How not to behave

From Poppy Z. Brite’s Dispatches from Tanganyika, a note on fashion for the upcoming Carnival season in New Orleans: It’s the first day of Carnival season! We have a short one this year (Mardi Gras is Feb. 8 ), so get your king cake, parade, and, yes, bead on early. I should repeat my dicta Continue reading How not to behave

Odd thing in the sky

There’s a big shiny thing in the sky. I’m afraid to go outside! But seriously, I take it as a miracle when the clouds part though the weather.com forecast said clouds at least for the next week or so. I figure, you got to take your miracles when you can get ’em.

Words of One Syllable Dept.

Words of Humor division 🙂 Beautiful Atrocities: Disposable Wisdom Hi, I’m Barbara Boxer. It’s not easy being a woman in a man’s Congress. Usually I laugh off things like partial-birth abortion & White House blowjobs, but sometimes the pressures of imaginary election fraud are just too much. That’s why I take Turbo-femme®, the all-natural hormone Continue reading Words of One Syllable Dept.