Last night a bunch of us from the neighborhood went to support a friend who has taken the position of marketing director for a gentlemen’s club in the Quarter. All of the hospitality directors from around the area were invited to attend. We went – us not in hospitality – to offer a show of numbers and support to our friend. A friend bought me a lapdance with a gorgeous woman – as she came…
A development company called Victory apparently has dibs on some property starting right by where the Can is to Carrolton – they already developed the Sav-A-Center and the Home Depot on Carrolton. They are proposing a massive retail development that includes Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, Dickie’s Sporting Goods, as well as other national chain stores. A dilemma for sure. We all want to keep our tax dollars in Orleans Parish and right now we…
I met a client at this restaurant in NY and can I tell you that every single bite was so deliciious – one caveat – it’s expensive as hell – but worth it – very great.
I went by Swirl yesterday after the closing on my refi and Beth chilled a bottle of Domaine Carneros La Reve and I called G and she called K and soon we were toasting to two years of financial stress that almost did me in. Sylvia came to demo Eberle wines and then Tommy came by to see what was going on as it was such a beautiful day. It’s all good – we drank…
Today I refinanced the LaLa – FINALLY – and with this financial burden behind me, I’ve been thinking about adopting a child – the price of a child’s head these days goes for about $35,000 to $50,000. A big financial burden after the LaLa. Is it worth it – yes, I think so. But I’ve been trying to figure it all out – will I be traveling a lot like I do for work? without…
I landed in NY and on the taxi ride into the city passed a billboard for Volkswagon that had a canary yellow bug and read “Misery has enough company, Dare to be happy.” Wow – I text G and said now that is a great ad. Because it made me smile. The yellow bug, the dare, all of it. And so I approached the next days with that attitude – there is a lot of…
I’m always amazed at how noisy New York is – literally I wake up to birds chirping every morning – and at the Muse I would lay there with the windows open (because I need the windows open) and hear the sounds of garbage trucks, tourists yelling in the street, humming of white noise and whir, and just think MAKE IT STOP – you live in a still place – a place like New Orleans…
Possibly my favorite line in the world – because I use it so often – but I was reading Carolyn Hax in the Sunday paper and she finished one of her advice columns with What are you going to do? Ha! A woman had written in that she is with someone who lacks initiative so she does all the initiating – she said her friends tell her she’s supposed to lay low and make him…
At 4 this morning I got a text from TL that there was a big fire on Gentilly and Ponce de Leon – first thing I wondered if it was the crack house – next I worried about Daphne (not sure where her house is) and then I worried about Pauly the cat who might be out there in the mayhem. Since worry is what I do best I lay there wondering if G had…
“Crying doesn’t make me any less of a man. To not show emotion, you’re an idiot, or you’re living a pipe dream. If someone were to tell me not to show emotion, I’d hit them in the lip.” LT. COL. MORRIS GOINS, reflecting on soldiers’ reactions to losing comrades in Iraq. I was speaking to a friend yesterday about the ability to pull the trigger. I said I know I couldn’t kill someone. He was…