Laughing Sam’s Discs

06/11/2026

Guilty pleasures? Oh yea I got ‘em! is coming home with me!

06/11/2026

We’re excited to have the Snake Doctors performing this Saturday! However, the drummer is a bit of a troublemaker. He tends to blow the roof off! See you all Saturday on St. Denis!

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06/10/2026

St. Denis’ Second Saturday will have the great Snake Doctors performing! Of course the great shops on the street, food trucks, vendors and a great time! see you there!

06/09/2026

Mellow night tonight! This is a unique listen. It’s apparently an album made to sell songs and sent to people. Not an incredibly rare album, but definitely unique. What’s everyone else listening to?

06/08/2026

Folks have been asking about our next $1 sale, so it’s happening, June 20th! We’ve got some recent collections in and they had some great titles. Some were less than perfect, so we’re selling them for a buck! Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

06/08/2026

Check out Jesse Poole’s Beyond the Lights. A new series spotlighting Natchitoches’ most important resource: its people.

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Prem Krishna Gongaju
Educator, Philosopher, Former Student Life Advisor & Teacher
Nepal to Natchitoches

“Prem Krishna Gongaju—that’s my name. I come from the land of snow and yeti to the Westerners.”

Born in Kathmandu, Nepal—“a beautiful valley that could have served as an Eden for my boyhood”—Prem first came to the United States on September 9, 1967.

He credits that journey to his brother, who, as Prem puts it, “moved heaven and earth” to make it possible.

“It was his one giant act of sacrifice and love.”

Nearly three decades later, in 1996, he arrived in Natchitoches.

“School started.”

And with it, something clicked.
“I had arrived. I found my niche.”

What brought him here was more than work.

“I always wanted to cross the Mason-Dixon line... unless you have broken bread with the people, you only know through the head.”

That search for understanding led him to the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, where he would spend twenty-five years as Student Life Advisor and teacher of World Religions.

A quarter of a century shaping young minds.

To him, it was never simply employment.
“It wasn’t just a job. It was a calling.”

When asked what those years meant to him, his answer was pure Prem: “It was a garden of saplings to humanity.”

And maybe no quote captures his philosophy more clearly than this:

“People are plants and plants are people. The same care I give to plants, I give to people.”

When asked what Natchitoches means to him, he spoke with both affection and honesty.

“What I like is the City of Lights. It’s a beautiful thing.”

But he also offered a harder truth:

“Every town has lights and blight.”

That tension—the visible glow and the unseen reality beneath it—is exactly what this project is about.

Still, his faith remains rooted in people.

“When they break bread with you, that could be the beginning of the end of racism.”

And in the end, his purpose was never about status or reward.

“Money was never the prime motivator for me. It was something of service.”

“The job was the privilege.”

This is Prem Krishna Gongaju.
A teacher. A philosopher. A storyteller.

One of the many people whose quiet work helped shape this city...

Beyond the Lights.
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Shot on Canon USA

06/05/2026

Hey fans! We’ve got in a nice collection all in great shape! If you’re looking for B.J.’s, we got ‘em! Wait a minute…..that didn’t come out right.

06/05/2026

Small businesses! Food trucks! Come be a part of the Natchitoches Business Festival July 11th. This is the perfect way to get exposure, meet fellow entrepreneurs and network with each other. Contact KKPE at 318-413-7829

06/05/2026

We got in some really cool titles! Come on in and check it out!!

06/04/2026

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