We went to see The Kids Are All Right last night because T wanted to see it. I was watching it again from a sort of character point of view. I initially went to see the movie by myself and thought, wow this couple is Tatjana and me – I’m the Annette Bening character and Tatjana is the character Julianne Moore plays. But later a friend said she had seen the movie and loved it…
This is a familiar refrain in New Orleans – it started raining Friday night and didn’t stop. We set up the umbrellas and plastic gazebo because we decided that rain wasn’t going to stop us from having our Release Party – I mean rain? Water? That is our metaphor, right? We put our shrimp boots on and carried tables, food, and drink out to the bayou and people came carrying more food, more drink, more…
I was strolling with the dogs early this morning getting ready for an early work call when I saw the boys from Holy Cross running around the bayou. Back to school – the Cabrini girls are all rooting for parking spaces, the Holy Cross boys are running the bayou, and still my favorite are the nuns going to and fro in their black habits. Summer is coming to an end and while I’m welcoming the…
I walked the dogs without Tin in the Ergobaby because it was already too hot for woman and beast by the time I got out there. We came across the nuns leaving morning mass in their long black habits – mind you it was at least 90 if not more with 1000% humidity. Then we passed the Hari Krishna’s in their ankle length orange robes. There was something going on at the park, lot of…
Forget about all those books like why New Orleans matter – food, music, port, culture – there is simply no way to describe walking out of a building after a rain coming down while the sun is shining and feeling like you just took a sauna. We took the dogs and Tin around the bayou this afternoon because I felt the need to bolt from the LaLa after a day in front of the computer…
Oil Spill got you down? Here are some things you can do to work through these uncertain times: 1st Procession of Krewe of Dead Pelicans 329 Julia Street Start in front of Canary Collective Gallery Sat, Jun 5, 2010 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm **** Teach-in about the BP disaster: 6:00 Thursday night at Holy Angels (that’s 3500 Saint Claude, corner of Saint Claude and Gallier, the huge old convent that’s now a retirement home…
I started my new running program this morning. On Tues and Thurs, I’ll run and T will take the dogs to the dog park for their running. On my run I ran into a lot of neighborhood folks but one was a surprise. A guy I had met pre-Katrina had decided to leave New Orleans after the storm amidst a lot of soul searching. He had thrown open the doors to the possibility of teaching…
We closed out Jazz Fest in the Blues Tent listening to B.B. King. Need I say more? Well, okay I will. When Jazz Fest starts, the police pull up a mobile unit on the bayou at the foot of Grand Route St. John, and for some reason that symbolizes the beginning of Jazz Fest. This year, I took Tin every day and it certainly changed the way I experience the Fest but all in all…
It’s that time of year again in New Orleans, in Faubourg St. John, on the bayou – JAZZ FEST! And as usual, I have my brass pass in hand and can’t wait. This will be Tin’s first Jazz Fest and I hope there are many more in his future. Tonight, the strategy – to mark the acts I want to see and to make other choices as well. Tomorrow, by this time I will have…
Yesterday the WWL newstruck pulled up as we were all sitting on the porch ending our week with Tin having peanut butter and rice crackers for the first time, and us just starting to relax. CNN had just named New Orleans as one of the ten most dangerous cities in the world and they wanted to know what we thought about it. We gave them an earful – yes New Orleans has long had the…