Le Bon Temps
We shared a table with a Canadian couple the other night, Saturday, waiting for the parade to start. He was already four scotches in and still seemed mighty sober. She was adjusting her scarf, watching out for him, watching out …
Category: Cassander
The Big Slump
I’m in a writing slump. Not really writer’s block, just a slump. Never prepared and out of energy. The end of Daylight Savings time always gets to me. I hate that it gets dark before I’ve even left work. I …
The Cassander Canon: I’d Rather Be Dead than Cool
Final week of my bullshit archive posts! This is one of the first ever for GS, and probably the one that made Nacho really take me under his wing. That, and I also usually delivered something on time in an …
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The Cassander Canon: Meet the Tosers
We’re running my supposedly finer material from the past while I take some extra time to write some stories that need a little more attention. This week, one I’ve never felt completely sure about but that Nacho likes quite a …
The Cassander Canon: RIP HST
I’m currently on reverse sabbatical…taking time off from weekly updates to work on longer material with which to wow you next month. In the meantime we’re doing a kind of greatest hits thing. This is my obituary for Hunter S. …
The Cassander Canon: Cunt, Snatch and Glory
I’m taking a sabbatical this month, so you’re getting old school pre-2006 hiatus golden nuggets! This week is “Cunt, Snatch, and Glory,” an excerpt from my unfinished, unnamed novel about a groupe of people who never left the small Ohio …
Brave Captain Harvey-It’s All About the Money, Part 2
I sat in my living room with my feet up, the dog by my side whimpering. Harvey was in the shower, slapping lather up and down his arms and gargling. The water shut off and he stomped in the tub …
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Brave Captain Harvey-It’s All About the Money Part 1
Friday. The day I have off of work and to myself, the day countless New Orleanians leave for lunch and don’t come back. It’s oyster day, fish day, shrimp day. It’s the day Happy Hour starts at 10 a.m. and …
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Jimi at Woodstock
It’s been delightful seeing you. May we wish you anything that the person next to you wishes for you. Good wishes, good day, and goodnight. Farewell. -Chip Monck’s Benediction to the crowd at Woodstock Jimi played with the whole festival …
Lists!
A soulless six day work week and a gray, half-alive Sunday for me means more slightly amusing lists for you. Enjoy!