Lagniappe Mobile Blog

Which I recently did here from the back of a bike, I also bang my head to metal music . . can you believe it? Well, more like started a social network called MetalMusic.com, where I’ve recently posted about world hunger and the insanity and Satanism of metal music . . it’s a young network but already members from all over so if you are into the genre stop by - of course it’s free and you can even play voyeur but it’s more fun to join . . .

Don’t ask about my bloggin site - and hey, for the few of you who followed a recent flame-posting war between Jeff Poor myself - we finally met at the Lagniappe Nappie Awards last week. I spotted him walking along Dauphin Street, cell phone in hand, as it was dark, no one around it occurred to me I could knock him over the head and no one would know . . .but I chickened out and we actually got along pretty well for enemies . . (Hey Jeff, was that really Tom Brady at your table, I mean I didn’t know, I barely know what a football is . . ) And the after-party at Joe Cain’s was super but one problem with after-parties of course, is the day after . . Rob appeared on stage at Joe Cain’s strumming guitar and singing quite well, and Ashley was so nined-up she appeared as a Russian Czarina to me in her black chiffon dress, or maybe that was one to many Stella Artois in my hands . . . I hung with best local artist of the year Devlin Wilson, who it turns out I’ve known for many years, met when he painted only doors and walls . . well, enough for now, stop by my mental - I mean metal site, check out the group on solving world hunger, maybe you have one of the keys to solving it . . . P.S. Stevie Cen -, nice seeing you at the party, remember to send a few local metal bands to the site . . . I’m looking into a webcast event for early next year . . .

Forget water coolers and cubicles - - all the talk everywhere is and will be for sometime the landing of the Airbus contract on our Brookley Field. The economic impact not just for the City and County but for the entire State will be enormous.  It seems Mobile has become a money magnet and the Europeans apparently have a thing for us. We are kind of cute, aren’t we, stretched out on a tranquil bay, our arms around two beaches?  Congratulations to all who worked diligently over the past three years to assure the Air Force, NG and EADS that our city is worthy of such a big contract. Fingers crossed that Boeing’s expected protest will heard but not listened too, and that other businesses will begin to pay closer attention to Mobile ( I expect the Disney folks are already here scouting around for a lot of acreage and that I-65 is backed up all the way to Atlanta with the corporate exodus from there to here -LOL). Having traveled quite a bit I am sometimes flustered having to say “Mobile,Alabama” when asked from where I hail - instead of just “Mobile.” It seems we are moving much closer to being a City instead of just a city.  March really did come in like a lion! Hope to cover this and more in my Lagniappe County View column.