I really enjoy nirdeag your blog! It would be nice to see these guys. Have you thought about contacting the museum curator? They may have mugshots from inprocessing in their collection.

NOVEMBER 19TH!!!The Tower Group's MONTHLY SOBRIETY DANCE!! 7pm till ??Food and DJ Entertainment!! It's going to be a great night and we look forward to seeing you there!! God Bless!

Another one of my pet peeves! If the president dies or a war has been declared or there is a hurricane/tornado heading towards you. That’s it. I hate when they spend 20 minutes of a tv show that is only shown once and finish their mini-newscast with “More tonight at 6″. I don’t think so, you spent more time on the interruption than you will on the news program tonight.Usually it’s a cat in a tree, an accident, a broken hydrant, etc.

My site (RideTHISbike.com) focuses on advocating cycling. From time to time, I write about bike tours that are out of the ordinary and I’d be happy to write about Ride The Spine. I get loads of traffic so I’m sure that it will increase awareness of the tour.I also have a suggestion for a worthy charity that could easily tie in with Ride The Spine: FOLC.The (a.k.a. FOLC) is a grass roots, non-profit organization cobbled together by regular folks trying to breathe life back into New Orleans. The Lafitte Corridor runs through several historic New Orleans neighborhoods that stewed in the floodwaters caused by the failure of faulty levees that crumbled during Hurricane Katrina.The flooding of New Orleans was a man-made tragedy far greater in scope than the destruction of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Hundreds of thousands of US citizens remain displaced far from their homes in cities like Atlanta, Houston; yet, the government has only allocated a fraction of the funds that were disbursed to families affected by 911 in NYC to help the Katrina diasporees. Even worse, the paltry assistance being offered has yet to reach many of the victims, making it impossible to return home and gut/rebuild their homes. Meanwhile, their neighborhoods resemble vast, moldy, ghost towns.FOLC is spearheading the drive for a linear park through the Lafitte Corridor. Stretching from the French Quarter to Bayou St. John, the Lafitte Corridor was first known as the Carondolet Canal, a ditch dug by the Spanish in the 1600’s to enable commercial goods to get to New Orleans without need for sailing 50+ miles up the Mississippi River. Eventually, the canal was covered and a railway was built along the corridor. Decades ago, the railroad stopped using much of the corridor and the tracks were ripped up last year.The city’s master transportation plan calls for the corridor to become a bike trail and over $400,000 is available now for the project. Unfortunately, city officials are busy concentrating on more pressing, major emergencies. City Hall has also been pressured by private investment groups to sell portions of the land. If this occurs, the land will be broken up forever.Last week, I was elected to serve on FOLC’s board of directors (a volunteer/no pay position). I have vowed to do all in my power to see the project to completion. We’ll soon be adding a PayPal donation button to the FOLC website and are planning a fundraiser too. If Goat, Jacob & Sean like the idea of helping “FOLC’s” in New Orleans, I’ll work to coordinate a cooperative endeavor.

My site (RideTHISbike.com) focuses on advocating cycling. From time to time, I write about bike tours that are out of the ordinary and I’d be happy to write about Ride The Spine. I get loads of traffic so I’m sure that it will increase awareness of the tour.I also have a suggestion for a worthy charity that could easily tie in with Ride The Spine: FOLC.The (a.k.a. FOLC) is a grass roots, non-profit organization cobbled together by regular folks trying to breathe life back into New Orleans. The Lafitte Corridor runs through several historic New Orleans neighborhoods that stewed in the floodwaters caused by the failure of faulty levees that crumbled during Hurricane Katrina.The flooding of New Orleans was a man-made tragedy far greater in scope than the destruction of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Hundreds of thousands of US citizens remain displaced far from their homes in cities like Atlanta, Houston; yet, the government has only allocated a fraction of the funds that were disbursed to families affected by 911 in NYC to help the Katrina diasporees. Even worse, the paltry assistance being offered has yet to reach many of the victims, making it impossible to return home and gut/rebuild their homes. Meanwhile, their neighborhoods resemble vast, moldy, ghost towns.FOLC is spearheading the drive for a linear park through the Lafitte Corridor. Stretching from the French Quarter to Bayou St. John, the Lafitte Corridor was first known as the Carondolet Canal, a ditch dug by the Spanish in the 1600’s to enable commercial goods to get to New Orleans without need for sailing 50+ miles up the Mississippi River. Eventually, the canal was covered and a railway was built along the corridor. Decades ago, the railroad stopped using much of the corridor and the tracks were ripped up last year.The city’s master transportation plan calls for the corridor to become a bike trail and over $400,000 is available now for the project. Unfortunately, city officials are busy concentrating on more pressing, major emergencies. City Hall has also been pressured by private investment groups to sell portions of the land. If this occurs, the land will be broken up forever.Last week, I was elected to serve on FOLC’s board of directors (a volunteer/no pay position). I have vowed to do all in my power to see the project to completion. We’ll soon be adding a PayPal donation button to the FOLC website and are planning a fundraiser too. If Goat, Jacob & Sean like the idea of helping “FOLC’s” in New Orleans, I’ll work to coordinate a cooperative endeavor.

Great! Would love to touch base with Gray. I’m Jacob’s mother and he calls me whenever they are by a phone but if you email him he can send you my email – I don’t want it on this reply for the world! Great ideas, don’t know how to go about some of those things so would love to talk.