The Times-Picayune, July, 4, 2009
The article says Brad Pitt has not lived in New Orleans long enough to be eligible:

"Under the City Charter, mayoral candidates must be residents of New Orleans for at least five years before the date of the election. That rule dashed the apparent hopes of former local FBI chief Jim Bernazzani, who suggested last year that he might seek the office, only to learn he hadn't lived here long enough.

Pitt and his partner, actress Angelina Jolie, bought their $3.5 million French Quarter mansion in January 2007, far shy of five years before the Feb. 6, 2010, primary.

In fact, it does not appear that Pitt and Jolie are even registered to vote in New Orleans."

Full article here:

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-34/124668547665260.xml&coll=1

That's why they call it the French Quarter.

Alright, I'll join the kiss and tell club here. I stumbled upon the Sift totally by chance. I went right down the sifted queue and said to myself, "these are actually interesting!" Then I looked at some of the comments and discussions, and they were intelligent and civil, as opposed to those on RudeTube. As time passed, I began to realize this; every unusual character I've ever met, (and subsequently lost touch with), had come back to life. Erudite, delusional, intellectual, cynic, bawdy, pious, they're all here. All except idiots. Exactly how are those filtered out of the Sift and diverted back to YouTube?

I also recognized this early on; there was an expert here to comment on everything, except..........paging Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Dr. Gupta, Oh....he's busy with all that TV mumbo-jumbo, leaving the Sift without a doc on call. So, I'm filling a niche. And NO, I won't write prescriptions for erectile dysfunction. Just send the spammers your credit card number and they will send you some, along with a "Wishing you were here," card from the French Riviera, or the French Quarter, depending on how deep your pockets are. Which reminds me, I'm with CaptWillard, there should be more chicks here. Can't we have a happy hour? a discount? raffles? something to recruit some more feminine perspective? The ladies that do regularly post are gems. We need to mine some more.

Lastly, politically the Sift leans left like the Tower of Pisa (when viewed from the west). Gunrock, myself, and a few others, are walking around to the other side of the tower to see if it looks any different over there.

This was my first time attending this parade. We saw it where it formed in Louis Armstrong Park. The actual parade route in the French Quarter was a mob scene.

If the top 15 of us submitted three videos each day, that would be 45 in the que daily. But there are a lot more of us than just 15. Summer may mean additional participants since some folks are not in school. The growth of membership and videos is going to mean more constraints.

Maybe the limit of 2 will need to be reintroduced. Maybe the time in the que will need to be reduced. Maybe a cap on the number of videos are in the que will encourage more aggressive voting up or down.

As for the tagging discussion, I would like to suggest an increase in the maximum for tags. There have been times when I wanted to have more than the limit because of what was in a video. This might help in tracking videos down and encouraging folks to better label what is submitted.

I am sucker for Monty Python sketches, but there are other comedy troops and individuals out there. I had completely forgotten about “The Two Ronnies” – although I don’t remember where or when I used to watch them eons ago.

Whatever y’all decide, don’t turn this into a drudgery yourselves. I’m reminded of restaurant in Algiers Point (across the river from the French Quarter) - it closed because it became too successful.

Anyway, I need to quit thinking so I can wind down this annoying artist mind of mind . . .