they tell you to always save the best for last … got up at 5 am this morning to drive down to nola for the krewe of saint anne parade that starts at 8 am in the marigny. picked up chicago and will burke and hit the highway before the sun came up. we were [...]
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saturday morning came early after friday night. the first thing you learn about mardi gras is everything is up and running at the ass crack. you drink yourself silly and then find yourself up bright and early swearing that you won’t start drinking yourself silly again. but you get caught up in it. after southdowns [...]
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feet wetting. friday night was my first mardi gras experience. the neighborhood i live in has its own warm up parade the night before the big baton rouge spanish town parade. the previous two nights at teddy’s had taken their toll to some extent, and i was already feeling pretty green before the weekend even [...]
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when the tear away pants come off i damn near shit.
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first off … there’s a great interactive article on neko case in today’s online nytimes. fucking brilliant piece. they’ve embedded audio files into a slideshow presentation that chronicles her career. lots of stuff i’ve never heard. this follows a really cool article they did on m. ward yesterday. fuck pitchfork … it’s evidently all about [...]
the show. the road. flatbed honeymoon. lake charles. through swamps and rice fields. through lafayette, dense and confused. through dreamsicle sunsets, black birds, bottlenecks. through dead baby j and backwards wooden bridges, unfound. through great plastic pigs and hound piss ornaments on the move. through breaux bridge inflections and no jew hebert. through pop tarts [...]
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teddy’s was served with extra love last night. heavenly wine and roses seems to whisper to her when she smiles … sweet, sweet jane! however, i woke up punctured. still got a bit of this cold thing. coughing, congested, touch of the brown bottle flu in the mix to boot. i layed in bed and [...]
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friday morning i woke up with a fever. had to cancel class for the first time in my teaching career. slept until noon. the older i get, the softer i get when i’m sick. squishy, deflated, blue. chock full ‘o pity. no spine sick guy. curl up in the fetal position and wait impatiently for [...]
