“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

- Bertrand Russell

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Jim Gabour is a film producer, writer and director, whose work focuses primarily on music and the diversity of cultures. His New Orleans novel Unimportant People is available via Kindle.

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Dying and killing, killing and dying

Jim Gabour 19 May 2013

Our columnist explores the language and the headlines of dying and killing, from Tibet to the United States to Iraq.

Two girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo - chapter eight

Jim Gabour 21 April 2013

Buick returns in the final part of Jim Gabour's story from Blue Moons, Texas. (Start from the beginning of the story here)

Two girlfriends, a Buick & a flamingo - chapter seven

Jim Gabour 14 April 2013

Childhood friends Betty Daniels and Matty Sue Franklin - now both widows - are reunited in the public housing projects of Blue Moons, Texas. But Betty's son Buick is still missing in this seventh chapter of Jim Gabour's story.

Two girlfriends, a Buick & a flamingo - chapter six

Jim Gabour 7 April 2013

In the sixth slice of life from Blue Moons, Texas we learn about a certain Estelle Flamingo and a moonlit leap of faith that brought into existence her child, Diana Flatrock, one Fourth of July. Start from the beginning of the story here.

Two girlfriends, a Buick & a flamingo - chapter five

Jim Gabour 31 March 2013

Diana Flatrock dresses up to relive her confusing encounters with Buick and Anais Nin in a motel confessional before the local Methodist deacon. Diana's Dad Arty inisists on a form of punishment that, like Buick's abandoned Roadmaster, backfires. All this in the fifth part of a story about life and exploration in Blue Moons, Texas. (Read the earlier chapters).

Two girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo - chapter four

Jim Gabour 24 March 2013

Buick trades his guitar for a pair of boots and is on the road again, accomodating the presence of a hard-drinking literary guest as he tries to overcome the loss of Diana. Thinking on his feet helps him avoid a confrontation in this fourth part of the story. (Read chapters one, two and three).

Two girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo - chapter three

Jim Gabour 17 March 2013

In the third installment of the story, Betty's son Buick discovers the guitar and Diana Flatrock. Diana and Buick enter intimate and imagined territory, albeit accompanied two Parisian guests. (Read the first and second chapters)

Two girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo - chapter two

Jim Gabour 10 March 2013

In the second installment of the author's story of two childhood girlfriends we hear from Betty's prodigious son Buick Roadmaster, who begins to inhabit the voices of the Lost Generation in Paris. (Read the first chapter)

Two girlfriends, a Buick, & a flamingo - chapter one

Jim Gabour 2 March 2013

As Betty Daniels and Matty Sue Franklin grew older, the childhood friends braved each their own hardships and tribulations. The first part of Jim Gabour's fictional offering tells about the pains and joys of life's unexpected occurrences

A seasonal religion

Jim Gabour 11 February 2013

As our author - clad in detritus - prepares himself for tomorrow's Mardis Gras and the forecast of huge lightning storms, he remembers striking a blow against a less than divine intervention predicting the Carnival's demise.

Living with murder

Jim Gabour 23 December 2012

Following the Sandy Hook shooting, our Sunday Comics author remembers how his family were the victims of random gun violence and calls for the guns, the NRA lobbyists and the politicans who listen to them to go

Manufacturing 21st Century Reality

Jim Gabour 25 November 2012

The author takes us into the heart of a vivid and authentic-looking antebellum scene that may be coming to your screens soon

Electoral weather report

Jim Gabour 7 November 2012

Our New Orleans columnist, queuing at the voting booth, opens himself up to taking the full measure of the moral and political bluster around him

A jog of memory

Jim Gabour 9 September 2012

Trying to repair the damage inflicted on body and home, our author stumbles upon two survivors of Hurricane Isaac who don't seem to care for schedule.

Joe Ratzinger Deals with Bad Habits

Jim Gabour 2 September 2012

As the Republican National Convention struggles to make Todd Akin disappear, the Vatican is trying do the same to the "radical feminist" nuns of America.

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