This one's for my Hammond landlord Kenny Dean. I lived for a year in a building he owned behind the O'Reilly's parts store. About a week before I moved out, the septic tank servicing half the building exploded. It sent raw sewage UP pipes and UP drains in six apartments. In mine, a pipe leaked so that the sewage built up and built up in the ( Read more... )

These were taken back in March of 05. They start here and nearly end up in the litterpan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9_FGX9qqYY

Great article by Kevin Baker on the history of something the American Right Wing literally cannot take power without, the "stab in the back" myth.

Here he is rejecting Lebanon's call for a cease fire. What else is there to say? This blood-soaked bunch of killers and thieves have adopted Sean Hannity's Middle East policy: let them go ahead and go to war and we'll see what happens after, if anybody is left.

Roger Ebert is sick today with complications from a cancer operation. If there's a God, She needs to bless and save this man. He's taught me more about movies than any other critic, and I've usually found his recommendations to be spot-on.

Here he is in a hilarious clip with the late Gene Siskel, trying to get through a series of promos.

Rush Limbaugh detained for drug possession in the Dominican Republic.I rather enjoy this guy's humiliation, but I'm not the least bit zealous about the damn drug war. But the problem is this fat sleaze has probably done more than anybody (before he got popped) to get Republicans in office who have kept the drug war going ( Read more... )

You really have to admire myspace. It makes it possible to humiliate morons in Congress "like Wonkette does here"How do we get myspace girls gone wild pix of Democratic daughters!?! That's what I want to know. They can't all be sandal-wearing Lisa Loeb clones hanging out at the Whole Foods cafe and planning marches, can they? The daughters of ( Read more... )

The larger cat is Mayor Nagin, who fell out of a parked car outside my apartment back in September just after Hurricane Rita had finished with us. The Cowcat is an older cat I befriended when I was living in an old apartment building near Catholic High in Baton Rouge ( Read more... )

I'm going to have to close the door to the three cats who've made a habit of packing themselves into bed with me. It's been killing my back to have such limited range of motion while sleeping. So two 20 pounders and a 12 pounder are going to have to find another place to snore tonight. I'm tired of waking up feeling pain like Dick Cheney ( Read more... )

I come out of the Office Depot, having spent a good half-hour in there. It's two p.m. and we're already at 96. No telling how hot it was in the parking lot. When I get to my car to deposit what I'd bought (some book shelf brackets), I see that some idiot in a jalopy has parked in the space in front of my car, with said jalopy literally jammed ( Read more... )