And miss it each night and day
I know I'm not wrong, the feeling's getting stronger
The longer I stay away
Yup, I've fallen into posting song lyrics.
Later: CNN is playing Randy Newman's "Louisana 1927" over their hurricane video montage. Fox is playing a cover of the same song over its video montage, but...
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In the high and dry French Quarter, 48-year-old Jack Jones said he would resist if authorities tried to force him out of the home where he has lived since the 1970s.
While the streets were strewn with garbage, rotting food and downed power lines, Jones kept his block pristine, sweeping daily, spraying for mosquitoes and even pouring bleach down drains to kill germs.
Jones said the sick, the elderly and people who lack supplies should be evacuated-- but not folks like him. He has 15 cases of drinking water, a generator, canned ravioli, wine, coffee and three cartons of Marlboros.
"I've got everything I need," he said. "I just want to be left alone."
This guy's my man.
It was a long time coming. Commercial real estate is the province of scumbags, I'm afraid. Lots of developers and agents with slicked-back hair, shiny new pickup trucks that have never carried anything but bad intentions, and others who want a free ride with no risk.
Going shopping for a replacement building should be interesting, if not vastly entertaining.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I've been working to bring back, "Rad" for a couple months now. I'm actually beginning to make some progress.
Drinking whiskey out of jelly jars-- does that say "creativity," "poverty," or "alcoholism?" Four law students in New Orleans eagerly...
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What's weird about Greece now is that they're taking all these ruins that have been lying about and standing them up again (still in pieces, but, well, cleaner and more upright). I can't get used to my old neighborhood anymore.
You know, despite all the fun I had at C of C, my one regret is that I somehow missed every chance I had to visit the Big Easy with my student friends.
Then today, I get a belated birthday present from my aunt. It's a book-- the unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath. So great, I have a book to read, but I have to wonder-- what...
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Hopefully she'll come around...But i'm of half a mind to just drop her. I've been alone for a lonnnnnnnng time so i'll probably keep going out with her. But this game she's playing is so stupid and childish.
I don't have her email and can't leave a voice mail as she doesn't have a phone or any means of getting in contact with her outside her Aunt and Uncle who she lives with. So...i'm just going to wiat for her to come back to her senses.
Then I go up to school, where I'm pretty sure the freshman curriculum requires a Practical Application of Eating Disorders course.
And tomorrow night, we will honor Ray Charles by drinking mint juleps (I know, it was the Clovers who originally did the song, but still) and playing every Ray Charles song on the jukebox at Molly's.
Final thought: Can anyone tell me who...
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I'm rather staggered myself.
Stupid Swedish engineering; only goes 240,000 miles.
In other news, is anyone else more than a little (for lack of a better word) impressed with all the travelling Reagan's corpse is going to do this week? I'm sure it's getting the best embalming money can buy, along with top-quality refrigeration, but man-- they're...
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