Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

…now, c’mon, how do you resist this??
Unless you’re a grownup, I mean.

It turns out that I’m not going to be spending the whole weekend in the Quarter. I took some time to go a little more carefully through the PyrateCon site, and discovered that, unlike me, many people take this quite seriously.
There are lectures and symposia all day long while the pillaging and misbehaving is [...]

The original plan was to go hang out in the French Quarter for the big, free festival this weekend, but it didn’t quite come together.
Friday things kicked off downtown, and while I was getting dressed, the local news was covering the opening, including all of the new stuff for kids- special musical acts, crafts, and [...]

… and sometimes that’s a good time (like this story) but all too often it’s that they don’t/can’t think and just pull out a gun instead.
I much prefer these sort of white trash idiots:
(condensed from the Times-Picayune):
After allegedly stealing $5,000 from the Slidell convenience store where she worked, a Mississippi woman and her husband began a [...]

This morning I realized I was out of…oh, pretty much everything. Not that it mattered in terms of Turkey Day, since we’re lazily eating out, but, still.
So, sort of dreading it, I went to the grocery, expecting people mobbing the store, but no. There were lots of people wandering around on their cells, asking [...]

The doorbell begins its annoying song, setting off a blur of dog tumbleweed racing through the house and smashing into the front door. The blinds chink and clink as the dogs attack them, looking for an opening to investigate who dared approach their domain.
“Alright, quiet girls!” I yell over the yowling. Still hoping against hope, [...]