buy isotretinoin from india On Tuesday I got up at six-thirty, hopped in the shower, and met my Corps engineer friend right outside my house. We rode our bikes downtown. Getting around was difficult. We attempted to take Claiborne Avenue, a major street running almost directly downtown from Carrollton, but its shoulder was filled with sand, gravel, and broken […]
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Fat Tuesday.
26-Feb-09Lundi Gras.
26-Feb-09Boucherville After a weekend where everyone is off from work and partying, Lundi Gras is a lull. Most businesses are open, and there is opportunity to get practical things done. Johnny Angel and myself went to do laundry, and found the laundromat quite busy – the busiest I’ve ever seen the place, all the driers being […]
Mardi Gras Out of Context – 2.
26-Feb-09The Sunday Before Mardi Gras.
26-Feb-09Sunday morning saw me biking to a lovely house on Henry Clay Avenue in one of the nicest neighborhoods in the city. It was the house of the parents of a Princeton friend (the same from the previous night at the Columns). The Krewe of Thoth, scheduled to start sometime between 11 and 12, lined […]
The Krewe of Endymion.
26-Feb-09By Samedi Gras I was exhausted by new experiences, so I puttered around the house a bit, worked in the garden, and “made groceries.” In the supermarket I saw one of the downsides of Mardi Gras – people running around buying things, wanting to make sure they got to the parades on time or had […]
Ashes to Ashes.
25-Feb-09The exuviae of Mardi Gras. And Lent begins.
From Krewe D’Etat.
23-Feb-09The joys of living in New Orleans. If you have a mortgage, you need flood insurance – which in certain areas is like another mortgage. Plus high taxes. And no jobs either. And the famous water and sewer board, where nothing gets done. New Orleans water is famously filled with all of middle-America’s effluent. Certain […]
Letting the Days Go By.
23-Feb-09At 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-09I 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 […]
New Orleans Levee.
21-Feb-09I’ve already mentioned the satirical paper The New Orleans Levee. But the more you contemplate these things, the funnier they appear to be. The paper, an Onion-style sendup of New Orleans, has the motto “We Don’t Hold Anything Back.” And the website is N.O. Levee, which comes out to www.nolevee.com.