I mentioned last June that I was going to be a grand uncle. About five months ago, my niece gave birth to a bouncing baby…
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I mentioned last June that I was going to be a grand uncle. About five months ago, my niece gave birth to a bouncing baby…
Xy’s in the ninth month of her pregnancy now. She’s tired of carrying the extra weight and all the other many attendant discomforts. Pregnancy is…
I salute the people of Louisiana who made it to the polls Saturday. Obama beat Clinton by a big margin; Huckabee beat McCain. Locally, a…
Our friends DJ and Daisy and Anna and Lili came over, and we spent the day moving furniture from room to room. My office has…
Wow. Check out the cover of the today’s Inside Out, the Times-Picayune’s weekly home and garden supplement. There’s a picture of Kilowatt Rising rocking our house party, and sure enough there’s Michael Homan (with unbroken clavicle) continuing his sinister project of confusing himself with me. Open it up and we’re in the center spread with pictures and a timeline of our whole renovation. This is the final story in the series, ostensibly, #28 by my count. This can’t be reproduced online easily, but head over to nola.com to for a reasonable approximation with some cool pictures. I’ll include the text here for future reference just because you never know how long nola.com plans to keep their content online.
And of course I must note that although Stephanie gives my wife credit, that’s actually my jambalaya.
Title: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon Author: Julie Phillips Published: 2006 If you go to the American Museum of Natural…
I’m not sure who said what, but in this CityBusiness article I seem to have merged with Michael Homan.
Today’s the Chinese New Year. I’m a bit disturbed that our child will be born in the Year of the Rat, because I don’t particularly…
What the hell? I thought I was Everson à Orleans.
Today is Mardi Gras, the most wonderful day of the year. Ideally I’d be getting up at the crack of dawn, donning a wild costume,…
Now about that low-grade sore throat thing I mentioned. It lasted five days at least, and I’ve still got a lingering dryness, but it never…
Well, we did it. For a while I didn’t think we would be able to pull it off. First there was my sprained ankle. Then…
One morning about a month ago, Xy couldn’t get our car started, and she had to catch a ride with a co-worker. I was all…
Two and a half years after I took it, my picture of tiny orange fungi has finally been identified. It is Dacryopinax spathularia, also known…
It seems that in a few hours John Edwards will drop out of the Democratic primary. He’ll make the announcement right here in New Orleans,…
Doesn’t it seem ridiculous that our collective mood should rise and fall based on what this guy says in his speech? Tonight, the armies of…
Sawing into the baby in this king cake made me feel kind of like Solomon Gone Mad. Since the baby isn’t actually contained in my…
This story in the paper made me feel ever-so-slightly vindicated about our decision to renovate. A new study of home prices around the New Orleans…
Mom reminded me that today marks 30 years since the Great Blizzard of 1978. I’d just turned 11. I don’t remember much of it, except…
I overheard Xy talking on the phone, commiserating with a co-worker about a frustrating staff meeting: I felt like giving birth right there and telling…