New Orleans, LA, USA - Some women are like that. Every time you meet them it's the first time but just for this once. They tell you things like: "Still love everybody I ever loved." You want to show them you understand, so you say, "Yeah. I got that problem, too." They smile. So you want to take them out only it's not them anymore it's her.
You take her to an all-you-can-eat bar-b-que place and introduce her to your bartender friend. He's happy to see you and she starts telling him all about when "we" woke up and "we" were getting dressed and "we" were deciding what to eat and do for the day when "we" decided to come here. Even though you met her she's saying "we" like you've been married for twenty years. You sort of like that. You're happy that she would rather be a "we" than an "I" so you sit there and eat yet another spare rib....MORE
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But we're confused already. Which incarnation of LaCrosse's rock 'n' roll madness are we witnessing this time? He has three. Is this "The Boo LaCrosse Experience", "Creatures of Habit" or his new band "Fat Cock"? Festooned around the bar are pictures of a rooster emblazoned above the words "CHICKS LOVE FAT COCK." Oh-oh! G21 caught up with bandleader Boo LaCrosse at Buffa's on Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans the next evening. What follows is a rough transcript of our interview...MORE
New Orleans, LA, USA - Talk about your motley krewes! The band leader and lead singer, the infamous Boo LaCrosse, is wearing a lacey blouse unbuttoned and making double entrendre jokes between songs. Under his lovely blouse, he sports a dark bra and a pair of antennae with bouncing fury balls wobbles above his head as he belts out butt-shakin' rock 'n' roll like nobody's business. You gottah love this band, and chicks on the dance floor obviously do.
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by ROD AMIS
When the subject of a book in a "Lives" series is as compelling as Napoleon Bonaparte, and the reviewer solicited is a history buff, the expectation is for a great read. A comparable read that immediately comes to mind, in that category, is Christian Meier's exhaustive Caesar (Basic Books) which I've mentioned in these pages before. The brilliance in that book only highlights why it would be difficult to recommend to a serious history buff (let alone historian) or a lover of biographies, Paul Johnson's Napoleon. I'll get to why I think this "Lives" book is flawed first.
Johnson, an acclaimed historian, whose best-sellers include Modern Times, A History of the American People and The History of Christianity, could be accused of merely "phoning-in" this so-called biography and walking away with his ducats. The most informative part of this tome is it's closing "Further Reading" section, where Johnson recommends other books about his subject that I suspect would give greater insight than he was capable of producing in this work. He admits as much in the text, saying that he finds the mind of Bonaparte inexplicable. ...MORE
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by ROD AMIS
Any writer worth his/her salt is a voracious reader. I am. So this week, desperate for money, I sold my books.
It was painful in the extreme. But what can I do? I need food and smokes. I need a job and pounded the pavement looking for every and any kind of employment. I shook the trees, but no fruit fell...MORE
NEW ORLEANS - A peripatetic writer, living out of a travel bag has only few valuable and weighty posessions. The most valuable? His books, of course.
