A white truck drove into the bayou and that is where the facts stop and the drama begins. As police, cars, people, dogs, children, bikes gathered around the tow truck this afternoon watching a diver wearing a big yellow diving helmet going up and down to attach the strings to the white truck stories began to take shape. My neighbor returned from Terranova where he heard it was a jealous girlfriend following behind her boyfriend…
A woman drove up the other day and handed me my Yellow Pages. I wanted to hand them back to her but instead let her drive to the next house and marched over to the recycle bin and threw it in. Yellow Pages? Is she serious? Are they serious? Dead to me. The Times Picayune is thrown to my front yard Monday through Saturday and the New York Times on Sunday. I read the newspaper…
Yes dear readers, the evil twin is back, the one who sits around and harps about how things are all going to hell in a hand-basket. Surely there is a way out of my miasma, but which path to take? Is it the road untraveled, the road more familiar but still risky, is it non-action or bold action that is required, should we sell the LaLa and move to an apartment, should we, should I,…
“Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.” ~Louis Sullivan The other day a group of architectural students on bikes made their way to the LaLa to admire it. Of particular note to them was the red camelback that isn’t a camelback but instead is my office tower, yes I have an office tower, where all the important things go on. Maybe that is not entirely true as very important things happen on the…
The President sent me an email this morning. This morning, the President proposed the “Buffett Rule,” which would require those earning more than $1 million a year to pay the same share of their income in taxes as middle-class families do. This proposal makes sure millionaires and billionaires share the responsibility for reducing the deficit. It would correct, for example, the fact that Warren Buffett’s secretary currently pays taxes at a higher rate than he…
If the Saints hadn’t won yesterday maybe the mood around here would be different, but they did win and it seems like everyone is just up to their usual routine of daily life. It rained today. Fall officially begins this Friday although even that seems debatable according to a recent article I read. There is a meeting come up about starting a Time Bank here in New Orleans. I could throw a small rock and…
Years ago, when I was about to turn 50 years old, I had a TCA peel, which is an acid wash that takes a few layers of your skin off and gets you back to this baby like skin. It not only takes away old dead skin, dark patches, but it also removes for a time the fine wrinkles around your mouth, nose and eyes. Like I said, for a time, as the fine wrinkles…
I was hell bent on putting fun back into the day in the life and so Friday we had fun, Saturday we had fun, today, maybe not so much fun. Tin woke with a stomach ache, I helped a friend with their social media who didn’t necessarily want to be all that social, and then I got a stomach ache. Oh well, whatyagonnado? So just to be perfectly clear, tomorrow is fun day, not Monday.…
We went to see the sneak preview of the New Orleans Afrikan Film Festival at the African Museum last night and watched Mississippi Damned, a wretching but well wrought tale of growing up poor in the South. I could add growing up black, growing up gay, growing up talented, growing up different, growing up with people who are so stuck in a pattern of life that doesn’t serve any one of them. This is not…
Where else but New Orleans could you take your toddler to a music clinic taught by Shamarr Allen and the Underdawgs on Tuesday afternoon at Sound Cafe, then on Thursdays to drumming in Fortier Park taught by Angela Bachemin, and then Saturdays to a brass band in Louis Armstrong Park with Sunpie Barnes? All for free. Children here are getting a world class education.