Randy Fertel

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I’m looking forward to tomorrow night’s Edible Evening 2025, in support of @esynola. As president of the Ruth U. Fertel Foundation, we’re proud to be a supporting sponsor of the event. Tickets are still available, via esynola.org/edibleevening/

My effort to make sense of Pableaux & PableauxWorld. His memorial made me realize PableauxSpeak created PableauxWorld & was just letting us visit. Now we need to sustain it. Common Edge is an urbanist site—the right place to explore PableauxWorld. Just in time for Mardi Gras...

Thanks so much to Martin Pedersen of @CommEdgeCollab for publishing this piece.

My latest Substack offers, I hope, some tools and encouragement for the #Resistance, particularly in our approach to conversations with climate change deniers and their ilk: randyfertel.substack.com/p/a-horse-in-a…

My latest post offers what I hope is an encouraging reminder to not lose our agency amid the chaos, by using the tools for recovering from trauma. randyfertel.substack.com/p/trumps-traum…

"Trump’s threats and dreams are speech acts. As he gets what he wants, one after another, we are challenged to wonder what can be done to stop him? We need to pay attention as our trust in our agency slips away: what can we do?..." randyfertel.substack.com/p/trumps-traum…

Helplessnes —the inability to act, to trust in one’s agency—brings the ouroboros to mind, the snake that bites its tail. Traditionally the ouroboros symbolized a symbol for eternal cyclic renewal. In Trump and Vought’s hands it seems to represent eternal cyclic destruction..."

In #NewOrleans for the #SuperBowl2025 or #MardiGras, or a local hosting out-of-town guests? Here are a few of my recommendations for tourists who’d like to get off the beaten path to see some of the rich art and culture that New Orleans has to offer.

Yesterday would have been Mom’s 98th. Here she is with her legendary redfish, which prompted two generations—including my son & nephew—to ask, “Is it bigger than Grandma’s?!” Happy birthday to Ruth Fertel, a woman whose defeats were few and whose wins were always the biggest.

Read my reflection on the day, “A Quantum Experience of Inauguration Day,” here: randyfertel.substack.com/p/a-quantum-ex… You can find the archive of my Substack, “Yes And: Essays in the Age of Improv” — and, I hope, subscribe — at randyfertel.substack.com.

This short film by Ted Morée captures some of the magic of our CounterInauguration in #NewOrleans last Monday. We did what we could to protest, resist, and celebrate the culture bearing and cultural transference that New Orleans is so good at. #inauguration

I hope you'll read this latest Substack, reflecting on my quantum experience of #NewOrleans' CounterInauguration Celebration, the cultural transference I witnessed, and the way New Orleans is uniquely poised to protest and fight for democracy. randyfertel.substack.com/p/a-quantum-ex…

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New Orleans’ mastery of winging it.. it’s up to us! On Monday, January 20, 2025, you’re invited to a CounterInauguration Celebration. Come wing it with @krewedelusion's King Guerrilla Gorilla (Randy Fertel) and the innerkrewe Krewe of Libertas as we kick off a new era of

Lady Liberty's been through a lot in recent years, but she’s still standing strong! Come roll with her in our gerrymeander to #NOLA's Armstrong Park for a CounterInauguration. The success of our resistance to whatever new insults will certainly come her way, may depend on

of office, may be without serious consequence to the body politic. But those who join us in the frigid weather may guard a measure of their sense of agency. Details in the link: randyfertel.substack.com/p/resisting-tr…

the real deal. Given Trump’s goals, we must push directly back against his nativism..." How? Read on for my argument against losing our agency. Today's CounterInaugural parade in #NewOrleans at Louis Armstrong Park, kicking off at the stroke of noon when Trump takes his oath

"Make no mistake, Trump's Operation Safeguard, his plan to start ICE deportation raids in Chicago within hours of his second inauguration, is an act of terrorism. It's timed to be the first footfall of Trump's stormtroopers. Its goal is to frighten all of us, not just those

@krewedelusion 4:00pm - @krewedelusion’s CounterInaugural Ball at Maison (508 Frenchmen Street), featuring: 4:00pm - 8:00pm - Hot Club of New Orleans 8:30-11:59pm - Gene’s Music Machine Hope to see you there, #NewOrleans!

@krewedelusion 11:00am - The Rituals of Libertas at Armstrong Park (701 N. Rampart Street). The Mahogony Brass Band will lead a quantum mock jazz funeral marking rebirth, predeath, zombification, resurrection and perpetuation of the Statue of Libertas!