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About Jim Gabour

Jim Gabour is a film producer, writer and director, whose work focuses primarily on music and the diversity of cultures.




Articles by Jim Gabour

Sunday 12th February

Carne Vale

Jim Gabour, 12 February 2012
In the run up to this year's Mardi Gras the author, left behind by progress, nevertheless decides not to rush

Sunday 5th February

Civilisation apéritif

Jim Gabour, 5 February 2012
Join the author for a toddy in a place where politeness has not gone out of style

Sunday 29th January

At the corner of food & politics

Jim Gabour, 29 January 2012
In New Orleans in the summer of 2005 you needed transport and fuel in order to eat. In this landscape of dead refrigerators and flooded stores, abandoned by government, the author describes how individual improvisation woven into collective action fed empty stomachs
Sunday 22nd January

Enter, the anti-Thatcher (in tall shoes)

Jim Gabour, 22 January 2012
The daring designer plunge, the sledgehammer swing and a crawfish culinary classic are all ways to get noticed, swamplands-style
Sunday 15th January

A gift from New Orleans

Jim Gabour, 15 January 2012
The psychic charge given to a gift from deepest Looziana ultimately proves to be a prudent investment
Sunday 8th January

The New Year: tourists, firefighters, and the evil eye

Jim Gabour, 8 January 2012
Royal Fire The latest installment of the Sunday Comics in which the author cycles into an encounter with mysticism and fire in the narrow streets of the French Quarter of New Orleans
Sunday 1st January

A Brief Biological Guide to American Political Amphibians and Reptiles

Jim Gabour, 1 January 2012
In this educational piece the author describes the neoteny exhibited by the political species
Sunday 25th December

Another Rough Beast Slouches toward Bethlehem

Jim Gabour, 25 December 2011
Our author's latest, most seasonal and bibulous Sunday Comic to date



Sunday 18th December

Japanese Woodcuts and Drag Queen Bingo

Jim Gabour, 18 December 2011
Jim Gabour sees the graphic of living through nineteenth-century Japanese woodcuts to Drag Bingo, via West Coast illustrators and his own country and western posters
Sunday 11th December

The Long-Gone Legend of Rocket Johnny and the Statue of Love

Jim Gabour, 11 December 2011
When Rocket Johnny isn’t drinking, and when his guitar is in tune – two things that don’t coincide very often -- he isn’t a bad rhythm player. But those solos are something else again.
Wednesday 7th December

Little Black Hen

Jim Gabour, 7 December 2011
The author recently lost a good friend. He hands over a memory with love in hand.
Sunday 4th December

The one about the squirrels, the avocadoes and the crocodile

Jim Gabour, 4 December 2011
In his first of the Sunday Comics, the author muses on symbiosis with the animal kingdom and truth-telling habits via the youthful uses of Russian comic strips

Sunday 27th November

In search of brains

Jim Gabour, 27 November 2011
What links Los Angeles and New Orleans? Zombies, of course, with tongues protruding through their cheeks. Enjoy your foretaste of Jim Gabour's Sunday Blog series ...
Thursday 17th November

Home on Deranged

Jim Gabour, 17 November 2011
Our author ponders the leadership quality in Texas, from whence he nearly sprung. His asterisks speak volumes.
Friday 30th September

I May Not Be Here

Jim Gabour, 30 September 2011
A tale of chalk, polished nails and generational incomprehension
Sunday 18th September

An update from the southernmost storm front

Jim Gabour, 18 September 2011
Even with the storm, it is still Southern Decadence Weekend and some 100,000 gay folk are partying in and parading through the Quarter. I have never in my fashion-wary life seen so many pairs of mauve and puce madras shorts. Meanwhile my yard rains avocados.
Tuesday 9th August

The summertime alien problem

Jim Gabour, 9 August 2011
I have resolved to spread a message of tolerance to these aliens. Especially since they're already here. And writing tickets.
Saturday 6th August

Court

Jim Gabour, 6 August 2011
Of course, the whole sorry tale ends up in court, bringing the series of fictional character sketches from Jim Gabour’s latest novel, Unimportant People, to a triumphant close.
Friday 5th August

Serving with Precious Slaughter

Jim Gabour, 5 August 2011
... in which Jim expresses his preferences for criminal cases; and in which Slaughter and he are relieved of civil duties
Thursday 4th August

I can see them. They're not there

Jim Gabour, 4 August 2011
A day of media coincidences disgorges its meanings to the last
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