Gov. Bobby Jindal and New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson made it official at a 10:15 a.m. press conference: the state of Louisiana and the Saints have agreed to a deal that will keep the team playing in the Louisiana Superdome through 2025.

http://blog.nola.com/saintsbeat/2009/04/gov_bobby_jindal_and_new.html

-Doc

GulfMark Offshore Inc., canceled an estimated $76.5 million deal with Bender because of delays.  This on the heels of last month’s news that one of Bender’s largest customers, Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. (NYSE: OSG), canceled work valued at more than $500 million, also citing delivery delays. Bender faces other legal action over alleged delivery delays.  …

Troupe Trice is a 5 year old in school at St Ignatius Preschool.  He has undergone 2 heart transplants for heart disease (retrictive cardiomyopathy). Check out his website here:

http://cotafortroupet.com/

According to a new study, the Saints have the second worst record in the draft in the NFL, 1997-2004.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124053397118950941.html

Note the table in the online version does not corrlelate with the print version, which showed the Saints ranked #31 overall (in number of snaps taken by draftees)

  Earth Day Mobile Bay 2009 at the Fairhope Pier was well attended with beautiful weather.  In additions to the purveyors of herbs and incense, there were represenatives from local conservation groups (eg. Weeks Bay), representatives from Wildlife and Fisheries with great educational material for …

Last big time local Senior Bowl QB was Jamarcus Russell from Mobile that went to Oakland Raiders.

The largest point to point sail boat race in the US.
(lumis.com)

Enjoy the sounds of three Mobile Symphony quartets in the springtime air,
savor an array of delectable foods by Martha Rutledge Catering
and wines by Red or White. Tonight at 7pm.

http://www.mobilebotanicalgardens.org/one_enchanted.htm

-Doc

From 4/12/09:

An estimated crowd of 8,000 turned out at Ladd-Peebles Stadi um Friday evening to watch the Jaguars’ first-team units put on a show during the school’s first spring football game. “I was expecting probably 1,500 people,” South Alabama coach Joey Jones said. “To have 8,000 people at a spring ballgame, I thought that was …

It looks like Pirates are as endangered in Mobile as they are in the Indian Ocean.

As of May 1, 106.5 FM will cease operating as “The Pirate” and begin a new life as “FM Talk 106.5,” giving the Mobile area its first all-talk FM station. Morning show hosts Sean Sullivan and Wayne Gardner will …

If you missed Arts Alive:

http://blog.al.com/entertainment_source/2008/04/arts_alive_festival_blossoms_i.html

You have missed out.

However - here are some of the film scramble entries, courtesy of the Crescent Theater:

http://www.crescenttheater.com/filmscramble/ 

Reaction to most is “What the…?” but compliments to Trey Lane’s (Magical Mystery tour-inspired?) interpretation of El Cantador’s “Always Wine”.

Also recommend some of El Cantador’s other tunes, available here:

http://www.myspace.com/vivaelcantador

http://www.elcantador.com

Testamonial from …

An unemployed blogger’s speech at the Pensacola Tea Party ends up on Keith Olbermann’s show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOwsIIIe5I

(We will spare you the Olbermann segment with his whining, brain-dead co-commentator railing against Pensacola “rednecks”)

“Sadly - approaching the nation’s serious problems from a thoughtful, bipartisan standpoint without the petty bickering ain’t happening yet - from either side (from the …