HumidCity

Please come out and enjoy these great upcoming events and help support Chris & Otter at the same time! And please help spread the word…

Thanks to all - and especially to the folks at HumidCity for bringing me on board, very glad to be here!

Andrea Garland (aka NOGoddess)

Artisan Cheese & Wine Tasting
Featuring Hand Made Cheeses
by Chef Sheana Davis of The Epicurean Connection (sheanadavis.com)
and Wines From Wines Unlimited

- A Benefit for Chris & Otter -

$18.00 per person, includes cheeses and a glass of wine.
Additional wine for sale by the glass or bottle.
Proceeds go to help pay Chris & Otter’s medical debt.
At Bacchanal Wine Shop • Thursday, April 17th, 7:30pM
600 Poland Avenue • BacchanalWine.com • Tel: 504.942.9111
For more info, please visit ChrisAndOtter.com

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Chris Rudge, owner of Bacchanal in the Bywater and his wife, Otter, (of Backyard Ballroom) were in a very serious car accident, early Monday morning. Their friend that was driving the vehicle, passed away. Chris with his adrenaline cut him and Otter out of the vehicle himself.

Chris has severe injury to his ankle and leg, but will hopefully be alright. His wife Otter was flown to a different hospital due to her extensive list of injuries. She is currently still in ICU and her condition is ‘guarded’ as of last night.

This is a call out to our friends and neighbors of Bywater and of New Orleans. Please support Bacchanal Wine to help and keep it open, while Chris and Otter remain hospitalized. Kelly will be there from 2pm-9pm Monday through Sunday. They are asking specifically if you can pay cash, it will be appreciated while Chris is in the hospital unable to deal with banking transactions and vendor agreements. However, all patronage will be appreciated. Sunday events will go on as scheduled. They are also asking for your patronage to Saturday wine tastings from 3pm-6pm.

Additionally, we are working to get a trust fund established with the bank in which large donations can be made, as it does not appear they had health insurance. Information on that and possibly other fundraisers will follow.

Bacchanal

Backyard Ballrom

Ganked unashamedly from Greg Peters over at Suspect Device, a really great piece of humor:

Mayor Nagin and Police Chief Riley visited a class in a local elementary school yesterday and the teacher suggested that they participate in the day’s vocabulary lesson.

“Today’s word is tragedy,” said the mayor. “Can anyone give an example of a tragedy?” asked the police chief.

One child raised her hand. “If a drug dealer was trying to shoot another drug dealer and hit my sister instead,” the child offered. “No,” said the police chief, “that would be an accident. Anyone else?”

“How about if everyone quit visiting the city, my daddy lost his job and couldn’t provide for me?” another child ventured. “No,” said the mayor, “although that would be a great loss. One more answer from Johnny in the back.”

“Well,” said Johnny, “if the mayor and police chief were shoved off the viewing platform during a Mardi Gras parade and killed when a float ran them over, THAT would be a tragedy!” “Now that’s correct,” agreed the mayor and police chief. “And can you tell us why?” “Because,” said Johnny, “it sure as hell wouldn’t be a great loss, and I doubt very seriously if it would be an accident.”