Today, after thinking it over for a year or so, I bought a Big Green Egg, medium size.
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Today, after thinking it over for a year or so, I bought a Big Green Egg, medium size.
Xy and I are celebrating our steel anniversary. Twelve [sic] years ago today, we got married. In the mix this morning: “Anniversary” by Tony! Toni!…
The word atheist provokes a strong and negative reaction amongst many of my fellow human beings, so I thought perhaps I should explain why I…
The autumnal equinox approaches. It is only a couple hours away. I’ve sometimes had arguments with people who think the seasons always begin on the…
The Times-Picayune is calling Saturday’s election the “biggest election fiasco in modern Louisiana history.” This is not buried on the op-ed section. It’s on the…
Election results are in: Should we amend the state constitution to forbid gay marriage? Most Louisiana voters said yes, surprise, surprise. What a fucking stupid…
The Green Party had a media training workshop; since it was at Xavier I had to be there for the duration. Attendance was not so…
I’m so excited I could just about piss in my pants. Today I got my Special Edition Double-Disc DVD Set of Slacker, which comes in…
Xy and I went to an art extravafreakoutganza at the Big Top Gallery, something called Meow Mix that Heather Weathers put together. Everything had a…
There was some confusion as to whether Xavier was open today or not, so around 8 a.m. I called campus info and learned that campus…
“Hurricane editions” of the Times-Picayune for Wednesday and Thursday have appeared on my porch. THRONGS FLEE IVAN, declares one. IVAN ROARS INLAND, says the other.…
I went for a jog around the bayou this morning. It’s a very pleasant day. Kind of breezy, which is nice. There’s a little debris…
I took a bike ride. The I-10 was just about empty. At Xavier they were putting some newspaper dispensers on the back of a truck.…
We’re now outside the projected cone of possibility. That’s nice, but it hardly means we’re safe. Hundreds of thousands of wiser people have left, but…
The National Hurricane Center’s projections continue to predict Ivan will take a turn to the north. (Per M. Whybark’s request, I’ve marked the location of…
We’re under a hurricane storm warning now. Xy and I took a walk around the neighborhood, watched people boarding up their windows, stopped in for…
Ivan cometh. New Orleans (and much of the Gulf Coast) is under a hurricane watch. The university is closed today and tomorrow. So is NOPS.…
The projections for Ivan have been drifting westward, and now New Orleans is in the cone of possibility. And it is a category five hurricane.…
I’m about ready to give up on Jean-Fuck Godard. I tried watching Alphaville a few years ago, but found it so excruciatingly boring that I…
Some of my friends seem to be living in a dream world. They hate Bush and are banking on a Bush defeat in November. Some…