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Booties, Bloodies, Babies: Some Recent Realizations

March 8th, 2008 2 Comments

Exhaustion. Sleep Deprivation. Revelations. Last Monday, I accidentally wore my nose ring to school. The parents descended like vultures. Not to talk about their students who are failing, but to talk about my outward defamation of the good Lord’s temple. We had an hour and a [...]

Tags: Animals · Bodies are People Too · Cutey-Pies · Day to Day

Cakes and Babies: Bring on the Fat

January 5th, 2008 685 Comments

King Cakes are on the shelves!!! This can only mean one thing: Mardi Gras is coming! In about a week, the first parade, Krewe de Vieux, kicks off this season of grimy hands clawing through orange messes of boiled crawfish, magnificent twinkling floats coming down St. Charles, no time for naps between [...]

Tags: Animals · Day to Day

Sports News

December 5th, 2007 194 Comments

My name is in the paper- my name is in the paper! (To the tune of nanny-nanny-boo-boo). (What is nanny nanny boo boo??)
I’ve had my eye on him for years: Jayson NIX , #1 in the Colorado Rockies 2001 draft, is poised, at long last, to take the second base position of Asian [...]

Tags: Animals · Cutey-Pies · Day to Day · Sports