Check out the 38 essentials (according to Eater) that you must try when in the Big Easy. Dat Dog, Boucherie, Jacques-imo’s, St. James, Cochon, and Domilise’s (a Manning family favorite) clock in among my favorites.
…I like how I just named half the list as my “favorite.”
NOLA food, how do I love (and miss) thee? Let me count the ways…
Came across this quote today and ask someone who has been called ‘blunt,’ ‘direct,’ and ‘straight forward’ on topics ranging from love to politics to whatever falls between those (I think with negative connotations) I appreciate even more the wise advice of the late Harvey Milk:
Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really.
In honor of the holiday on Thursday, which crept up more quickly than I ever remember it, I took some time to pen a list of thanks. My advice, not that you asked, is that you should do the same. It’s always worth remembering, cherishing, and being thankful for what you have when you have it. Check out my list on The Zesty Digest and then go make your own. And because no glamor shots from the high school glory (?) days made it on the list, a small smattering of memories made especially to make amends with Molly B. Kadish. I’d suggest putting on something particularly nostalgic – Teenage Dirtbag, or maybe some When We Were Young to fully enjoy this quick trip down 914 lane.
and finally, because we remembered this so fondly the other night…..
Ke$ha + One Direction = super empty calorie pop that you can’t help but hate/love…oh, and dance to. Lots of dancing to this one.
Elections are over. Two articles relating to it all, and more importantly, working together going forward. Seems like we can all agree on that.
John Boehner says: “election results are a mandate for us to work together”
And I say: Good, here’s a personal invitation for you all to do your jobs already.
These days, it seems that one of the few things our nation can agree on is how divided we are. But is there a way to make our government stop fighting and start fixing?
From my day job: How to (maybe) fix the fighting in Congress
You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say I am going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that has ever been built, you don’t start there. You say I am going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid, and you do that every single day, and soon you have a wall.
Thought Catalog quoting the Fresh Prince, Will Smith. The rest of this article was actually pretty good. Check it out The “Oh, Crap, I’m Seriously Getting Old Freak Out.” And enjoy the freak out that will surely ensure after even though it doesn’t make much sense.
I never thought I’d have this much to say on the fuzzy, yellow bird that was a part of my television upbringing. I love me some Sesame Street – check out this run down of Big Bird’s after-bedtime Saturday Night Live appearance!
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