Happy Birthday, Dear Ken
Today would have been John Kennedy Toole's 70th birthday. I brought flowers to the cemetery and had a late lunch of semi-edible supermarket sushi with him.
Here's me in my Ignatius hat, but I had to use the automatic timer and the shadows were bad.
Here's what somebody wrote in the new cement at the end of the alley where the Ducoing/Toole mausoleum is:
After that, I paid a brief visit to some other friends. This is the first time I've visited the Casamento family mausoleum since Mr. Joe was entombed. He died in Oxford, MS on August 29, 2005 as a result of stress from Hurricane Katrina and being away from New Orleans.
And for comic relief after all those graves, here's a picture of Chris and Junior reading the funnies last night:
Here's me in my Ignatius hat, but I had to use the automatic timer and the shadows were bad.
Here's what somebody wrote in the new cement at the end of the alley where the Ducoing/Toole mausoleum is:
After that, I paid a brief visit to some other friends. This is the first time I've visited the Casamento family mausoleum since Mr. Joe was entombed. He died in Oxford, MS on August 29, 2005 as a result of stress from Hurricane Katrina and being away from New Orleans.
And for comic relief after all those graves, here's a picture of Chris and Junior reading the funnies last night: