OK, so here’s a mix of my favorite music that came out in 2008. Seventeen tracks — an hour’s worth of audio for your listening…
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OK, so here’s a mix of my favorite music that came out in 2008. Seventeen tracks — an hour’s worth of audio for your listening…
Forty tracks to rock her fortieth birthday (which is today): (Starts off mellow and ramps up. Contains plenty of my favorite songs by Xy’s favorite…
We went to the Celebration in the Oaks last night, the three of us as a family unit. There’s something about lights in the darkness…
Playing the hand that was dealt me.
My co-worker Jim has said there’s been many a warm Xmas Day in New Orleans throughout his life, Xmases where he finds he’s quite comfortable…
Good Yule y’all! …from Persephone, Sebastian and Santa. And from Xy and me as well.
One of the key tensions in my relationship with Xy has to do with television. To put it bluntly, she’s for it and I’m against…
You started crawling in earnest right after you made nine months. Now it’s hard to remember when you weren’t mobile. Of course you’ve been getting…
Nightcap number three.
It took me a while to get around to scanning this photo/art from the girl’s daycare. Better late than never, yes?
So we got a new range to replace our ancient fire hazard. A few gotchas along the way. The old stove was 36″ wide. Most…
There’s nothing I want to do on New Year’s Eve except run around the Christmas-tree bonfire on Orleans Avenue. New Year’s Eve is usually a…
My sleep is interrupted by the peal of a semiautomatic weapon being discharged. Three spurts. Close by. I’m too groggy to check the time but it feels like midnight or two in the morning. Did someone just arrange another funeral? Did someone’s son (or daughter) meet their untimely end? But there’s only silence afterward, no shouts, no sirens. Maybe someone was just firing into the air for the hell of it. I drift back to sleep, uneasy, but too tired to care.
Title: Nova Author: Samuel R. Delany Published: 1968 Nova is a seminal work by one of my favorite authors. It’s a relatively short novel, written…
As of this moment, a bit of doggerel I wrote last year is the number one search result in Google for “christmas eve poem.” (Update:…
Against my better judgment, I’ve set up a new site for the podcast known as J&B’s Nightcap. It’s at nightcap.rox and the second installment is…
I upgraded this blog (and a few others) to WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” today; it’s a great package, but the built-in upgrade installation feature is simply…
Here’s something I’ve never seen before: It’s snowing in New Orleans. Update: So early this morning as I was taking the girl to school, I…
Here’s a number of Mid-City things on my mind lately: Looks like they’re working to renovate the bar at the corner of Bienville and Rendon.…
I really don’t mind a long convalescence. It’s the initial descent that I hate. Anyway, I’m on the upswing now. Still a little unsteady but…