Uncle Patrick Goes Abroad

Not that this blog has been a paragon of consistency lately, but you will see even less of me over the next few days. Your aunt and I are going to New Orleans for the Jazz Festival this weekend. As many of my long-time readers will recall, I began this blog just before I went to the Festival a few years ago. I hope to post some thoughts about this year's Festival, particularly in light of the fact that this is the first post-Katrina Festival. I will not have one of those lap-top thingies with me, and I am not sure if I will have access to a computer while I am there, but I will take notes and blog like the wind upon my return. In the meantime, check out my archives from 2004 for a refresher course in Uncle Patrick/Festival studies.

And I did watch the first part of the two-part House event last night. I cannot speak to the medicine (as always, I refer you to the fine Polite Dissent) but I did enjoy the show. I think everyone involved played their roles perfectly. Kudos go to Omar Epps in particular. His portrayal of Dr. Foreman's plight was spot-on and consistent with the character as developed over the last two seasons (although I think the scene where he "enlists the aid" of Dr. Cameron was a bit much - but this is a writing problem, not an acting probliem). I hope that this is not some sort of swan song for the character, though...