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Parrillo Family Photo - September 2011

We took this photo at the summer Renegade Craft Fair in the city.   Here's the photo from 2009 (note where the Babe is in the first one!) and one from last December .    Beard in all 3. December 2009  December 2010

Sounds about Right

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Maybe a little less self-promotion and conspiracy theories and a little more nonsense and pizza.

Bourbon Street Band

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There are lots of cover bands blasting tunes out the open doors/windows along Bourbon Street in New Orleans, but we only found one band that was playing authentic Creole/Cajun (not sure which!) music.  These guys were great!

Why is there an eject button my new Computer?

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I'm not the first person to wonder why it is there .  So much for Apple's incredible design expertise.

Digestive Biscuits

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Although one would think these would be of some aid, but trust me, they failed to live up to their billing. 

Central Grocery - New Orleans - Home of the Muffaletta

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Central Grocery is a small Italian grocery store in the French Quarter in New Orleans.  I was down there this week for a conference and this was on my 'NOLA Bucket List' as this is the HOME of the original Muffaletta sandwich.  These beauties are stuffed with cheese, salamis and most importantly: olive salad.  I've had plenty of Muffalettas and I don't know if it was because I was eating this one in the store where it all began - but this was the *best* sandwich of it's kind that I've ever had. The store itself isn't much to look at.  It really is a grocery store with canned/jarred products everywhere.  Nat and I had a discussion about this type of place (the sort of local 'food touchstone' that tourists seek out - like Pat's/Gino's in Philadelphia or Uno's in Chicago).  Do you think that they had some great PR person back in the day who got them in travel books (before the web) and then it sort of self-propagated itself?  Or...do you

Meet the Fox Wedding Cake Topper

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There isn't quite a wedding like a Moran wedding!  Congrats to B & E!  What a beautiful day and check out their cake topper.  B carved it himself and painted it, too.  Pretty amazing stuff.