Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 13hIt’s so fun when the rank and file at media orgs hate their bosses so much they leak like a Pinto. Jim Amoss once addressed the newsroom about not speaking to outside journalists and leaking and I had a photo of him doing so on the Gambit website before he was done. 041 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 15hMoving van arrives Wednesday. A bit overwhelmed. Anyone who’s done a cross country move, please weigh in. I moved from New Orleans in a pod and this will be an 18-wheeler. 461 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Newspapers that have typefaces that didn’t exist at the time, newspapers that would have been set in hot type obviously designed by computer, newspapers … 040 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The Saints honored Ditka today by playing like he still was coaching the team. Respect. 0233 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The social media team doesn’t care enough to notice this happened in July. 180 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026If I remember correctly the Church’s chicken next to Fats Domino’s house used to let him and no one but him walk through the drive thru 110 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Chicago: HE DIED, OHMIGOD, WHAT A GIANT, WHAT A GREAT MAN, AN ERA HAS ENDED New Orleans: runs some wire copy, proceeds to forget about it immediately 3130 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026And the worst Saints coach ever by a wide margin 000 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026No, his contempt for the city and its people deserves reciprocity 030 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I also remember Diana Ditka saying of the Saints, “Jesus Christ himself couldn’t turn them around.” Jim Haslett and Sean Payton could. Her oafish husband couldn’t. 031 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026From that Sports Illustrated interview in 1998. Worth noting that besides losing football games and flipping off fans, the big tough guy was also SCARED OF MIMES 4185 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Siri, can I make ‘not jacking off’ into a new career?” 030 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“‘Cution of the Week” brought to you by Draft Kings and Raising Cane’s. One love!” 030 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Got my Covid shot Tuesday. Didn’t hurt a bit but I ended up falling asleep two hours early. 010 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Tomorrow, RFKJ: “Actually sodium, which is what road salt is, is a vital nutrient” 010 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ellen could have used it. In her “autobiography” on page 1 she mentions being born at “Oschner.” 230 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Packing my millions of books and came across my unauthorized biography 0121 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I kept a shared calendar. Staff could see who had what days off and what major issues were planned (Jazz Fest, Mardi Gras, etc.). They could then make their plans and schedule their own vacations and absences. 010 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Spelling 🐝 didn’t accept the legit word CHILBLAIN, which would have been a pangram and now I’m rooting for newspaper layoffs due to fake news 060 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We are so far from norms or the law and no one with any authority is doing anything about it. It’s a helpless and hopeless feeling. 0113 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026That’s supermarket sushi quality. One of them looks like a pig in a blanket. 110 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Right now it’s “The Midnight Sun” as it’s October and going to be 105 tomorrow 010 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m so old that I remember when an anchor job at WWL was a sinecure and it was huge news when “Garland” or “Angela” left. Now it’s a revolving door. 160 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There was a place in Gert Town with no one under 30, no curlers, no bonnets. It was painted on the door. 000 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When I was at Gambit we did numerous stories about high rates of new HIV infection in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, as no one else seemed to be reporting it. That’s what took me quite so aback here. 162 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yes, a weird only-in-New Orleans sidebar to the whole thing. Woman was also sued by LaToya. 150 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Big Facebook controversy over a chain of French Quarter gay bars banning Crescent Care from HIV and other health tests, and given the names involved I think it will escape social media containment and move into local news soon. 9145 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I always had a bit of imposter syndrome about not going to j-school, but the current administration cured all thoughts of that. Now I see it as being paid to learn my craft. 010 0
Reposted by Kevin AllmanTim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here. 111122166 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Good story. IMO Tabasco adds flat heat, nothing else. Crystal adds depth and draws out flavor. 4103 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This summer has been brutal and shows no let up into fall. And I think it’s the new normal. 030 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Something I found while packing: my souvenir from interviewing one of the 20th century’s true geniuses. 0110 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Your dating preferences are of no interest to me, sir. 030 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I miss @jdickerson.bsky.social. Hell of a lede on this one. 020 0
Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just saw my first Christmas ad, so: well done, Walmart 000 0