The winds of change blow seldom but strongly in this sinking, swampy city, but when they blow, they blow as though they had done quite a lot of blow, that is to say fast and intense and with little warning. For two years I've spent 8-9 months of the calender in New Orleans, eating up the best, highly decadent and scrumptious parts of the city, ( Read more... )

Four in the morning is not an easy hour. There's the physical pain and that's just the start, a rot gut churn from 2 pots of coffee.  The healthy twitch in my legs is gone, only the dull pull of anxiety left. Adenosine receptors overloaded to the max. The worst moment comes at 4 AM when you look up and suddenly none of your friends are signed into ( Read more... )

The Black Friday masses killed a man in Nassau yesterday, trampling the Walmart employee to death as he tried to hold back the swell of the mob that broke through the locked store doors at 5 am. He was part of an employee human chain that formed in response to the crowd's chants of "break the doors down!" before they stormed the building. ( Read more... )

Curious about the swish swish swish swish wafting through my cracked front door, I took a peak and saw something of Old New Orleans was supposed to have lost to the crush of modern ways. A woman was dipping a broom in a bucket of soapy water and cleaning her steps, swish swish swish--all 11 of them, since her house is raised to counteract flooding ( Read more... )

"More meat!" was my first full sentence. But things change as young girls trade pigtails for Pabst, tea parties for campfires ( Read more... )

List of old and fearsome adjectives

Wrinkled

Lumpy, stale,

Fluffy, chunky,

Vomit

Suffocation
Sweat, dirt, dirty, turtleneck.
acid sweat
covered in cockroaches

I think I can blame the Scandinavians and thier ilk for most things. Let's start with Africa.
And continue on to cell phones.
And the financing of the Nazi war effort by remaining neutral in WWII and holding confuscated Jewish money in Nazi bank accounts.
Then to pointy furniture that results in rapid rabid (rabbit) deforestation of SE Asia, which not ( Read more... )

Humans in the aggregate are getting less interesting by the day.  The individuals I love are just as delightfully fascinating as ever, but I think my benevolent love for all mankind is draining into a spiral of poo.

Maybe it's the reintroduction of meat into my diet, but I've lost that blind belief that what I do will make big differences, if not on ( Read more... )

I have some little cards and I have a little initiative.  I wondered if there are people out there who want to get a thing in the mail.  I'd consider it a favor if you send me your address so I can send you a something.

Twenty odd weeks in New Orleans, off and on, and it's beautiful, rediculously un-self concious and I love it.

There's no ( Read more... )

I used to have a Live Journal account, but I haven't touched the thing in 18 weeks and as a result I've been completely out of contact with half the folks I love the very most.

I'm going down to New Orleans on an evening plane this coming Thursday, leaves me four days or so up here.

I'm really, really sorry I haven't called.