Music Update: Check out KBON in Eunice, Louisiana, for some down-home Louisiana music ranging fron zydeco to two-step to swamp pop. This is a "people's" station that plays stuff the locals actually enjoy, so they throw in the occasional mainstream hit. This station is so cool that the DJs sometimes speak in Cajun French. Then there's an "aficionado's" station out of New Orleans called WWOZ that plays mostly jazz and blues. It's run by the New Orleans Tourist Board and is extremely professional. The blues shows rock, and the jazz shows play New Orleans jazz, not that "hard bop" stuff or whatever it is that jazz bores get off on so much. Both stations are highly recommended.

Just to piss off France, why don't American schools change their curriculum and teach Cajun French instead of Parisian French? That'd be great. Instead of "Voilà Monsieur Thibaut. Monsieur Thibaut habite la place d'Italie. Monsieur Thibaut aime beaucoup les allemands. Monsieur Thibaut n'aime pas les juifs. Le pére de Monsieur Thibaut était collaborateur. Sa mére et ses soeurs aussi, mais à la horizontale", we could learn to say, "Get away from my woman before I stab you with this broken-off whiskey bottle neck" or "Waitress, bring us three more pitchers of beer and some more crawfish and jambalaya" or "Let's get drunk and go gator huntin'." Much more patriotic, I think.