Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

So this is just one more example of how I lose time. I was working on NaNoWriMo, really, I was. I’m also fighting with a really nasty cold that just won’t let go, Alison had a sleepover, and blah blah blah.
So what do I get caught up in? I started finally editing photos from November [...]

Alison’s off in DC attending the Presidential Classroom, her chosen topic being Global Heath & Environment. In one week she’ll have met many more official honchos than I have in my life.
And she’ll handle it just fine- that’s not my concern. She was even elected Executive Director of her class, and will [...]

So there have been two stories I can’t stop thinking about in the last 24 hours, and both make my chair involuntarily slide further left.

Fox news headline: ‘Outraged liberals: Stop picking on Obama’s baby mama’

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Hour gongs were being struck all across the city and night-watchmen were proclaiming that it was indeed midnight and also that, in the face of all the evidence, all was well. Many of them got as far as the end of the sentence before being mugged.
-Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

Once a month we, the community, meet [...]

We missed the parade because of Prom, but were there for the big afterparty and had a very good time quaffing and suchlike.
Love this…the required proper attire is clearly a relative thing.

Lots of bemused tourists were Aaarrrghed at, and I proved something I long assumed- no matter how fierce your outfit (or, okay, costume), [...]

I was going to bow out, but talked to Charlie last night, and he’s pretty hardcore. Not only does he want to go to the parade, he wants me to go to the symposia as well.
I didn’t have too much of a problem blowing off work (Not like I’m going to fire myself, 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 [...]

Detroit is taking a page from Nagin’s songbook.
 In Mayor Kilpatrick’s state of the city address:
DETROIT — Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lashed out at his opponents and the news media at the end of his 70-minute State of the City Address on Tuesday. He accused them of creating a “lynch mob mentality” in the scandal over [...]

Jeez, don’t be so judgemental, y’all- just because CRay was spotted with his security guy at the Herb Import Company…
Look, they have other things, too, like…uh… let’s see. Vitamins. Plus incense and stuff. It’s very stressful being the mayor, and showing up for…oh, wait. He doesn’t do that part.
There’s all that votin…scratch that.
And then there’s [...]