Age appropriate
The subject of appropriate age differences came up and T said that in Croatia there is a saying: if you lay down with children, you wake up peed on. Pretty well sums it up what we were trying to say all evening.
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Obama ate here
When Obama was in town he took the entire family to Parkway Bakery & Tavern, right down the bayou from me. I’m not sure what they ate, but here’s a pretty good idea of how it went – I was there ordering a catfish on a bun dressed and a large roast beef poboy dressed – we were going to split with the boys. While I was waiting for my order, the kitchen loudspeaker came…
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The art of being
This morning walking through City Park with Loca and Heidi on a gorgeous almost fall day, we passed all the other fellow park pedestrians who were also out later than usual because it is Sunday, because it is Labor Day weekend, and because. It was a lovely day, I had left Tin for a resleep in the crib and Tatjana for a morning nap after we had all had eggs, grits, biscuits and the last…
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Fatty and skinny
Ever hear the one that goes like this: Fatty and Skinny went to bed, fatty rolled over and skinny was dead? Well today we went to breakfast at Huevos and once again Tin ate four tamales, two poached eggs while I was struggling to keep up. Then I came home and was getting ready to hose down the back porch as we have company in this weekend and Joe was out in the back yard…
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Janus
There are two women who live across the bayou who are both 95 years old. Both of them walk every day. Both of them live alone. But that is where the similarity stops. One is active with the church and is constantly engaged in some church activity, bible class. I remember right after Katrina she told me the reason that we had been spared – those of us right on the bayou – is because…
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I don’t want to be a pirate!
Tin has been in the throes of Pirate-mania. Tata, our friend’s nanny in Zahara, gave him a pirate tee shirt and then we have been reading Pirates Don’t Change Diapers and suddenly it is nonstop pirate all the time around here. Below is Tin carrying around the now crumbled photograph of Tata who showed him how to baile flamenco – oh pa! and gave him galletas Maria to eat while we were in Spain. He…
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I am New Orleans
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…
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Yikes, I’m one of them
I’ve always been perplexed by people who take copious photographs of their cat and then want to show them. It’s so queer. And sure enough, here I find myself taking photographs of Blekica and wanting to share them. And speaking of queer, on my way home from yoga, I saw two mobile homes pull off of the I-10 exit by the Quarter, with very attractive men in front – the gays are coming, the gays…
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Ain’t no decadence like Southern Decadence
Southern Decadence kicked off today with lots of activities around the French Quarter and beyond planned culminating in a parade on Sunday. This is the time of year when the city is flooded with beautiful young men. The history of Southern Decadence goes back to 1978 and while it is more known among the young gay men, truly it is like any other festival here in New Orleans where people wear costumes, pour out into…
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If I wasn’t so happy, I’d cry
I was on my way to yoga and WWOZ’s DJ was about to play When The Saints Come Marching In and he said, “I’m gonna just sit here and keep playing music otherwise we’d all just be depressed.