Seems with all this recent travel yours truly finds himself down with a murderous head cold, so blogging today will be light. Laying flat on my back in front of the TV and watching David Ortiz prove that he is one of the greatest – if not THE greatest clutch hitter in Red Sox history, however, is one of the few advantages of my quarantine.

Whenever I got a summer cold back in New England or Kentucky, you could always find yourself a chaise longe and bake out in the hot humid weather, and the sickness would just ooze out of your pores. Unfortunately, you can’t do that out here in Arizona – lay outside for a hour or so and all you’ll end up with is a wicked sunburn to go along with the rest of your miseries.

But one’s misery, like everything else, I suppose, is relative. I hope y’all will keep in mind that there are still a whole lotta people down in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast that continue to hurt bad from last year’s hurricane, and I can think of no better way for people to help than to make whatever travel arrangements you can afford and go down there and pay the folks a visit. Yeah, yeah, I know the fares have gone up and you may already have vacation plans set, but Dollar Bill and I both figure that if enough people could set aside time for even an extended weekend visit, it would do the economy and the folks down there a world of good.

BTW, I’d like to welcome two other New Orleans-area bloggers to my own Blogroll, Dangle24-7 and Leslie at Katrina Networking. From Dangle’s comment on my recent Phil Spector post over at CrabAppleLane Blog, his musical tastes follow some of the same pedigree as my own – one of the things that makes blogging so cool. I hope you’ll add these two sites to your own list of regular tour stops and help get the word out in every way possible so that the good people of NO and the MGC are not forgotten.

Now, where’d I put that handkerchief?