I’m missing G – haven’t seen her in a while because I’ve been caught up with travel and L and LaLa and such. My days and nights can’t seem to encompass all I want from them. I haven’t had a chat and cocktails with T in a while even though she is right down the hall from me. Another T called on Sunday and said it had been a while since we saw each other.…
Last night I went with Lance to Applebee’s for a snack before seeing “Harsh Times” starring Christian Bale. The movie was more of a character study than plot driven – and in the end Bale’s character didn’t change or incur an epiphany – he actually kind of lost steam portraying a cold-hearted violent man scarred by war and killing, who then breaks down and cries when he finds out his Mexican squeeze is pregnant because…
Julio is sanding the floors at the LaLa and he will put the first coat of stain on today. I’m going with the Ebony stain that Nick used on his mother in law’s floors because I really liked those floors the first time I saw them. Julio tried to talk me into the natural red pine color – and it is rich and warm – but I like the ebony stain. Steve suggested I go…
Everyone seems to be focused on the lines around my eyes. I stopped into Saks while in NY to spend a small fortune on wrinkle cream and the woman behind the counter, only two years younger than me, with not a line on her face, said “you have good skin, but, um, the lines around your eyes need help.” L and I were talking about cosmetic surgery as he just visited a friend whose wife…
I went by my mother’s to have dinner, but when I got there she wasn’t hungry and I wasn’t either, so we just sat around and caught up. She said her first love called the other day to check in as he is want to do these fifty something years after the fact. Her apartment was as smoky as the sports bar I was in earlier in the day when I went to have lunch…
At the Three Rivers Festival, I ran across GoGo’s booth – I love her jewelry – I bought one of her cuff bracelets at Jazz Fest this year, a carved silver with green underlay bamboo design. She’s one of three jewelers in New Orleans that are so unique and cool that if you miss her at the Jazz Fest or other festivals, you can now go see her on Magazine Street. She has a Guns…
After carving out a financial roadmap for the LaLa and paying bills this morning, I went for a bike ride with L, mystery ex-bar pilot, and we rode through the Marigny and the Quarter. We stopped at a used bookstore on Barracks and it was there I wondered why it seems I have no time to read in my life? A missive from Susu saying “(my hair dryer broke, it is pouring rain, the milk…
Yesterday, I ran the Crescent City Classic (5K) in 29.10 – my best time so far in a race. That’s right, I’m slow, but I endure. When I came across the finish line, there was no one around to say “atta girl” – so I patted myself on the back and walked home. Afterwards, I drove uptown for Maria to blow dry my hair and then dropped the Bean at L’s house, so she could…
I came across a DVD that intrigued me since L, man of mystery, was a riverboat pilot and this occupation is rich with mythology in these parts of the world. I don’t think the movie is worth watching because even the plot description sounds one dimensional. But it made me think of another river boat pilot – Samuel Clemens – in his early writings he satirized a pilot who wrote for the Picayune called Mark…
Sometimes I don’t want the world at my beck and call – I want to hide under a rock and just hibernate till the world stops spinning. So many good things have happened recently – the Democrats took back the House and possibly will get the Senate. Rumsfield quit. Some things have gone sideways – WalMart announced it will revert from saying Holidays to Christmas so that it has a Christmas shop not a Holiday…