S – super strong (for her age), spectacular (cat), special, soulful, spiritual, sweet
I had heard this song long before ever moving to New Orleans, as I am a HUGE Louis Jordan fan: Basically, it details the trials of man locked out of his apartment who, knowing that his roommate, Richard, is inside, begins beating on the door…
[Photo credit: Chris Tamm] have you been injured by one simple phone call? just three easy payments brings immediate relief falling in love is easy with this amazing non-stick coating scars and age spots disappear that embarrassing acne: gone stop those creditor calls with this…
Photo credit: kpishdadi The voice, I thought, would get me girls. It didn’t. After my first girlfriend, Dee, there wasn’t a second one until after high school, until I was well into college. I was missing something, an essential part of manliness, which I could…
“You can be whatever you want to be.” It’s a common piece of advice people have given over time, and it’s something you would most definitely hear in an after school special or “The More You Know” PSAs. As cliche as it sounds, I’m the…
Photo credit: Jackson Square, Dec. 1995 or 1996. All rights reserved © Patrick J. Cain. Photo used with permission. Talented musicians are not merely born. Granted, there are those that have more talent or natural abilities. It’s true for many vocations. There’s the kid that…
Photo credit: Stefano Corso All G Bitch has had to say about the Zimmerman verdict is in the posts below, in quotes from The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. _____ “We know and we don’t know at the same time.” 7/14/13. …it is precisely…
Photo credit: Hannah Spray Yelling as an expression of anger is unhealthy for all involved. Yet the culture drips with life because of raised voices. Most times those are uttered solo; but in rare and beautiful moments, a crowd yells together. For peace. For beer….
Upon hearing the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case tonight I found myself in tears in a public place among very young people who apparently had not heard the news. I found myself crying on a bench in a local bar that I frequent and figured all the youngsters were looking at me thinking me an oldster given to maudlin moods for no apparent reason. Or maybe it was just dementia.
Photo credit: Jase Curtis He looked out at the parking lot of the mini mart where he’d been working since he came back to be with his sister and her children. He never liked Florida in the summer, but the rest of the year it…
Some of you may remember the initial post about my friend Buddy being poisoned with Agent Orange in Vietnam. More collateral damage care of our government. Lovely euphemism, eh? Just between us, it usually means someone gets killed as a by-product of waging war.
Sadly, I now write a follow-up to that post.
TEAM OWNER SECRETS…
*Question: Who spends his Friday afternoons loading up on free food samples while ogling female shoppers at the local Whole Foods, which he crassly refers to as “the land of MILFs and honey”?
Photo credit: Chicago Man 1. The hometown proud. I was at a punk show at Metro in ’86 or ’87, probably a Naked Raygun show, and some band from Minnesota was the first band on the bill. They sounded like a weak imitation of Husker…