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The Amazing Signmakers are back this season. Larry and Apple Lane are back with season tickets, in the same seats, with many of the same signs plus a few new ones for the new season. I met with the Lanes briefly before last night game and they were nice enough to show me their new signs.

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There was some speculation about David West’s new tattoos after Hornets media day. But what caught my eye recently was the two new ones he’s sporting on the back of his calves that read “Carpe” and “Diem”. For you non-Latin majors out there, the words mean “seize the day” and they’re much more than just a arbitrary mantra West has for himself.

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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman

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(UPDATE: Video of the dunk is now at the bottom of this post. Note at the end, where the video loops three times, in the top-right corner of the screen you can see Chris Paul waving his arms to get them to in bound the ball).

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While all the talk after last night’s Hornets 100–89 win at the Hive was about Chris Paul’s record-setting performance (he became the first player in NBA history to start the season with six-straight games with 20 points and 10 assists, breaking Oscar Robertson’s record set in the ‘68-’69 season) all the Hornets players could talk about in the locker room was Dwyane Wade’s play.

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Specifically, that monster dunk he had in the third quarter.

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• Now that the hoopla has settled, we take a look at Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s campaign promises to rebuild the Gulf Coast, and make a suggestion or two of our own (8/29 Commission, please, Mr. President-Elect)….

• Clancy DuBos takes his annual look at Da Winnas and Da Loozas left in the dust of this year’s election cycle….

• Alex Woodward gets all green and sustainable, checking out the new BuildSmart initiative from the Alliance for Affordable Energy….

• Kara Nelson finds some cool (and affordable) holiday gifts to save you from the big-box stores and the consumer hell that is Black Friday….

• Bryan Davis and Will Coviello scope out some of the queerer offerings at this year’s Reel Identities Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival, which kicks off Nov. 14….

• …and Noah Bonaparte Pais takes us inside the weird, wonderful, fanciful, fringe-iful world of the New Orleans Fringe Festival, which begins on the 13th.

We’re festival-crazy in southeast Louisiana. See you at today’s Mirliton Festival at Markey Park in the Bywater.