Jim Gabour

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.

Living with Gustav

Turkey and ducks and Gustav gumbo "I am prepared to eat and drink well in adversity. What else is there to do." It's a boy, this

By Jim Gabour

/ 1 Sep 2008

Hardware madness

* Steam - click to read Jim Gabour's anniversary short story "So I hope I can count on you come next Saturday. This election is so important to

By Jim Gabour

/ 24 Aug 2008

Ruling Louisiana

Important issues, matters which will define who we are as a people, took centre-stage at the just-ended legislative session in the state of Louisiana. The universal and the trivial roared

By Jim Gabour

/ 23 Jul 2008

Valuing a single small life in the face of global disaster

_____________________________________________________________________________ He was deserted by his mother at birth and survived by his wits as a literal infant. He begged for food from seedier neighbourhood hangers-on, those scarcely better off than

By Jim Gabour

/ 2 Jun 2008

Show me some ID, so I can kill you

Another murderer taken off the street. Another case resolved. This is how we handle killers now, especially gang members - we identify them, publicise their names and faces, and then

By Jim Gabour

/ 30 Apr 2008

Jesus pulls a right cross

Lundi Gras - the "fat Monday" before Mardi Gras, "fat Tuesday" - dawns dry and perfectly blue, though dampened by official predictions of storms and fluctuating

By Jim Gabour

/ 25 Feb 2008

Windfall

Dead, they were all dead. Spring 2006 was marked in New Orleans by the appearance, in patios and yards everywhere, of thick carpets composed of unmoving migratory butterflies, jewelled dragonflies,

By Jim Gabour

/ 17 Dec 2007

The upper crust

"Look at those balconies", said Priscilla Fogarty, short, shrill, and solid. Priscilla, brilliantly and unnaturally redheaded, was encased in a polished silver linen suit that looked as unwrinkled

By Jim Gabour

/ 8 Nov 2007

Number One with a bullet

To begin with, three episodes in an unfolding story: United States House of Representatives - Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary (16 April

By Jim Gabour

/ 22 Oct 2007

Native to America

I was eating my second raw dozen, balancing a paper plate full of food while standing on the slippery banks of the Amite River, a man dedicated to the consumption

By Jim Gabour

/ 26 Sep 2007

The recurring anniversary of wilderness

The date has come round again, and in search of a fresh feelgood headline, national statisticians are reporting vast numbers in the news, indicating hugely increased percentages of returned population

By Jim Gabour

/ 28 Aug 2007

Lessons in the classics

During my simultaneous house restoration and television-series production, I had been too busy to deal with the stove, what with alternating surprise bouts of plumbing and sound re-edits, and also

By Jim Gabour

/ 6 Aug 2007