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DO IT AGAIN!

Action: Sitting on the bayou sipping a glass of red wine with my aunt as my uncle strolled around the bayou and Tin crawled up and down out of his chair refusing to dine al fresco in the face of many other interesting things like canoes, duck, cars, sky. A friend rode by on her way around the neighborhood by bike looking at people’s art. Apparently today there was an art opening where people either…

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Let’s make it a day just like today

Well for some reason someone forget to tell Old Man Weather that it is winter and Hanukkah and people are Christmas shopping because it is in the 80s outside and simply gorgeous. My mother’s family is headed across the lake to have lunch here today and the Pitot House is having a craft and book sales on the lawn and my next door neighbor is throwing a party for his significant other’s birthday and has…

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She’s got the whole world in her hands, she’s got the whole wide world in her hands….

Last night, we took our friend to show him a sampling of New Orleans music, and as it happens, we didn’t have to go far. We drove to Frenchman Street where we headed to Three Muses and Luke Winslow-King was playing his renditions of 30s music complete with Washboard Chaz, a tuba and a piano to accompany his raffish good looks. After some delicious tapas, and wonderful music, we headed over to Spotted Cat where…

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Something to do

I was speaking to a good friend who is retiring in the middle of next summer. I said, “WHAT?” because this is someone who should not be idle – he will either kill himself or the rest of us because his mind is racing 8000 steps ahead of his body that is always in motion. Please do something, I implored him. Today I was laying out my plans for 2011 and just knowing that there…

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The Family album

There is an article in Harper’s September issue called Straight Man’s Burden by Jeff Sharlet that speaks about Uganda and the anti-gay persecutions going on. In a country not too far away, in Spain it is legal for all to be married, not just heterosexuals. I was trying to explain to two friends the other day what the Family is all about and what they are doing in Uganda and they listened with mouths agape.…

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Advertisers in search of a message

I called the New Orleans Children’s Museum the other day and the automated message said, “For hours and directions, press 1, for donations, press 2, …” Someone thinks this is a good idea? How about a little subtlety like “if you’d like to support the New Orleans Children’s Museum, press 2”? H20, a spa in town has a giant billboard that says, “Give Outrageously” with two redheads of questionable ages smiling ear to ear surrounded…

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