In late May and early June I'm hitting the road again for a week-long trip to New Orleans, a city I've never visited before. Naturally, I'm going there to hunt nutria, muscovy ducks and various other invasive species for my second book, 'Eating Aliens.'I will be accompanied by Grant Stoddard, who is writing an article about my work for Men's Journal magazine. Grant and I met by chance in Florida last summer when we were both on Gasparilla island to hunt iguanas with George Cera. I had been reading his work in publications like Nerve and the New York Post for years and was really very pleased when he of all people happened to walk into George's living room. I put him in my TV pilot (he's the guy wearing sunglasses, sitting at the table with us drinking a beer and eating iguana tacos at the end) and we kept in touch afterward.
Neither of us seems to know anyone in New Orleans and it would be really great if we could find some locals to meet up with on arrival. Especially anyone who can help us with local knowledge about where to go either in New Orleans or out on the bayou to hunt and fish for invasive species.
[Photo by Robert Leo Smith, Jr. From left to right, that's me, George and Grant]
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