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Letting the Days Go By.

23-Feb-09

http://sunsationalhomeimprovement.com/diy-summer-gardening/ At the Krewe D’Etat parade I spoke with an English emigre who had come to Tulane as a graduate student and ended up moving to New Orleans.  “I basically begged and pleaded and did anything I could to make sure I could stay here, and here I am.  Twenty years later.”  He was a “sculptor […]

The Mystic Krewe of Hermes.

23-Feb-09

http://antihousewife.com/category/make-freeze I was astonished on Friday night by the floats of the “Mystic Krewe of Hermes,” a krewe which prides itself on its traditional, secret, and indeed hermetic ways.  The parade was dubbed “The Retinue of Dionysus,” but I expected mythology from the parade about as much as I would expect a presentation on the Homeric […]