A nice relaxing Sunday morning after spending the evening with my Turkish friends at their almost opened Del Forno – we ended up eating at The Bank on its penultimate night before Alex moves to New York forever. I wanted to read a little bit of the paper before takng Arlene out – she was sunning herself on the front porch – wanted to see who won the Preakness – and while I was in…
A woman at Pilates said she had to marry her husband because they were the only people in New Orleans neither was related to. Yesterday, right after I got out of the shower, a woman knocked at the door and turns out she’s my cousin! She said my uncle had told her what my house looks like and so she came to see if she could find it and me. How cool is that?
Craig had us all read Blink and it is a pretty interesting theory – that the first impression is the correct one. So I was speaking to a colleague recently who had read it and we were talking about this guy I recently met and I said I thought he was gay the first time I saw him and G thought he was the second time we ran into him and didn’t recognize where we…
I ran into a friend last night who is recently out of an 8-year relationship. She said she ran into her ex with her latest hot squeeze at Jazz Fest and tried to be big about the whole thing but it did unnerve her. The rub is that she was the one who wanted out of the relationship. I told her that I’ve learned that it’s almost worse when you’re the one that wanted out…
At Swirl last night the crowd was more local than it has been lately, which is much more to my liking. We hung out for a while then went over to La Vita but F wasn’t there and it makes such a difference when she’s not – as we were walking to the truck we ran into H&T, and T told me that L had gone to get hair cut and didn’t like it so…
Arrived from Chicago to a notice from my neighbor’s attorney that I cannot stand in his driveway or he will file an injunction against me. It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity – are you familiar with this saying – we have examples of the stupids all around us – but I had the good fortune to have the LaLa right up against the stupidest of all. I’m waiting for him to pass in front…
that’s how it feels to not be able to exercise for the last two months because of my foot and to be eating like I’m on a cruise – what goes on? – so today, jeans tight, one more steak dinner, and I’m done – sick of it all and can’t wait to get on my bike and off the hoof.
Walking to my hotel down Michigan Avenue in Chicago I saw our streetcar on the corner – I went over and asked what was going on and found out the Louisiana Tourism office had sent the streetcar here with staff and brochures to make people aware of New Orleans and that we are open for business. How great is that? I had the woman take a photo of me hanging off the streetcar.
I met this tall black man today on Michigan Avenue – we got to talking and he said he was from Mississippi but had been in Chicago for 35 years. He said he was looking to retire somewhere – maybe Atlanta, maybe in Texas – I said well you certainly don’t want to come to New Orleans – the opportunities for a black man are limited. Then about 20 minutes later I ran to find…
There was an article recently about cable now going to get movie releases at the same time they appear in theaters. I remember the big screen – Northpoint Theater in San Francisco – huge. It was an experience to go watch a movie there. And sadly they closed when the Sony theaters opened at 5th and Mission – the more hi-tech sound, the stadium seats, and a cluster of them showing a variety of different…