The return of Bill Nye

So I popped in a CD of Cajun music this morning and they started singing in french. Not just french, but funny, hillbilly french. Cajun music is already 100 times more bouncy and fun than other kinds of American folk music and this, the goofiest french in the whole world, was the cherry on top.
Then I went and enjoyed a sandwich called a po-boy, which is basically enough meat to feed a third world country stuffed between two slices of french bread. To my surprise the bread was not the french bread you find at Maceys but legit (and delicious) french bread. It reminded me of of the bread in Uruguay, very much after European tradition.
The Cajun people of Louisiana remained connected to their European heritage much longer than our ancestors did. Even when the Cajuns became an autonomous people it still took a long time for them to be assimilated into the the US culture. The moral of the story is that traces of french-european tradition are everywhere. I find it abtholutely fathinating.

I'm sad because the oil spill is going to wreak havoc on New Orleans. In one of my installs the client was watching a documentary on the Exxon Valdez oil spill. It absolutely destroyed the local economy around the spill. Bill Nye the Science Guy was on the news chatting with the anchor about the consequences of the spill. At first I wondered why on earth they got Bill Nye of all people, but then I remembered that he knows everything. Anywho, the fates have it in for this poor place.

So yesterday the salesmen only sold 2, so I didn't get to install anything. What did I do? I drew! There really isn't much to report about my own goings ons. When I don't work I go to the library and listen to music on youtube while I practice my drawing. Yep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_peoples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun