Rebecca MacFitte, Sam Jasper, godspeed and let us wish you well as you return to the atoms of the aether. We thank you for the many inspirations and encouragements you left us here with. We will miss you. We will miss your brilliance, and your wit, and your unrelenting pursuit of fairness, and the voice…
Dear Doris, You were the best love. Some think there is only one kind of love, or there is only one thing to love, or one way to love, or that it doesn’t exist at all. They are wrong. There are many ways to love. Yours was the best of them all, a simple, uncomplicated,…
…when I would wake up on a Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and just so excited to surf the Internet for the first two or three hours of the day. That’s what they called it back then, “surfing.” Even on 56k modems they likened it to Cheyne Horan shredding swells on mushrooms. I…
As I’ve grown older, it became at first difficult and now impossible to save myself from abstractions. I spend a lot of my private thought searching for truths as a point of fixity to grasp what the fuck is going on and often coming up short. Because there is so much that is so hard…
The introduction to an unfinished short story… —————— Callie played the Calliope atop of the steamboat Queenie seven days a week and she was the considered by all to be the finest woman in town. In every way, to everyone. She was wealthy. Her family was old money and owned properties all over St. Anna…
No blog revival lasts. It’s always a moment’s inspiration. A failed reboot. An attempt at a reconciliation between someone and their muse to revive a relationship that perished for a proper reason. As all things do, right or wrong. Everything dies for the right reason. So I’m not going to revive The Chicory blog, which…
It’s always nice to share, especially memories.
Hello Entercom! First off, THANK YOU for keeping the greatest genre of music ever, Classic Rock, alive in New Orleans. With all the great music our city has to offer, it’s easy to forget about good ole rock ‘n’ roll and the indescrible influence of bands like Led Zep, Def Lep, The Crüe, Skynard, Van…
So here’s this: Southern US strawberry festival sparks a race row Okay so, in 2009 when Bill Hemmerling died Clancy DuBose wrote… In 2009, Bill was successfully represented at ART EXPO in New York, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and FI-ART in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. He has been honored by…
PATS program needs to stay separate for the kids it serves When I was in second grade, a man pulled me out of class with a few other students put us in a room and gave us a test that involved some simple spatial, pattern recognition and logic questions. I remember the very day because…