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What in the world is going on? No sooner have I dealt with the issue of Australians having afternoon slugfests with kangaroos and all-you-can-eat buffets with termites, than here comes this headline right out of my own backyard: "Boy's arm cut from gator's belly." An 11-year old boy named Devin Funck goes swimming in his neighborhood pond in a New Orleans suburb and gets attacked by a 500-pound crocodile named Big Joe. Big Joe bites Devin's left arm completely off and swims away. As Devin is...

"A storm's 'a comin'. A storm's a comin', bay-beh!" Dirk bops through the corner of my empty bar on his way out to the street for a smoke break. A bit of an old maid, he sounds like the Creole ladies who work at Mother's diner over on Poydras Street. The slang and cadence of Nwaaarhlins-speak is infectious and pervasive throughout all the social strata here. "Where y'at?" "I'm 'a holla atcha." "Yeah you right." Just those three can be heard hundreds of times a night even among the bluebloods...