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.

Vladimir & Barack do the shake

Inspired by the attention given to Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin's shaking of hands on American news networks our Sunday Comics author digs into the cultural archaeology of the handshake

By Jim Gabour

/ 8 Sep 2013

Authentic foon

Our Sunday Comics author recalls three experiences of intense culinary and self-transportation

By Jim Gabour

/ 18 Aug 2013

Everything

Our Sunday Comics author stumbles upon a single childhood curseword as he gives us his version of everything

By Jim Gabour

/ 11 Aug 2013

Taste of the lash

The strange reappearance of a whip-cracking cowboy from the silver screen leads to considerations on how life is measured in smaller and smaller increments of time from every electronic device.

By Jim Gabour

/ 4 Aug 2013

Scripted

A day trip to an interactive museum in a South Louisiana bayou offers our Sunday Comics columnist the chance to sample a different reality

By Jim Gabour

/ 28 Jul 2013

In your ear

A quarter of all e-commerce will be conducted by mobile devices by 2016. Our Sunday Comics columnist, after a repulsive dream, tracks the various intrusions into his life via his phone

By Jim Gabour

/ 21 Jul 2013

As six heads of state try and dominate chance in a darkened room, our Sunday Comics columnist takes us on a journey through the gambling culture of New Orleans, introducing us to the characters who ultimately have a lesson or two for our leaders

By Jim Gabour

/ 14 Jul 2013

On auto

A momentary blank when driving his own car leads our Sunday Comics author to remember a visit to London and the disorientation experienced routinely by transported bodies

By Jim Gabour

/ 7 Jul 2013

Director to Brad Pitt: “Cue audio for deep-fat cultural self-destruction”

Our Sunday Comics columnist on TV cook Paula Deen's racist comments, the true nature of Southern gentility, and the zombie hordes threatening to climb the walls

By Jim Gabour

/ 30 Jun 2013

Just another poor boy

Our Sunday Comics columnist reflects on the various origins of poor boys

By Jim Gabour

/ 23 Jun 2013

Skewed food & military surveillance: that means six-count shrimp, three-for-one catfish, and two-engine bigeyed bombers

As a storm approaches our Sunday Comics columnist finds himself between the bounties of the Gulf of Mexico, the one-size-fits-all supermarket and the sounds of spy planes overhead

By Jim Gabour

/ 9 Jun 2013

Sex changes, groupies, and drag queens - all in the family

Our Sunday Comics columnist dips his toes into the water and considers the social and sexual flexibility of the parrotfish, finding resonances with his own kind

By Jim Gabour

/ 2 Jun 2013