i stayed up half the night watching cnn, drinking wine from a plastic bacchus cup in front of the television, listening to arlo guthrie's version of "the city of new orleans" over and over, stunned silent ( Read more... )

trent lott's new book is called herding cats: a life in politics. i would like to point out that i have been using the phase "it's like herding cats" for much longer than trent lott has been publishing autobiographies, and i am VERY UPSET about awful republican senators appropriating my phases for their own personal use. he didn't even give me a ( Read more... )

The radio is doing a string of songs about New Orleans and it's making it really, really hard for me not to pick up and run off to New Orleans right this second, to sit in seedy bars getting progressively drunker on hurricanes and feeding endless quarters into the jukebox.

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