Month: June 2007

I sent this email to someone today because I’m sick of the naysaying about New Orleans from people who don’t know jack shit about this city and what it was like pre Katrina and what it is like post Katrina: Dear […..] Re: Crime in New Orleans Can I tell you something – this is being horribly over reported in the press everywhere and to the detriment of New Orleans. Does New Orleans have a…

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My LG phone started shutting down on its own and so I went to Verizon and they ordered a replacement phone ($50) and had it sent to my house. Meanwhile, it arrived day before yesterday and so yesterday I took the phone for them to transfer my phone numbers. Then that phone turned buggy and by morning wouldn’t even turn on. So I went back to Verizon and they said oh yeah, that model is…

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The original Whole Foods spot on Esplanade and Ponce de Leone, the long time community grocery that had patrons the likes of Lenny Kravitz, has become a real source of contention for us in MidCity because the big Whole Food – the one that is supposed to be so community friendly, but who left the community stranded without a grocery in order to open two obscenely huge big box stores – sold the market to…

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When I was separating from S and B was no longer going to work on the house and N was going to help me and all of that mess was going on, B made the comment that he didn’t want to work at this house because it was filled with bad vibes. Wow. Flash forward one and a half years, I ran into Gomez on the bayou this evening with his friends T&K and they…

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I walked Arlene after supper tonight and as we crossed the Magnolia Bridge, we saw a group of people setting up chairs and pulling out of baskets – cheese, wine, bread, glasses – and it was a warm, breezy night with soft waves skimming the bayou – and all Arlene wanted to do was get back to the house.

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J came with me to run an errand today and he said, “Ocho, thanks for coming to pick me up from school today.” What a sweetie pie! Of course, he didn’t want to get a snowball with me later, he wanted to get the snowball with his father who had promised him the snowball. But still a sweetie. Then he fell asleep and took an hour and a half nap while I drove around New…

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This is when I love my job – when all of the newspapers, trade journals and email alerts are sending X information and I speak to my sources and find out things are Y. That is when the plan comes together because why does the press look to sensationalize everything instead of seeing the nuances and then reporting on them? Anyway, it was a good day today – a day of reporting the nuances and…

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Driving behind a car today with a bumper sticker that read “I eat tofu, and I vote.” Is there some kind of anti-tofu candidate that I am unaware of?

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Mom called tonight to tell me she no longer is working at the nursing home – said it was too much for her – ya think? – so that was about the only thing that made sense today.

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I got home to an email from my attorney saying that my neighbors wanted damages for the heavy equipment that was driven over their driveway. I have no clue what they are talking about and told my attorney that. Then I opened my mail – a bill for my landscaping that was for three times the amount I had contracted for. I just shook my head in disbelief. Then I called the landscaper – he…

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