I knew we’d come in handy somewhere.

Looks like I spoke too soon. I will have a job at least for the next couple of weeks (starting Tuesday) after all. Yay work (and at a show I like to boot)! Boo paying exorbitant gas prices to get to and from and around at work.

I haven’t really said much about the hurricane so far, mostly because I tend to avoid serious topics here. But I have to admit, I’ve been mesmerized by the coverage of the destruction. There’s very little to say that hasn’t already been said. It’s a phenomenally sad situation, and it just feels completely unreal. This ...

I’m finishing up my two weeks of temping Friday, and with nothing solid on the horizon, I’d normally be quite worried about not having anything lined up for the next couple of weeks. This, however, makes me think it might be a good time to have a couple weeks where I don’t have to drive ...

Especially if you’re New Orleans Magazine, and have published an article in your August issue about how to throw the best hurricane party. Choice unfortunate sections: In the unfortunate event that The Big One does comes our way, every hurricane party fits the potential for “the last thing you do before you die” category. With ...

I love coming home to extremely loud road work being done directly outside my window at 9pm. And continuing until 10. And probably until 11. As nice as it will be to have pressure sensors to make the light timing at my corner make sense, they really could have done this on the weekend. If ...

Apparently, in addition to cancer, diabetes, alcoholism, insanity and heart disease, Human Cannonballism can run in families. The stunt that sparked that story was apparently part of something bigger: Javier Téllez told NBC 7/39 that his goal with One Flew Over the Void is to create a powerful political message about open borders. During the ...

I’m absolutely exhausted and I have to get up and work tomorrow morning, and I can’t sleep. An uncertain job situation (which I will not go into here, mostly because it would take pages to explain) is the main cause of it, though the angst from that seems to be bleeding into other parts of ...

When I finished up my last job, they were trying to get rid of as much of the craft service stuff as they possibly could, so I took home a box full of snacks. One of the things in the box was little one ounce snack packages of mini-marshmallows, with the most ridiculous health claim ...

I can’t remember how I got here link-jumping, but somehow I ended up hearing about Jimmy Kimmel’s feature “This Week in Unnecessary Censorship.” The idea is that you can make even the most innocent thing sound really, really dirty if you bleep it so that the viewer allows their imagination to run wild. Here is ...