Hairpiece lost on Basin Street.

[nolawitch58]

Vel and I went over to Coffea in the Bywater today to ask about our Silent Supper venue. En route, we spied a forlorn hairpiece fluttering in the breeze of traffic on Basin Street. The owner was nowhere to be found and the hairpiece looked somewhat like a dead animal until closer proximity proved otherwise. That jogged my memory and reminded me that this is Decadence Weekend. If that's the only thing lost in this city this weekend, I would be surprised.

OMG! goddessmusings, you are NOT going to believe what your old house looks like. Vel got a picture on her cellphone and will have Gil email it to me so I can post it. The new owners painted it lemon pie and canary yellow. The siding is the more muted lemon meringue pie yellow and the trim and shutters are screaming canary. I made her go around the block so we could get the photo. We couldn't see inside to find out if they'd kept the paint we all worked so hard to apply.

We went to the Superdome a half an hour before 1:00 for some Hands Around the Superdome event. Except for having a PA system playing some of the most whiny, insipid crap by some pretentious prerecorded cunt, a couple of tents, some folding chairs and an ambulance, there wasn't anybody seemingly in charge. The butt-hurting music kept playing and nobody took the mic to announce what the event was about and what we should do to participate. At a quarter of 1:00, we didn't see any progress and fewer than a dozen people so we left to make our way back to the car. Some fuckwitted twerp asked us where the event was supposed to be. We directed him to Gate C but he wanted to talk. Unfortunately, he turned out to be a complete fucktard and wasted ten minutes of our lives bragging that he was a Republican. When he quoted Rush Limburger as a reliable source, I asked, "Is that the Oxycontin-fueled crap Rush the comedian is spewing these days?" The guy didn't seem to hear that so we escaped to less idiot heavy areas. We would have gladly stayed but it didn't look like they could organize their way out of a wet paper bag with both ends open.

We watched The Departed tonight. What a hell of a great movie. Scorcese deserved all the accolades and more with that. The cast just kicked all kinds of ass, literally and figuratively. There wasn't a bad performance in the lot. I got kinda choked up when Martin Sheen's character got killed. I've got a soft spot for him. I remember his fine performance in Badlands a million years ago and he was so brilliant in West Wing for all those years. Good on The Departed that I didn't see the ending coming and was surprised by the denouement.

Now I'm going to see if my dearest hmc_lavadogs wants to watch Real Time with me. I missed it last night for drinks at a new neighborhood bar after Sam and my third degree initiation ritual. We had a bizarre competition with some other patrons that were playing country music. We'd play Metallica and Slayer and they'd play some wretched crap that I don't even recognize. It made my brain hurt, though.

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[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

I always think it's a bad idea to revisit a house after you've sold it. The new owners rarely do things to it of which you'd approve. There's actually a reality show on one of the Home Fix-Up channels on the satellite that does just that - takes 2 couples who have bought new houses Couple A bought Couple B's house, and Couple B buys a house from Couple C. After everyone is done with their remodeling, they take the old owners through the house and get their reactions. C was very upset at what B did to their house; B thought A's changes worked for A, but figured they hired a decorator (which they did).

I know that I was sad at what the new owners did to a tree on my old property, and I'm sure the owners of the house I'm in now would be horrified at all the Pagan stuff hanging all over the place, and the lack of wallpaper (and the big Ganesh sarong in the all-glass front door). And if the guy that's buying my house down the street paints over my mural in the kitchen, I Do Not Want to know about it.

Do you have any photos of that mural?

[tomo2k.livejournal.com]

Cloning murals is fairly easy if you have an OHP or dataprojector, and some time.

Re: Do you have any photos of that mural?

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

I don't want that mural in the new house. But I do have photos of it. If I do a mural here (or *another* mural, as I've started one in the bathroom when we moved in - the "background coat" is up. I haven't had time to get back to it - it's on the list of things to do after the other house is sold).

And I have an opaque projector, that projects paper artifacts, purchased at an art supply store. Most of my source material is in books or from sketches that I've drawn. It's significantly cheaper than a dataprojector. (it was a couple hundred dollars when projectors were all running over 2K. I've had it a while now)

Re: Do you have any photos of that mural?

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I posted a photo of it in my LJ, just for you :)

LOL

[winteroses.livejournal.com]

I'd heard about the horrid yellow right before I left for vacation. A friend that still lives in the n'hood drove by it and said it was pretty bad. I need to call my old neighbor.

No, I can pretty much assure you they did not keep any of our colors. The wife had mentioned to my real estate agent all her new colors she was planning for every room, nothing was going to stay the same. I'm curious to see a picture. This couple had a lot of money, no brains and just generally lacked sense, so I doubt they have taste.

So are you going to have silent supper at Coffea? What a great location! I loved that place. She opened right before we started commuting to Laf. and we really hated to move just because we didn't want to give up our little neighborhood. She makes killer crepes!

*Heh, just realized I'm posting form my photography blog and not from goddessmusings. Meh, you know who it is! :-)

Re: LOL

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

Yeah. If you drive by it when next you're in town, wear sunglasses.

Coffea is supposed to be hosting our Silent Supper, but the owner said it's on the market. If it's not sold before then, we're welcome to use it; if it has sold, we're going to Plan B which is to have it in Vel's temporary place while her house is demolished and rebuilt.

Re: LOL

[winteroses.livejournal.com]

I'll keep my fingers crossed that it doesn't sell before Silent Supper. That's a bummer, I loved that coffee shop, great character in that old building.

I've been debating colors for some of the rooms in the place and I've decided that I must keep that yellow we all have. I'm not sure where I'll put it yet, possibly the living room again, it would certainly be bright enough. Or possibly the dining room. I have a lot of black and white NOLA photographs in there and that might add nicely.

Re: LOL

[entheos93.livejournal.com]

She's selling? That sucks. She seems to be doing so well, there- I wonder why she'd sell. If she's hurting for biz (which I can't really see) I could easily tell her that being open some more reasonable hours would make a big difference.
If the overly yellow house you're talking about is in Bywater, I think I know the one. It's quite painful.

Re: LOL

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

That's what she said yesterday. The place was packed so she's not hurting for business. Maybe she's leaving because she's got a kid and the crime situation is freaking her out. I don't really know and wasn't nosy enough to ask. Her crepes are unbelievable.

The yellow house is on Burgundy near the intersection of Louisa. There's another one around the corner on Louisa. Both make my retinas bleed.

[patrixa.livejournal.com]

re the GOP: if you haven't yet read today's Doonesbury (9/02), then do so. It's rather interesting if not too surprising. Well, ok, I was surprised by the numbers but not by the ones who caused them.