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…
I rode my bike uptown yesterday morning to go to the gym and I realized that I love my bike – for whatever reasons my bike and I are going through some sort of weird love affair right now where I can’t wait to get on it and once I do I don’t want to get off. Stopped by the LaLa because P was there putting in the two sashes that he had fixed. Left…
If you’re brave enough to live your life as an open book then you have to be prepared for it to be interactive in this postmodern life. When I was married to S and living in a house and working at my job there was little anyone could contribute to the tight knit story except maybe the child issue. But it seems in this single life an entire cadre of onlookers have an opinion about…
Finally got in my canoe and christened it yesterday and even though the sun was piping hot and it seemed like I was going to fry out there on the bayou – the water cooled the temp down considerably and a nice breeze blew as T and I paddled towards the lake. Ducklings followed mama ducks and adopted mama ducks, herons stood like statues on the banks, mullets jumped out of the water, and a…
When I saw the NOMA exhibit Katrina Exposed I bought a couple of books from the show – the cover I’ve come to find out is a picture of W’s raft that was here at the Can and when N&B paddled over to get supplies they were handing out stuff to people at the can and J asked if he could have the raft. He is sitting back in the raft with his boots and…