Here’s a note I sent to my neighborhood discussion group. Neighbors, After much soul-searching I have decided that I will not be seeking another term…
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Here’s a note I sent to my neighborhood discussion group. Neighbors, After much soul-searching I have decided that I will not be seeking another term…
My neighbor Dawn posted some invective on New Orleans recovery czar Ed Blakely that caught my attention.
Title: Spin Author: Robert Charles Wilson Published: 2005 Imagine you’re a kid looking up at the night sky and all of a sudden the stars…
Ethan Brown gives me and this blog mention in the Guardian.
Through nefarious means I have acquired two documents from last year which clearly show that some vendors decided not to bid on the garbage contract…
For most of the year a rumor has circulated in our neighborhood regarding the Lindy Boggs Medical Center. That’s the hospital at Jeff Davis and…
Dear B, My name is Adam and I have been recently tasked with interviewing a media figure for a journalism class. Since I was unable…
Title: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler Author: E. L. Konigsburg Published: 1967 This book was published the year I was born.…
We’ve had a sheet of plastic at the top of our stairwell for two years. It provided a physical and psychological barrier to the lower…
After joking about how my brain was melted from the varnish fumes Saturday night, I started to feel like maybe it was no joke. I…
The fumes from varnish are even more intoxicating than those from stain. Or maybe it’s the cumulative effect. Anyway, my brain may be melted, but…
After the culinary fiasco of 2004, I approached this year’s Thanksgiving with some trepidation. My confidence was not bolstered when Xy finally read the creme…
I’ve gotten the staining done. It took four days of solid work, plus a half-day of touch up this morning, not to mention a day…
Old Roy came over to borrow a shovel today. He owns the house across the street, which he’s still repairing from flood damage lo these…
I’ve been off the caffeine for over a month now. I wanted to see if this would help with my intermittent insomnia. So far it…
I’m taking some vacation days. Combined with the Thanksgiving holiday, it’s a whole week off work. That gives me time to do this: I’m staining…
I thought painting trim was a pain, but staining trim in place is a royal bitch.
Thanks to my friend Carol, I got a sweet gig tonight: vote reporting! I never knew this before, but after the polls close they post…
Turn to page 24 of today’s Inside Out home and garden section of the Times-Picayune, and you’ll see a devilishly handsome fellow in an orange tee-shirt. I look so much better in this picture than in the last one they published, but both were taken by the same photographer, Kathy Anderson.
I don’t have a digital version of the picture, but to make up for it I’ve inserted a picture of the new marble counter which was installed one week ago today.
As for the story by Stephanie Bruno, it’s the 26th installment in a series that I hope will not run to 30. Here it is: