Sometime in the middle of the night, someone stole Roy’s table and chairs, painted over our hand painted Love the Bayou signs with KILL COPS and spray painted Peggy Bishop’s pottery that graces the ugly street signs. The mayor of the neighborhood saw the table floating in the bayou and came over and Tatjana and he pulled it out. Meanwhile, Roy was at Home Depot buying our annual harvest decorations for the bayou and lamenting…
“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” Jagland said.
Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize The U.S. president Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Nobel Foundation said in Sweden on Friday.
I left my truck in the parking lot at the airport and someone removed my Obama bumpersticker. Idiot.
We’ve experienced the elements today – walking out onto the Embarcadero this morning in the fog, arriving in Denver for the snow, and landing in New Orleans for that old familiar heat and humidity.
Sitting in the Denver airport with a long layover and a grand desire to be home. It’s 40 degrees here and 92 in New Orleans. Where would you rather be? Meanwhile, my old high school pal who contacted me on Facebook sends me good cheer from Atlanta. She writes: I don’t know if you remember this joke you told me in high school but it went something like this…. ONE DAY I WAS FEELING DOWN…
I read a study that came to the conclusion that the creative environment in a business tilts when there are more than 10 employees. That a business with more than 10 employees needs processes and policies – the type of bureaucratic layering that zaps the creativity of most human beings. Last night, we walked down to Boulevard to get a bite to eat at the bar. I told T that Boulevard consistently is good and…
I became a member of MySpace because that is where my nieces and nephews were and then everything migrated to Facebook and I went there. But I became increasingly annoyed at having to constantly log on to Facebook to answer emails that people sent me to my Facebook account that would come to my email account. I kept thinking WASTE OF FUCKING TIME. And then I just decided to quit railing against it because people…
My mother in law sent me a poem from a family friend – Luis Muñoz – the friend whose flat we were able to crash at in Madrid on our way to Lisbon – unfortunately I didn’t get to meet the esteemed poet, but I did get to rummage through his vast library as he was down South visiting family. EL PRECIO DE LOS DIAS Descubre, al mismo tiempo, los espejos nublados de la tarde…
I stood in line behind a tall, nice looking young boy who was awfully chatty. We were both flying to San Francisco and he said he had his suit in his bag and would not check it because it was so important that he have it tomorrow for his interview. He’s in his second round of interviews at Presidio Dental College. He was such a sweet, cute boy and chatty enough to put all of…