Jamarcus Russell did some very poor quarterbacking this week.

One day early last week, I was listening to a radio show out of Washington DC on an internet stream. Somehow, it came up that one of the hosts hasn't french kissed his wife in a decade. A younger, unmarried producer in the studio found that hard to believe, and they argued a bit about whether that was typical.

A couple days after Baton Rouge announced that the first pass of Hurricane Gustav debris pick up had been completed, I took this picture. We've been a pretty patient town. It's been six weeks, and I don't hear much bitching about all of the limbs that still line our street.

A couple of keepers from the mailbag. First, from a political email thread in September. But read to the end, it's a good one there.

I don't even know how long it's been since I typed up one of these. I have a lot of ground to cover, and a lot of ground I won't get to, as I'm in the middle of an ultra-busy two weeks. After next week, I'll get back to one or two blogs a week, a regular photo of the day, and a link of the week update every week. But for this week and next, you'll just have to settle for what I can puke out, a minute here and a minute there.

I have a challenge that you cannot possibly achieve.

This post is only two sentences. You'll have to click through to read them.

This post gets kind of yucky. If you are easily disgusted or offended, please move along to another web page now.

Here's what I'm listening to right now. I like the song, and the lyrics describe my mood right now perfectly. Well, maybe the lyrics have a little more anger in them than I do, but I feel that powerful.

I don't know if you have talked to anyone in Baton Rouge, so I'll give you a quick update on how it looks: pretty bad.

I watched the Democratic National Convention this week with an eye toward statistics. Here are a few tidbits for you.

I was commuting from my house to downtown Baton Rouge Tuesday morning. This is normally a five-minute proposition, but today, I can't catch anything but red lights. You know the magical device that you've dreamed of? The one where you can hit a button and the light changes to green for you? Well, it was just like I had one of those in reverse.