Self-care Saturday

Feb 10, 2024 16:08

Every muscle in my body from the hips down still hurts (although it's fading), but I had a great time in New Orleans. I haven't been to Muses since before Covid and it was as much fun as I remembered. I didn't get a shoe--decorated shoes are that krewe's signature throw--but there's thousands of people at the parade and a few hundred shoes. Most ( Read more... )

krewe of muses, carnival season, skincare, henry miller, new orleans, gabriel garcia marquez

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taz_39 February 11 2024, 13:54:07 UTC
Wow, what a cool trip! Love your description of your explorations, and things about the parade that I would never have known. Thank you!

Also your description of how sitting 2.5hrs + standing for hours + walking for miles + more sitting is exhausting. Great! Now I feel justified for feeling tired on tour lol

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pinstripe_bindi February 12 2024, 22:46:40 UTC

Girl I get tired just reading about your tours 😂

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mallorys_camera February 11 2024, 14:39:28 UTC

I personally think Sexus is the best thing Henry Miller ever wrote-though, like almost all of Henry Miller, horribly Politically Incorrect!!!! 😀 But very, very, very funny.

Your descriptions of the time you spent in New Orleans are wonderful! I felt like I was there.

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pinstripe_bindi February 12 2024, 22:48:17 UTC

Oh sure, like I said I read him back in the 1990s. Even then it was like, wow that is a lot of casually tossed-around racial slurs. I don't love it but generally I can make allowances for a different era. I mean as long as someone isn't being a literal Nazi or anything.

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