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O has returned from Russia, having gone to see her new niece, and she returns filled with passion of Russia once again. She brought me back colorful matryoshka dolls with fairy tale scenes on them – you know them – they are the dolls within a doll. She is my daily co-pilot – we’ve been working together since I took over the Cyclicals group with my Media coverage back in 2002, she came with me…
My cousin E and her husband K are coming in this weekend for his 40th birthday – they’ve sent a care package ahead of time to help celebrate. Last time I saw K, he came to SF and had brass knuckles in his pocket “in case” – I wonder what sort of artillery might he bring to New Orleans? E is the daughter of my father’s cousin. This side of the family is the most…
I was thinking about S back in San Francisco in his tidy apartment and I thought sometimes when things are totally spinning here, I entertain for a fleeting moment leaving for normalcy, but the better part of me, the 95% of me, maybe even the 98%, will take insanity over a tidy world any day and that’s what makes us special down here in New Orleans.
Vic is returning from vacation this Tuesday and I need for the rain to go away! It’s impeding progress. I finally got some sleep last night and went outside with the Bean this morning and it looked like the black sky was moving away, so I returned and got on my bike for a nice long ride. It was really one of the best rides I have had in a long time – I stayed…
I feel like K is putting gris gris on the LaLa and so I am going to talk to Steve tomorrow and ask him if he has someone else. I don’t appreciate someone holding me hostage on my own house that I am paying a bloody fortune to restore – plus he’s from Michigan, a carpet bagger, and I’d rather, if I could, give my money to a local. K called again and left a…
R said not only has Wit’s End come back better, but between it and Rooster’s the burger joint that opened not too long ago is going a noodle shop that used to be uptown.
K’s messages last night were him wanting me to come clean up on Sunday and help him, and he asked me to bring him coffee this morning. He leaves after Wednesday – I’m struggling between telling him not to come back and just going back to the arrangement that I imposed before – he speaks only to S, the contractor and not to me. I’m going to ask Steve if he has another carpenter because…
I signed up for a few races coming up but my foot needs to heal before I can even put running shoes on again. Now that Abby is born, L is starting to train again and we are thinking of doing the Mardi Gras Marathon next year – I think I’ll do a half, she can do the whole – one marathon is all I need notched on my belt – but the halfs –…
When the heat wave passed through California weeks ago, I said those are not happy cows – the 15,000 cows that died – it was a joke, kind of, but no one here in New Orleans understood the reference. You’d have to see the local Happy Cow commercials – http://www.realcaliforniacheese.com/ – they dominate the California airwaves. I’ve been doing a rain dance so that it stays dry enough for Vic to come back from vacation…
Henry was doing my hair on Friday and he was going over just how utterly absurd the Marinello murder case is – and believe me it is pure, unadulterated New Orleans crime at its best. Kind of like the Free Carmella days. Henry is a total stone fox, with a great body, and lots of junk in the trunk, which is one of the reasons I still go to him even while I won’t let…