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Monday – Om Day

Last night, we watched Patrik, Age 1.5, a Swedish film about a gay couple who adopt what they think is a baby, but turns out to be a teenage boy. Touching. And then I picked up Whatever Passes for Love is Love by John Stoss and began again this book, which I had picked up a week ago and then a week got in the way. More on this later. Monday started at 4AM, with…

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Good news for the neighborhood

I don’t know how we will get our news when the Times Picayune goes to three days a week. Who the hell wants to read nola.com – it’s so bad. They need a dose of aquatization – the term Steve Jobs coined about how to make the computer like aquarium viewing – just pure pleasure. Nola.com is very far from a pleasurable experience, as a matter of fact it is closer to an annoying one.…

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Observations

The New Orleans Times Picayune is going to three days a week and we are supposed to get our news online. Watch me hoofing it to the computer to count the dead toll – not. New York has stopped delivering mail on Mondays. Jet Blue used to be ideal – today I flew in a plane that was not even half-assed clean, it was disgusting – the bathroom toilet had piss all over the floor…

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