nice Tie
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/08/nice-tie.html
partially non-verbal conversation with Richard Payne
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668413/
of Preservation Hall Jazz Band
https://www.facebook.com/preservationhalljazzband/
https://www.preservationhalljazzband.com/
at Preservation Hall Jazz Band club
https://www.facebook.com/Preservation.Hall/
http://www.preservationhall.com/?fbclid=IwAR3erKerKs-nD2hpMDNl6QDuCcgpyZkyGrGzPrGM06c-k8WFGmeyqXdRhvg 
726 St. Peters Street
New Orleans, LA
He was the bass player for the band and
he was the bass player in
“Toots Sweet’s Band” in the movie
Angel Heart (1987).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/
I gave him my tie, right off my neck
(a tie I had bought from a pushcart at
Downtown Crossing in Boston).
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edited April 27, 2015
Congo Square – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2_27.html
(editing version 2)
edited November 4, 2018
Amazing Grace – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/amazing-grace-v3.html
(editing original again)
edited April 16, 2015
Amazing Grace – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/amazing-grace-v2.html
July 12, 2004 18:56 –
Amazing Grace
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/amazing-grace.html
Amazing Grace solo of Aaron Neville
at the 1993 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
http://www.nojazzfest.com/
https://www.facebook.com/JazzFest
https://www.facebook.com/jazznheritage 
https://twitter.com/Jazznheritage
http://www.art4now.com/cpost93.htm
during a real wedding.
The members of Los Lobos were near me, watching as I was.
I saw the wedding couple riding in a carriage
in the French Quarter that night.
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edited April 13, 2015
Congo Square – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2.html
July 12, 2004 19:15.
Congo Square
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/congo-square.html
Congo Square, special area at the
1993 Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans
 
 
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