I went and picked up my mother to come back to the LaLa and watch the Academy Awards. G came over and L did too as she is in town from NY. I was so weary it was hard to focus on pulchritude, but it was good having mom over. It was the first time she had seen the house in about two months. Finally, I took mom home and L left and then while…
I can’t tell you how many times people have made reference to the LaLa as a money pit – well after 22 months I came back to the house to find a beautiful tree sitting on top of my dining room table. It was a big mystery. I thought Graham brought it. But she said no then when she came over she searched it entirely for a note. Late that night, when I was walking…
Yesterday was a blur of activity trying to get the house in some sort of presentable shape to host its first party this morning. The Mardi Gras Marathon’s 10 mile mark is right in front and friends were coming by to have mimosas and breakfast. About 7:30PM Robinson, who was over to put in speakers, said there was no way I could get the house ready in the shape it was in – boxes everywhere,…
I’m surrounded by boxes but I couldn’t look inside another one or sweep up another dirt pile. Instead after taking a shower outside and washing my hair – I put on some comfortable clothes and opened a bottle of champagne. G came over and we ordered salads from Italian Pie and toasted to the move in. We sat on the porch so she could smoke and marveled at the fact that I am in the…
Yesterday morning I was going to meet someone who works for my contractor to help me move – I went to Budget on Canal Street to get the truck and it wasn’t open and the place was locked up and all the trucks were next door in the vacant lot. I kept getting my call sent through to the national number and finally the guy said he didn’t know what was going on. So I…
Moving, moving, moving. Here’s the deal – every day something is going to go wrong – lots of things are going to go wrong – and lots of things are going to go right. I’m in! I took a shower in my outdoor shower and looked up at the sky that everyone wanted to put a roof on and instead I was looking at the moon. Hallelujah!
So yesterday was fun, but today it was back to work in earnest along with the myriad to do list that has to do with the LaLa. Nobody showed up for work today – go figure. Well Louie finally did but he didn’t finish – go figure. I bought a new king size bed and it is showing up tomorrow – woo hoo. I borrowed sheets from my mom until I can get the bed…
Got up this morning and came to the LaLa at 7AM to meet James (carpenter number 10) and lo and behold Giovanni sheepishly showed up on the back porch. He looked at me worried we were going to have a row and I said, are you here to work? And he said yes and took off his coat and we resumed normalcy for the day. James put screens in on nearly all the doors and…
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else’s vision. – Penn Jillette
Joe was supposed to help me move but I was trapped like a rat and finally when I could get away I called him and he said he was sitting with his boys drinking beer – but then he said he’d come – and you know what he helped me move my desks and file cabinets up into the office. While we were piling the desks into the elevator he asked me if he could…