My neighbor’s garage door is open all day – 24/7 – must mean Mardi Gras is getting close and that shopping cart is going to be reimagined into a fantasy world that my neighbor and his friends will live in for all of Fat Tuesday before they go back to being not so ordinary people.
Recycling comes to the City of New Orleans – sign up now for your bin. Thank you Mayor Landrieu – boo to you Nagin.
“It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.”~ Mark Twain
Joe came to take care of some garden work for me and commented that a) he does not like my hair and thinks it does not look like me, and b) that I have certainly been gaining weight. Thanks Joe. As a matter of fact, Scott did exactly what I asked him to do – tone down the blonde, cut off the long shag and give me bang-tox (his word) and when he was done…
When I remember I buy a Powerball in memory of my mother who every time I would go to visit would ask me to stop off and get her a winning ticket. This time when I bought it the cashier did a magic wave of his hands to make it the winning ticket and the gentleman standing next to me told me I already looked like a winner. I saw the same guy in Walgreen’s…
So I tell the eye doctor that when I blink my eyes the frames sometimes shift in this weird way – sometimes the image takes on sepia tones and sometimes it just is a different frame with every moved slightly. He said that’s because I have astigmatism – which I always thought was a stigmatism btw – and he said my glass should work for that intermediate distance which is when I experience it. I…
I woke this morning after not one but three margaritas last night due to a waiter error. Seriously, I only ordered one. Meanwhile, I had to get Tin up for a doctor’s appointment and I stubbed my little pinky toe on the side of his bed while he was demanding Dizzy Gillespie’s Salt Peanuts and his drum (ruling from the crib no less). I tried to get it all back together and not lose the…
Finally got a moment to watch The Louise Logs, Episode #22: How to Lose Weight. I don’t want to give away the show, but do tune in – it’s a good one. Louise at her best! My favorite line from the show: “This just got mind bendingly weird.” Right up there with Oprah’s “This is getting interestinger and interestinger.”
If ever the city needed a poet who speaks for its soul, New Orleans needs one and here is one of NOLA’s finest – a posting to his Facebook page: Murder in New Orleans by Chuck Perkins on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 8:49pm The phrase, “a lot of my friends are dead or in jail”, no longer evokes shock or horror”, its meaning has become tamed. Too many mentions in movies and songs; too much…