I’ve never figured out who Jessica or Nick is but they appear in the news and tabloids quite often. I consider it a blessing that I have escaped knowing them. Today I went to the attorney’s office and signed my own divorce papers in order to expedite my home refinancing – which after today needs to be expedited. Orleans Sheet Metal showed up – T with the beautiful mouth, who has taken over his daddy’s…
I was thinking about a couple of things that I wanted to jot down when I was taxiing into JFK – I wore my “Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was gone” tee shirt on the plane and you can’t believe how many people approached me to just talk about their experiences. I was in the elevator in NY and a family got on with all the girls wearing some fashion of…
I happen to like New York. The electricity kept going out in the Can last night – and interspersed with waking knowledge that this was happening was concern for those polar bears trying to grab onto an iceberg and only getting shards – then drowning from the long distances they have to swim to get to a safe haven. When the lights go out the Can has emergency lights that switch on – I wasn’t…
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…