AfterLife
Well, it's March here in New Orleans, and I expect elsewhere too, it is March.
There are still dead bodies being found here, ten or so in the last month, decomposed, in attics, out behind sheds, in debris piles, so in answer to how are things going here, I'm starting with that. There are still dead bodies being found here.
That's not in anyway keeping you from eating at Emeril's or Galatoires or Antoines or Bayonna or Dick and Jenny's or Le Crepe Nanou or anywhere you like to eat. MacDonald's is finally open on St. Charles.
I stopped for groceries at Terranova's on Esplanade after work today because I've been forgetting to eat and then when it gets late and I get hungry I get really depressed if I go out looking for food in this part of town. There is no food at night in this part of town. For the quick fix I used to hit one of two MacDonald's or a Rally's or a Church's Chicken or a Popeyes or the Taco Bell/Pizza Hut or if I were punishing myself, the Burger King. Shut shut shut, all of them, not even gutted, not even an inkling that they are coming back. But they need to because people are coming back, a whole bunch in the last month.
There is here now a semblance of normalcy in a town that was never normal, so it's all about comparisons and it just gets tiring after awhile trying to figure out what's good and what's bad about what's happening here.
Like I should complain. A Mr. George Miller, master plumber, came and put in a new water heater for me yesterday and I took my first hot shower on Rocheblave, last night. It felt good.
The 85 year old couple around the corner still don't have electricity. That the city has accomplished as much as it has and has come as far as it has is really, on one level, amazing. All FEMA fuckups, Corps of Engineer fuckups, Insurance company fuckups, Government fuckups, and just all fuckups in general aside, this city has really come a long way in 6 months. But somebody, please, get the Smith's their electricity turned on, or if they need work done on the wiring, somebody step up and help the Smith's, all the Smith's in the city, first.
I got some french bread pizza sitting out un-refrigerated. Guess I better pop it in the oven, take a hot shower, finishing watching that Japanese flick, Afterlife.
I guess before I do that I'll drive down Canal, pick up a CityofNewOrleans wifi signal, post this while stopped at a red light, and in the unlikely event I see a parking space, I guess I could check my email too.
Your post put the idea in my head to take pictures of some of these resturants. The Rally's is truly disgusting. But the Burger King has been cleaned and gutted, at least. I posted them to Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/editor/archives/date-taken/2006/03/14/
here is a link for ed b's flickr post
You take great pictures B, of whatever you aim your cameras at.
so did you like the movie? i still have yet to see it again, i am a bit lazy with this netflix dealio which makes it not that worthwhile i guess. at the end of the day when ryley basically passes out from sheer exhaustion or else has done every single not-allowed-thing with the cat and the furniture and food and toys and anything lying on a table within his reaches and decides to call it quits till tomorrow, i don't have the energy to put into a full length movie.
btw, his favorite book for some time now is what he refers to as 'dogs go, dogs go.' thanks.
I told you Go Dog Go is the best book ever written. Yeah, I finished watching Afterlife, great flick.
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Well, it's March here in New Orleans, and I expect elsewhere too, it is March.
There are still dead bodies being found here, ten or so in the last month, decomposed, in attics, out behind sheds, in debris piles, so in answer to how are things going here, I'm starting with that. There are still dead bodies being found here.
That's not in anyway keeping you from eating at Emeril's or Galatoires or Antoines or Bayonna or Dick and Jenny's or Le Crepe Nanou or anywhere you like to eat. MacDonald's is finally open on St. Charles.
I stopped for groceries at Terranova's on Esplanade after work today because I've been forgetting to eat and then when it gets late and I get hungry I get really depressed if I go out looking for food in this part of town. There is no food at night in this part of town. For the quick fix I used to hit one of two MacDonald's or a Rally's or a Church's Chicken or a Popeyes or the Taco Bell/Pizza Hut or if I were punishing myself, the Burger King. Shut shut shut, all of them, not even gutted, not even an inkling that they are coming back. But they need to because people are coming back, a whole bunch in the last month.
There is here now a semblance of normalcy in a town that was never normal, so it's all about comparisons and it just gets tiring after awhile trying to figure out what's good and what's bad about what's happening here.
Like I should complain. A Mr. George Miller, master plumber, came and put in a new water heater for me yesterday and I took my first hot shower on Rocheblave, last night. It felt good.
The 85 year old couple around the corner still don't have electricity. That the city has accomplished as much as it has and has come as far as it has is really, on one level, amazing. All FEMA fuckups, Corps of Engineer fuckups, Insurance company fuckups, Government fuckups, and just all fuckups in general aside, this city has really come a long way in 6 months. But somebody, please, get the Smith's their electricity turned on, or if they need work done on the wiring, somebody step up and help the Smith's, all the Smith's in the city, first.
I got some french bread pizza sitting out un-refrigerated. Guess I better pop it in the oven, take a hot shower, finishing watching that Japanese flick, Afterlife.
I guess before I do that I'll drive down Canal, pick up a CityofNewOrleans wifi signal, post this while stopped at a red light, and in the unlikely event I see a parking space, I guess I could check my email too.
- jimlouis 3-10-2006 3:24 am
Your post put the idea in my head to take pictures of some of these resturants. The Rally's is truly disgusting. But the Burger King has been cleaned and gutted, at least. I posted them to Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/editor/archives/date-taken/2006/03/14/
- Editor B (guest) 3-15-2006 11:47 pm [add a comment]
here is a link for ed b's flickr post
- bill 3-15-2006 11:52 pm [add a comment]
You take great pictures B, of whatever you aim your cameras at.
- jimlouis 3-17-2006 2:58 pm [add a comment]
so did you like the movie? i still have yet to see it again, i am a bit lazy with this netflix dealio which makes it not that worthwhile i guess. at the end of the day when ryley basically passes out from sheer exhaustion or else has done every single not-allowed-thing with the cat and the furniture and food and toys and anything lying on a table within his reaches and decides to call it quits till tomorrow, i don't have the energy to put into a full length movie.
btw, his favorite book for some time now is what he refers to as 'dogs go, dogs go.' thanks.
- linda 3-18-2006 4:52 am [add a comment]
I told you Go Dog Go is the best book ever written. Yeah, I finished watching Afterlife, great flick.
- jimlouis 3-20-2006 4:29 am [add a comment]
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- Lesley Stones (guest) 3-10-2021 2:42 pm [ comments]
Thanks Lesley
- Skinny 3-10-2021 7:52 pm [ comments]
This is a book unpublished
- bill 3-10-2021 7:56 pm [ comments]
4 sure!!
- Skinny 3-10-2021 11:01 pm [ comments]