I’ve been on the hunt for a gas grill for the last two months but everything I read and have seen is so goddamn big and shiny and ridiculous. I like the convenience of a propane grill, the taste of a charcoal, and the size of a Coleman stove. But I looked high and low and couldn’t find anything like what I had in mind. Finally I drove out to Kenner yesterday late afternoon to…
Last night I stayed in – I had a lot of work to do and was trying to get caught up since I had to leave my desk early Friday afternoon for a hair appointment. So I’ve felt the weight of work hovering and also just needed down time in general. But that’s almost impossible around here. G called, T called, B called, J and B and K were barbecuing on the bayou, and everyone…
I saw a neighbor doing the walk of shame across the bayou this morning – flanked on one side by a new beau, and the other side by an old beau, and knowing last night was yet a different beau.
In a matter of hours, the smallness of New Orleans was tranparently efficient – the subject: a man. Here’s a guy I’ve seen around town for two years but never met. Turns out a friend knows him – well his first name. Turns out another friend knows him better – knows name and number and has a scheme to fix me up. Turns out this is all getting set up when I happen to Google…
Mom called to tell me that the lab tests were incorrect. That a vitamin she takes makes it seem like she has drugs and alcohol in her blood stream but its a false positive. I told her if that is what she wants to believe, that was fine with me. Then she hung up and I haven’t heard from her since.
On Thursday night we went to Ralph’s but again were struck by the weird crowd that hangs out there so we drove to Ye Old College Inn and found a different scene. We ran into a friend who had old photographs in a file – Walgreens on Canal Street, he and his sons feet in the same brown and white oxfords, pictures of a horse. He wanted us to have lunch with him the next…
I was telling a friend about Annie and she couldn’t believe it. Annie was our hot water heater that was in our kitchen on Louisiana Avenue. My mom painted a face with big eyes and a sweet smile at the top and tied a frilly while apron around the middle and called her Annie. Sometimes, my mom would run out for errands and leave my sister and I home alone with Annie to watch us.
C was walking by the other morning as I was watering Jerri’s plants. We chatted for a while and he said that from his perspective the city was 100% better than it had been when he arrived six months ago. I thought he had been here two years – which shows you my perspective. It was six months ago that he moved in across the hall from me at the Can – the Can? –…
Well summer begins on June 21st doesn’t it? And the 20th marked the last of the Wednesday in the Square free concerts. Why they would close with Bag of Donuts when they had to rain cancel two fabulous bands is beyond me, but hey, whatyagonnado? There was a good crowd out there and we headed over to Emeril’s after for a cocktail and then to Del Forno to celebrate their grand opening. La Vita will…