Divorces are common post-Katrina – but this one is messier – it involved friendships and trust and broken hearts and love’s labor lost. Eternity was in our lips and yes, Bliss in our brows bent ………………………Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra Steve was the Antony to my Cleopatra, but he befriended a snake who used his charms to wound the whole lot of us as tight as possible and when havoc was sufficently wrecked across all lives,…
On 7/25/06 9:59 AM, H (who stayed during Katrina) responds: Rachel and all: I agree. T and I have said the same thing. The Can was and is an island as a result of Katrina and we wanted to stay close on this anniversary. I want to eat cooked food, drink cold drinks and use electricity on this anniversary… Playing devil’s advocate (this is almost literal) though, Ray is probably doing this celebration not for…
I asked T how come we haven’t heard from C Ray, she said, I was wondering the same thing, then G said she was worried because no one has heard from him. DOES NEW ORLEANS HAVE A MAYOR? – for all of you non-New Orleanians that felt sorry for us when he got re-elected: could you find our mayor for us? He has gone underground while our pumps are not working (that is a well-kept…
So the other night V and I were talking about the house next door to L, man of mystery. She said the woman now lives in back of her, in her double, and that she sold it because “her daughter slept with a black man and got pregnant” – V said she told the woman “You sold a whole house on account of that? Damn!” So I told V and A about when I was…
Friday at Sipping with 7 – as we made our way out of the first room (which turned out to be the best) I ran smack into the BSF – we ended up in line together in the next room, in the dark, waiting for Love Potion #9 – he is even more of a stone fox up close – oh my – his name is T and T is redoing his house on Taft…
Friday started off on the right foot – the delivery guy from Saia said he had no idea where MidCity was and could I meet him at Five Happiness – a character to the say the least, from the West Bank – the day continued in that fashion with an eldery woman asking me if I could check out her parking for her – and I felt like all day I was trying to spread…
Reading blogs in Beirut and Israel on huffingtonpost.com – the world has gone bloody insane. New from New Orleans – Ocshner is buying the Tenet Hospitals – do you know how great this is? Ocshner is so far superior than Tenet, it is a strong commitment to the city, and goodness knows we need these hospitals. Odd thing – I went out to MeauxBar last night with friends – it started pouring right before I…
Yesterday was, how should I say in English, sucky. But I’ll spare you those parts in my quest to focus on the positive. Well, so one thing – had a big call on Yahoo that went down the tubes – 14% down – for no good reason other than the usual trigger happy response of young boys who have unreasonable expectations. But on the flip side, a source turned me onto one of the latest…
I lit my sort of novena candle and am waiting on news tomorrow the bank will give me a personal loan. Why? Because I learned this morning I can’t get a refi on the mortgage or more money on my home equity because they won’t lend money unless the house is 95% completed. Say what? That’s right folks. So today after S talked me off the ledge – the cost to do this house was…
imbroglio: a complicated and embarrassing state of things. quandary: a state of difficulty or perplexity Here’s how a fabulous day is made in New Orleans. My bike is still in the shop from my ditch diving and so I walked the Bean – then knocked on H&T’s door to get them to come clean the bayou with me. Roped a big limb in the bayou (I want to be a cowgirl) and used Big Blue…