After an unexpected and unwanted hibernation in Nashville, I found myself on the scales of the Tulane gym last week twenty pounds heavier than when I left for Katrina. Fortunately, just being back in my own kitchen and not eating out every day has already erased 10 of those excess pounds, but I still feel and look like a pregnant seal. I'm soooo ( Read more... )

I'm currently sitting in a pair of shorts at a small table in a coffee house on Magazine street. The radio is turned to WWOZ and the jazz floats along to the same rhythm as the warm breeze. Every person who has wandered into the shop has been a typical New Orleanian and almost all of them have been wearing t-shirts asserting their residence and ( Read more... )

I'm too disinterested to take the time to slit my wrists.

"I wish that I could hide from everyone.
Is there somewhere else to be,
Is there somewhere else to be,
Take me in,
Cause I want out,
That's all I need."

-VAST

Yesterday I stopped by the TN state office of vital records to get a copy of my birth certificate. In the office of vital records were hundreds of pamphlets promoting sexual abstinence in multiple languages ( Read more... )

THE CRUEL ( Read more... )

THE UGLY ( Read more... )

THE BAD ( Read more... )

We got a late start. My brother hadn't been out on the town for a year, so when he came to meet us at work the night before, it was hard to drag him back home. So I let them sleep a few extra hours, unaware that my brother had not accomplished any of the things he needed to get done before we could leave. Like I said, we got a late start ( Read more... )

Things have finally started to settle down ( Read more... )

Lestat's Normally Sweet Baptist Missionary Sister: "I told Dad everything I thought. I also told him he needed new doctors."

Lestat: "Yeah. Have any ideas?"

Lestat's Sister: "What's that guy's name in Michigan?"

Lestat: "Who?"

Lestat's Sister: "Jack something...."

Lestat: "Kevorkian?"

Lestat's Sister: "Yeah, him."

Lestat: "I put his number on speed ( Read more... )