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I read this in the NYT this morning: From northern Africa to the Persian Gulf, governments appeared to flounder over just how to outrun mostly peaceful movements, spreading erratically like lava erupting from a volcano, with no predictable end… But there was also a pervasive sense that a shared system of poor governance by one party, one family or one clique of military officers backed by brutal secret police was collapsing. A new generation has…
What happens when Batman throws his trumpet? Wonder Woman takes it away. Batman doesn’t like that. Watch out Batman, Wonder Woman is documenting your life.
I read a while back that Greg Allman had a new album out called Low Country Blues. Seeing how this is my year of austerity and I made a deal with the devil to buy no book and no music, I was in a trick bag. So I found a way out of it. I asked T to buy it for me for my birthday! Genius. I have an affinity for the Allman Brothers music,…
Our gym teacher at NOAC has been sick. Real sick. He got the flu last week and went down like a House of Cards, but in his case more like a House of Bricks, because he had been trying to overcome for a week but finally the Flu reared its ugly head and beat him. Meanwhile, us, his tribe of middle aged women sprinkled with a young way too energetic girl and a few boy…
The first parade of Mardi Gras in our book starts this Saturday night with Krewe du Vieux and the theme this year is 25 Years Wasted. For Tin, who saw Mardi Gras last year for the first time, this will be his real first because it will have his favorite theme: MARCHING BANDS! For adults, it is simply the best parade to kick off Mardi Gras with, hands down. Don Marshall is the king this…
I watched at first with fascination as Dan Happel, Chairman, Madison County GOP, talked to Anderson Cooper (the king of Endymion this year btw) about his bill he wants adopted to protect our country from non-birthers getting elected president. My mouth was agape as the interview proceeded because this guy was truly believing what he was saying – at first I thought it was Alan Abel wantabe proposing this but no, turns out there are…
The plein air painters are back in City Park again and it always makes me happy to see them. I fell in love with this style of painting when my upstairs neighbors in San Francisco were Randall Sexton and Kim Frohsin, two seriously talented painters. Steve and I were lucky enough to get on the ground floor so to speak and buy some of their paintings when they and we were young. When T and…
So I really did naively believe when I was working on the LaLa that I was putting in all the effort (read: money) to not have to have much upkeep throughout the rest of my life here. Well that didn’t work. It has been maintenance maintenance maintenance galore. Today I think the last coat went on the columns and truly, they have never looked more stunning than they do now. Next project Rudy is working…
Tin’s birthday is around the corner and we’ve decided to keep it rather simple since it happens to fall on Endymion Saturday – the only krewe that marches in our neighborhood. So I picked up the party favors and plates and napkins and it’s all Elmo this year. That is his favorite right now – the magic tricks that Elmo and characters do – the abracadabra and poof! Last year it was Evan, this year…