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I'm so not about to make any proclamations that I'm blogging again.However, the last few weeks have been odd.  I've been finding many many old friends from the LSU days through Facebook.   It's a bit exciting.If I'm sure of one thing, it's that I had some amazing friends over the years and they've all grown into pretty cool adults.It's pretty crazy to skip over 15 or 20 years of a person's life

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Dear San Francisco (and surrounding areas),I love you dearly.  I've been so many times and had such an amazing time each time I've visited.  I truly believe you're a king among cities.   The shopping (one of my great loves), the people, the views, the culture, the food....   all beautiful in their own ways.I've been to several of your great restaurants and I'm so looking forward some day to

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So, we are well fortified for the next few days... lots of canned tuna and such, wine, batteries, flashlights, candles, bottled water, propane, etc etc.'We're bunkering down with me, my partner Don and his mother.  There are also two dogs and two cats.   I refer to the cat that belongs to Don's mother as 'the evil orange beast.'  It's pissed off and prowling the house making grouchy hissing

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Shock of all shocks.... I think I'm going to blog over the next few days.With Gustav bearing down on us, life may be interesting enough to share...   we'll see...

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Over the holidays, Don and I made a trip to the Fire and Water Festival in Arnauldville, LA, because we found out that an old college friend of mine was going to be there. And old college friend, Jill Hackney, who is an amazing artist. She paints wonderful pictures that are abstract, yet not abstract at all of fruit. We had bought two of her small paintings last Christmas and we had agreed

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Saint Etienne Xmas Songs!21st Century ChristmasThrough the Winter

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I guess it's past time to post another song.We're back in the 80s again.There's one song that I totally relate to my whole coming out process. Obviously, I came out (mostly) in the 80s. When I went away to college at LSU, I was urged to become active in the Baptist Student Union. So, I did.The first year or so of college was taken up by activities with the people I met there. One of the

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So... i shall blog about music.I've been searching for a song online for months and finally found it a couple of days ago. It's a remix of The Unacceptable Face of Freedom by Test Dept. It came out around 1986 and it was a song that I would burn up the dance floor to on those rare occassions that I heard it played at Xanthus, the Baton Rouge bar my friends and I lived in every night of the

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So... I know I never post anymore... but... I've had a really busy relatively stressful last couple of months. And I haven't really been able to talk about what has been consuming most of my life of late.But, I can talk about it now.So... as of this week, I'm the Store Manager of the Large and Viewed as Evil by Many Corporate Bookstore that I work at... I'm still a little stunned by this turn of

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So, this morning, for some reason, I decided to sort through iTunes and make myself a playlist of a lot of my favorite old 80s synthpop, freestyle and um... 80s club tracks. One huge hole in my tracks was the lack of the singles by Secession. On a whim, I check out Oink and, sweet jesus, someone uploaded a torrent yesterday of the complete singles discography of them!No other band defines my

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We're home... we're tired... I'll blog about our trip tomorrow... but... there is one thing you must know...This is the best ice cream EVER...

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So... dinner at Gary Danko...Overall, I thought it was a fantastic dining experience. The service was impeccable, although there was some sort of weird tension throughout the meal between the waiter and two of my friends that dined with us.I had the five course dinner. I started with Glazed Oysters with Osetra Caviar, Zucchini Pearls and Lettuce Cream. It was a perfectly lovely start to the

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Not a lot of time right now... but SF is great. Blogger was wonky last nite and this morning so I couldn't post about our fabulous dinner last night. But I will soon. The pictures below are of our day spent roaming the city with Richard & Jonno and our new friends Eric & Brian. Because, I know enquiring minds will want to know... the little hottie with his belly exposed is Brian.

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We're on day 3 of our San Francisco vacation. So far, we've mostly shopped and spent a ridiculous amount of money on food. We gorged on dim sum in Chinatown, had a nice homey meal at Chow, near the Castro, last night with Jonno and Richard and had dinner on Monday at Postrio, one of Wolfgang Puck's restaurants. We ate there out of ennui, because it's attached to our hotel and we were

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So, to make up for the fact that I didn't get nearly as much rest yesterday as I should have, I spent today relaxing by making purchase at Lowe's gardening department and then planting 4 vincas, 3 pots of caladiums, a jasmine vine, 2 ornamental sweet potato vines and 6 shrimp plants.Is there such a thing as yard addiction?

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If you happen to wonder how my life in Lafayette is different from my life in New Orleans... yesterday may give you a clue. A typical day off from work in New Orleans consisted of sleeping late because I was hungover, walking to Juan's Flying Burrito for lunch and taking the streetcar to the Quarter to have coffee with a friend. Whereas, here's what I did with my day off yesterday...I mowed

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Songs I'm digging right now...Chelsea - Stefy Equal parts No Doubt and Eurythmics, this is a great summer party song, at least in my way of seeing things. Dangerous Muse - The Rejection Only the New York club scene could have spawned the heteroflexible, oh so ironic Dangerous Muse. If you like Fischerspooner and The Scissor Sisters, you'll like Dangerous Muse, even tho their sound is nothing

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The sleeper awakens... at least momentarily...So, I figure that I could share with y'all what I'm hip to lately...TV shows... I can't get enough of the new Doctor Who. I watched the first season on SciFi and I'm currently pirating the second season from the Web as it airs on the BBC. I went through a brief Doctor Who phase as a young lad, but that's not one of those things you admit to. But

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Miami

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I'm getting tired of mangrove trees

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Blurry baby eagles

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Our wake

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Don't ask

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Duval st at 2amish

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Too much snorkeling

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Gay boys at our reef. Not quite close enough

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Sand Reef marker

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Burgers at sea

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As we chase a gay diving boat, Don puts out the gay flag

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One hopes autopilot is on

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Off to the reefs

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Yesterday was lazy hungover day. Scott and Dave are cranky hangover boys. Don and I spent most of the day shopping on Duval Street, buying necessities like overpriced flip flops and italian made shirts and windchimes made from glass and driftwood. After a dreadful dinner at another horrible dive bar, we watched the sunset at Mallory Square. Tonight, I'm set on having the Crispy Duck at

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Good morning!

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Waiting for sunset

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Oh mojito, how I love you!

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Does Pellegrino cure hangovers?

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So, I guess I'm gonna be blogging my vacation... does that make me a bitch? I thought a few of my friends might get a kick out of getting minor updates along the way. And now that I've figured out how to send photos from my phone straight to the blog, that's gonna be a fun thing to do the rest of the week. We also have wireless internet here at the Marina ($21 for 3 days... gee, that was

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Seastreet, our floating hotel

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The Galleon Marina at Key West

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Smoking the customary first cigar in a Key West dive bar. Whee!--Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com

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So, we're at sea, on our way to Key West, listening to cds I made for last years boat trip. Boy was I into supergay disco last year...--Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com

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We're on vacation!This is day 3 of 9 days yachting around Florida. We spent our first night docked at Miami Beach Marina. I got to see my friend Gonzalo's glorious South Beach high rise apartment. And we spent a little time eating and drinking in South Beach. I always thought i'd hate Miami, but I was wrong. It's very beautiful. As are the people... and the cars... and the dogs... and etc

drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661215431714946563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3004329.post-1143831227249102102006-03-31T12:45:00.000-06:002006-03-31T12:53:47.260-06:00

So, today marks exactly one year ago that I left New Orleans to move to Lafayette. And what did I do to celebrate? I went to the DMV. As of today, my official home address is Lafayette, LA.I suppose it's all worked out pretty well for me. I have a smart sexy boyfriend here. We have an amazing four bedroom house smack in the middle of town in what was recently described in a local magazine

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I promise I'll get around to posting something of substance again soon...My blog got me through the storms... i was able to externalize a lot of my internal madness during that period by madly typing away to the world things that I wasn't able to say to my housemates at the time. And things that we were all saying.But then I hit a period where I really didn't want to talk about it, write about

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A few minutes ago I was looking at my blog from last year and I realized that Don and I met a year ago today... So, today... I bring you classic on tender hooks... this is a post I wrote about Don last November...So... a little over a month ago, I mentioned going to my friend Kris' birthday party in Lafayette. I briefly mentioned meeting someone new at the party.A couple of weeks ago, he came

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Apologies for not posting sooner, but we're all fine here in Lafayette. We got lots of wind and rain. Areas around us are experiencing flooding, but rest assured that we're high and dry. We've got lots of cleaning up to do in the yard, but nothing too major. My store didn't fare as well, experiencing some relatively severe roof leaks. I spent most of the afternoon yesterday dealing with

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Since Chris asked...Yup, we're hunkered down. Our little commune of five people, six dogs and three cats are holding fast here in Lafayette. There's a new update coming in about 20 minutes, but as of now the eye of the storm should be a significant distance from us when it comes onshore. We're told to expect winds of 40-60 mph and a hell of a lot of rain. The rain has already started in

drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661215431714946563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3004329.post-1127397138661483492005-09-22T08:47:00.000-05:002005-09-22T08:52:18.666-05:00

Well.. here we go again...It looks like Rita is most likely heading towards Galveston. But, she's big. And we're on the bad side. And hurricanes just love to take that last minute move to the right.For now, we're assuming we're going to be okay, but we're watching it closely. At the least, we're going to be in for a lot of rain this weekend. Hopefully nothing worse...And now we have

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This is where I lived the past five years... five of the happiest years of my life...My friend Jeremy sent me the pic tonite. And I'm stunned. It doesn't look real... it can't be...And the worst part was having to call my friend Lorna, who still lived upstairs on the left side, and tell her to check her email for the pictures... I never want to have to do anything like that again in my life.I

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I haven't written much because it turned into sort of a rough week. I went from seeing that picture of a body two blocks from my old apartment building to seeing CNN footage the next day of the block that I lived on for the last five years burning.I'd thought I was past the worst of the shock, but that put me into a 24 hour tailspin of depression. I guess it just made it all a lot more personal

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You may or may not have seen this photo in the media over the past couple of days. I'd noticed it, but in the midst of such a deluge of images and information over the past week, it didn't stand out that much to me.And then last night, I read a short paragraph about the photo."In New Orleans' Garden District, a woman's body lay at the corner of Jackson Avenue and Magazine Street — a business

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One thing I haven't written much about is the response of my employer. Barnes and Noble has completely exceeded any expectation I had of how they would respond. There are 300 booksellers affected by the hurricane and 13 stores, including the college stores and B. Daltons.They've put together teams of people to deal with the crisis. And they're doing an amazing job. Everyone of those 300

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I'm terribly sorry that i haven't updated all day, but I worked today and we've had a lot going on around here tonight. I've barely looked at the news today, so I don't really know what's going on in the city... and I don't want to know right now...I got off work around 7 tonight and came home to a relatively saner home. I think we're all starting to slip back into something slightly closer to

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Where the fuck is the federal government? Are they just going to sit on their asses while the people trapped in the city slowly die off? Are they willing to let what's left of the city burn? This is a disgrace. Our president, who I admit I've never liked, has offered us no real solutions or information. Where's the water the people in the city need? Where's food? Where are the troops? Oh

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two great moments in our life...don's sister and her husband arrived tonight... after spending 3 days on the westbank of the post hurricane city... they're amazing heroes... they cooked everything they had and fed people less fortunate than them before they left town...and... when don took them to our empty townhouse to set them up in their new temporary home, he finally found Sam, his cat who

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random moments from my life...going to Target yesterday with Richard and pulling out my checkbook to pay and having this momentary flash of panic thinking, "they're not gonna take my check, it and my license have a New Orleans address"going to buy cigarettes earlier (because I'm up to two packs a day right now, and I was jonesing for my next one, getting into the car afterwards and putting the

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Hmm... I just realized how utterly accurate the title of my blog is right now...

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An interesting side effect of a house full of people in crisis mode who are all armed with wireless laptops is that we communicate some of our more serious feelings to one another through our blogs and some of the minor things by Instant Messenger.I just read Richard's blog... and even though I've said it to him verbally many times already, I hope he understands that I don't know if I would have

drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661215431714946563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3004329.post-1125594020180954772005-09-01T11:54:00.000-05:002005-09-01T12:00:20.180-05:00

Don just called me from his business to tell us all to be extremely careful when we go out because there have been multiple armed robberies around the city of Lafayette today.*sigh*

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Ok.. one thing I wrote in haste that i have to reconsider was saying i wish they'd shoot the looters.There are different levels to the whole looting situation. While I'm horribly angry about the people taking luxury items and brandishing (and using) guns, I understand the need to find the things you need for basic survival.

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Ok.. so everyone in our house isn't completely freaked out... some are getting more sleep than others...

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More good news... i sent my friend Jill a text message asking about her mother who I was pretty sure had remained in Lakeview, one of the most flooded areas, and she replied "EVAC TO WA PARISH & HEARD FROM HER YEST... FINALLY".This is how we communicate in South Lousiana now in little snippets of text that you may get instantly or that may arrive a day later. Sometimes if you're persistent and

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It's a little intimidating to wake up and discover that I've been linked in the British news media. I don't feel like I've been saying anything of much substance beyond doing some cathartic rambling...The national news channels are very hard to watch right now. I'm sensing a turn towards blame... to city officials and the people of New Orleans. Meanwhile, where are the mentions that since

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