It costs $261 to get out of jail (read: not free) – after my fender bender late July, I have been trying to pay my ticket online but the number has never showed up – then out of the blue I get an almost warrant for my arrest if I don’t pay the fine – typical – so $100 fine later and a pretty short line at the Hall of Injustice and here I am,…
I read recently that Ruthie the duck woman died. When I lived in the Quarter in my early twenties I saw Ruthie on a regular basis. One time when I was walking down Burgundy Street and she was with duck on the other side, she said, “Rachel!” It freaked me out at the time. Now, it makes me smile. A friend of mine in Chicago said she got a card from my next door neighbor…
Okay, so the market is tanking yet another day, there is crime again in the neighborhood, and another day has gone by in a blur BUT the great mystery is who is carving my pumpkins? To combat this, I have gone and bought three more pumpkins to keep this little carver very busy.
My baby said the other day, “You’re like an avalanche. Slow down.” But with the same sweet lips she says she thinks I shudder from too much love when I dream of clandestine subterfuge – as if, I say, hand me it all, there is no weight I cannot bear. To Earthward Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air That…
Well the market is going to hell in a handbasket and Hurricane Oscar is headed to Puerto Rico – and NONE OF THESE are true, they are just little devils bouncing on our heads right now. Speaking of little devils – watch this clip by Jon Stewart – would anyone really vote for McCain/Palin? I saw signs up in San Francisco on people’s houses – bizarre.
Another one of my pumpkins got carved – the rate this is going, I won’t have to do anything for Halloween but show up.
Quote of the Week I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. Thomas Jefferson 1802