Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple, he announced this yesterday to the world, and the world responded. One of the greatest innovators of our time, a leader unparalleled, a man who did his own thing and we, the people, were the beneficiaries of his vision. Don’t yet underestimate what his technological creations did to open up the world to a global dialogue that is yet to be digested and understood. I hung…
A guy I know used to write all his letters in verse, and he was an attorney. It was pretty interesting. And another friend decided to write a haiku a day for one year, also interesting. Today, a friend asked how my summer had been as she’s been gone and we were missing each other – I summed it up for her in verse/haiku: Summer wore me out Before vacation began Fall begins with hope
I just wrote Tarantino an email because he is filming a movie – a Southern spaghetti western – here in New Orleans called Django Unchained. I told him he needed to use the music and or the musician – Evan Christopher – in this movie as his band when he is traveling is Creole Django. And that would just be too cool for school.
Someone just asked me how New Orleans is and I sent them this video. On any given day, a brass band erupts, a guy gets off his bike to dance, a Lucky Dog truck strolls by and life happens.
A realization came to me in the groggy moments of waking, I am exactly where I need to be. August 24, 2011 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Even though your time is completely your own right now, there is no time to waste. Just because you don’t feel pressure from outside forces does not mean that the speed at which you travel effects only you. Other folks are depending on you to put your best foot forward and fight…
My aunt told me she is happy my uncle has retired because he is around more. I told her she is the only woman who would say such a thing. Then she gave me an example of the other day when she was in the utility room and saw the complete outline of a snake from where one had just shed its skin. She called him, he was there. I was speaking to a very…
I’ve just listened to All Around the Mulberry Bush about 85 times. And I didn’t crack. Which tells me that I can handle whatever is going to come my way.
The guy who has been working on my house had a 200 lb slab of wood fall on him and now he is out of commission. As he sat at the dining room table petting Loca – I told him about Loca’s backstory. How she came to me when Arlene was very old and she loved Arlene but she thought one day Arlene would die and she would be top dog. That was how she…
What would you do if you were me and you were on a mission to change the parts of you that are learned behavior and learn the parts of you that are fundamental to who you are, to who our species is, to who you should be. This morning walking through City Park, a thousand thoughts vied for attention in my mind that ran the gamut: Ugly and rebellious, wtf? Need to figure out a…
I was looking up Cheb i Sabbah since I’m going to be in San Francisco and he is an Algerian DJ who spins records in the Mission District. We saw him a few years ago, and had an awesome time at Bollyhood, the club he had become a regular at on Thursday nights. I first learned of him when Tatjana brought me a CD back from Istanbul. Sadly, in searching for him, I came across…