So it looks like gasoline is shaping up to be a big campaign issue. Bush has attacked Kerry for supporting a 50-cent gas tax years…
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So it looks like gasoline is shaping up to be a big campaign issue. Bush has attacked Kerry for supporting a 50-cent gas tax years…
There’s been a coating of green dust over New Orleans for the last few weeks. It’s the annual falling of the oak pollen, and it’s…
So last night around 9 p.m. I mixed myself a drink and went downstairs, thinking that I would veg out watching some television. Xy was…
I’m suffering from radio withdrawal because it’s pledge week on both the local NPR affiliate (WWNO). Normally I would just switch over to Tulane University’s…
I’m fascinated by cycles, including the cycle of seasons. Back when I lived in Bloomington, Indiana I watched each spring for the emergence of new…
Y’all know that dentists number human teeth for ease of reference, right? #32 is the last tooth, the one in your lower right, if you…
It’s Rachel taking a smoke break in front of her house in Baltimore. Xy is wearing a scarf Rachel knitted for her. But who took…
So once again I take pen in hand, motivated by the vague notion that my life is slipping away, unexamined, unrecorded. Does writing, or the…
I think I remember M. Leonard questioning my wisdom at drinking an Irish Car Bomb on an empty stomach. But my stomach wasn’t entirely empty.…
They say that when you get within a hundred miles you begin to feel a little drunk on just the idea of New Orleans… That…
I just had the most bizarre conversation with our temp secretary. She actually called me a “commie” becuz I posted some antiwar posters from protestposters.org.…
Today, I am bleeding from both ends. Every time I brush my teeth, there’s blood. (I have sensitive gums. It’s a side effect from my…
So it’s Christmas Eve, and I’m eating lunch at Coop’s Place in the Quarter with my in-laws. The waiter there is a perpetual stoner. For…
A homeless man has taken up residence on campus, just inside the fence that borders the on-ramp to I-10.
Well, the damn deal fell thru. The house I said we were buying? We’re not. Last week we had the place inspected, and we were…
We’re buying this house!
This just happened outside my office window about five minutes ago.
I drafted a number of e-mails back in late September that I never sent. Most of them were intended for my extended family, as we…
Death. You know, it seems absurd, but actually the death of our cat Bilal is the closest that death has touched my life — ever.…
Mardi Gras has come and gone. It was fun, but there were also some tragedies. Three, in fact. Our monitor died. When you turn it…