* Someone hit a garbage, meaningless 3 at the end of a game?? No freaking way. Pics or it didn't happen.
* Fantastic weekend....
- lunch at commanders palace Friday, followed by Sturgill Simpson at Jazz Fest
- hung out in the Quarter with some old college buds who were in town for a bachelor party. Walked right past Sir Nick Faldo.
- National WW2 museum and brewery hop with Suter last night. Bumped into Mannie Fresh and his family as we were leaving.
* Played a little hand in orchestrating Simpson's opening act on Friday. We've got a famous all male Mardi Gras krewe/dance troupe called the 610 Stompers...
https://610stompers.com/
I texted old boy's wife about a month ago to see if she was coming to town for Jazz Fest, but she was not. She did however say he really wanted the 610 Stompers to perform on stage with him, but wasn't having any luck setting it up. I put in a couple calls to my buddies in that krewe. The first one (Sean) basically said it wasn't gonna happen. The second (Ryan) was all jacked up, called their executive director, and passed his contact info to me. I assumed I'd just have to give this to Sturgill's publicist/manager/whatever, but his wife just said "nah, he fired all those guys. just gimme the dude's name and he'll call him himself."
I can only imagine that phone call....."yeah, hello. my name is sturgill. i'm playing jazz fest. would your group come be my opening act and dance on stage with me?"
So anyways, it went down. They actually had a tough time setting it up because they also performed Wednesday at game 5 of the Cavs-Pacers series.
https://www.facebook.com/casey.urschel
Video on there. 4 minute opening montage.
http://www.nola.com/jazzfest/index.ssf/2018/04/sturgill_simpson_jazz_fest_new.html
Newspaper story on there.
* Ordered a tux. No more renting for this guy. Own it outright. No lease payments, mortgages, or nothing.
Slim fit. 38 regular.
* Phag.