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After seeing an Inconvenient Truth this afternoon, today’s heat seems to possess some underlying evil besides having robbed me of my energy. It was interesting to watch Gore present an issue by layering it with his own personal tragedy and loss – usually it’s the woman’s narrative that reads so intimately. Through adversity comes knowledge – again strength of character is forged through life’s tough experience. I think of S, whose experience up until last…
My landline at the Can got turned on today and lo and behold I had 25 voice mail messages on there – some pre-Katrina: Aug 27 – 4:59 PM – Les calling from El Dorado where he went “in case” Katrina hit – he said, “y’all must be busy having a hurricane party” Aug 28 – 9:20 AM – Nick calling saying “someone’s having a fit because he can’t find his Star Wars sticker book…
I have written many times over the years about how much I love my company – the people are one step from normal – a step in the right direction – anyway the following is an example of why I love them – this comes with permission from the founder of the company and he sent the message to the people who actually work in the San Francisco office – most of us work all…
So you think about things in their macro and micro perspective and as I mentioned the other day everything can only be known in contrasts. So when I lay in bed and rode the earthquake at the hotel in SF and then fielded the call from my doctor an hour later saying there was a problem with my mammo – suddenly carrying the cross of New Orleans, the daunting job of finishing the LaLa, the…
Quote of the day comes from Jay Leno: “If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.” Traveling to different cities – NY, SF and Chicago and it is not as if people have forgotten about New Orleans or Katrina – they saw the images, they retain strong feelings for their visits here, no they all say in unison – I’m so sorry about the mayor getting re-elected. Only one person…
NYT quote of the day: “I thought I could weather the storm, and I did — it’s the aftermath that’s killing me.” GINA BARBE, of New Orleans. Indeed Gina, coping mechanisms kick in and help most people endure crisis. As I lay in bed on Thursday morning last week and felt the 4.7 earthquake in San Francisco, I thought eh, are natural disasters stalking me. Later when I was served up my exact words in…
The IPOD Shuffle meets the Real Life Shuffle E says “I remember when you first came in, you told me, ‘I am a sexual being’” (S downloads the Dead Kennedy’s version of Too Drunk to Fuck after I play him Nouvelle Vague’s cover – mine is all breath and giggles, the girl’s version – his is ramming guitar) New Orleans and I have been in a drought – on day 137, mine ended, albeit temporarily…
So today was yesterday redux – LaLa and more – exponentially – and yet I neglected to mention on Sunday I took Jacob to see Cars and he was a little love machine and Cars sucked! Come on Pixar – what is that? Unfit for kids or adults. Tsk tsk. But meanwhile Jacob who is two and a half couldn’t say my name so he insisted on calling me Ocho – and hey, I kind…
NYT this morning writes: “Now, as the [NOPD] department tries to fight its way back, sharp budget cuts — and a recent spike in drug-related killings in the city — are adding to fears that years of overhauls and modernization may be undone, and that New Orleans could return to its former notoriety as one of the nation’s murder capitals. A colleague from Massachusetts writes: Every time I open Yahoo I see a new “weather…
Who are these nutballs who undertake home remodels on their own volition – are they masochists? – the to do lists come like tsunamis – although the day started kind of nice – the BSF ran by twice with his usual charming dimples, T almost ran me and Arlene over on his bike, I thought I saw L, man of mystery, walking his dogs and remembered I hadn’t called him back, and then when he…