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Billy sat in his cloister trying very hard not to hear his mother’s screams. It was impossible….
Democracy, Davis concluded, was at odds with effective population control and stability in Asia; the only political system for the continent’s mushrooming megacities was a “strong government that stands in contrast to the populace in skill as well as power…
He did not own much, nor did he care to. His life was what he thought suited…
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared November 27, 2011. Coco Robicheaux passed away Friday evening. Much has…
Note: This post originally appeared August 29, 2010. I thought it might be relevant to run again in light of the encroaching demise of the Times-Picayune.
We were supposed to have a garage sale on Sunday, August 28, 2005. We had recently moved into a house we bought in Central City and had cleaned out our old Broadmoor apartment and planned to sell the odds and ends that didn’t make it to our new home. It was to be the final hurrah of our move. Suffice to say we evacuated the night before and the garage sale never happened. I didn’t get back into town for another three weeks, but there on the second floor of our old apartment’s stoop was our last Times-Picayune, still in the plastic and dry. I tossed the paper in the car and drove back to Houston. I finally pulled that newspaper out of its plastic bag this weekend.
A text message from a neighbor: “Did you see your mail today?” I hadn’t. Intrigued I headed…
This is me, John Sheppard, not some writerly pose. This is me talking, so listen up, take…
Avoid the occasion of sin, that is, all persons, places and objects usually leading to sin. Be…
I know a Mandingo warrior. Usually he does home repair and he’s got a catering thing, but for Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained currently in production in New Orleans, he became a Mandingo warrior for a day, fighting another Mandingo warrior no less, with the aid of three shots of tequila that folks on set downed before the scene. No idea if he’ll make it in the final cut.
Last Tuesday I was a NYC hipster circa 2008 for HBO’s Treme. I’d registered with Caballero Casting hoping to score a role as an extra in the Treme shoot scheduled the second Sunday of Jazz Fest (Fais Do Do stage for an hour or so, then released to enjoy the Fest) but instead got called up for the NYC hipster circa 2008 group a few days post-Fest.
Two years before I joined the Army, and two-and-a-half years before Chess had gone so obviously insane…
In this excerpt from Alpha Mike Foxtrot (a novel from Paragraph Line Books), Joe Dugan, a soldier…
“A 17-year-old has been arrested in the shooting of a 13-year-old boy who was caught in crossfire…