There will (probably) be no Music Friday next week, as there will be a Chin Music Press event in San Francisco. Anyone interesting in hearing a reading (by me) from Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? just come on by Get Lost Travel Books around 7:00 next Wednesday. Then on Thursday, another Chin Music event will take place: check out the info here.

Meanwhile, back to New Orleans, the homeless are encamped along Clairborne Ave., under the freeway. It is disturbing and disgraceful to see an American city reduced to this. And they are taking care of the housing shortage by doing this.

It is amazing that anyone can live in this city and not be pissed off.

That brings me back to last week’s topic: protest. Here is another great protest song of the Bush-era.

But since you will have to wait two weeks for the next Music Friday posting, let’s double up. Going back two weeks, from an artist who I definitely wanted to put up here at least twice: Nicholas Payton. Behind the cut, the more positive side of our city and the real reason for Music Friday.