I'm eating. And with abandon. I have a frozen type pizza in the oven at 4 hundred degrees and it will get such a treatment for about 14 minutes; then; after having dumped a tin of sardines in mustard sauce on the top of the pie about a quarter of the way through its cooking cycle, I will soon be chowing down and washing down with sangria. At least for tonight, this is the greatest country in the world ..read more

Aespa Girls GIFfrom Aespa GIFs With it being very early on a Wednesday morning; and me having slept maybe 5 hours within the past 24.   ..read more

Last night would have been a good night to go out and busk. I had woken up around 4 p.m. -a full 5 hours before I would have to be ready to go out. So far, it's chicken 1; turkey 0 The harmonica issue has been on my mind, having had one of my front teeth cracked after biting into a cherry pit (like the dried ones "may contain") so that there is a sharp edge to what is now a David Letterman type gap between my two front teeth (maybe I'll get another pair for Christmas...). My last time out, I almost bloodied my inner lip from playing draw notes on the thing, which was drawing some of ..read more

This sounds like from around January of 2023, and on one of those magical nights when nobody yelled "Freebird!" during the performance.  It's Tuesday and I am set to go and sell my plasma; first I might call Keshaun, whose number I have been given by Jacob about 5 weeks ago now, it seems.. Keshaun wants to do a video interview of me as a documentary. That is what his major is, as he is a college aged black guy who met Jacob through the First Baptist of Kenner church or some other way... I had the flu-like thing for about 3 weeks before my lungs cleared back to the point of a moderate smok ..read more

Proving how hard it is to put drums to a piece of music that was played without having a drummer keeping "time," this version of The Carcass Song is from January 7th, 2023, or about 2 months ago already. Jacob and I maintained a pretty even tempo on this version, and adding digital drums to it after the fact was almost as easy as creating a beat and then letting it repeat by itself. But, by the end of the song we were something like 4 tenths of a second off the tempo. That's pretty steady, but finding the spots where we slowed down a hair and then adjusting the drums accordingly is an art form ..read more

Perhaps I haven't been holding up my end of the bargain...do you think? The reason I got this free for life apartment, was because someone argued for me and made the case that this particular homeless street musician was contributing towards the rebirth of the post Katrina hurricane New Orleans. A storm which caused about half the population of the city to leave. The population went from about a million to about 450 thousand. A lot of them went to Houston, Texas I heard. And there was a push to attract street musicians who would populate the corners of Royal Street and alternatively Frenchmen ..read more

I made it to the food stamp office on Friday, where there were only 3 people ahead of me (numbers 52, 53 and 54, as I came to know them) and, after telling them that I, once again, got a letter telling me that I had until the day before I got it to submit a "simplified report" document, or else my food stamps would be cut off; I was able to complete said document, get one of them to say: "You're OK," and get out of there rather quickly.   ..read more

Today is a pretty huge day; I still have a lot of the plasma money from yesterday; and so I'm thinking I'll go get a 3 ounce bag of kratom. This will actually help me to accomplish the next task, which is to visit the food stamp office. I had let maybe 4 days go by without having looked in my mailbox. I really wasn't expecting anything; the mailbox has been pretty quiet for almost the past year; but when I did finally open it there was a letter from the food stamp people; saying that I had to complete and submit a document and, honest to God, this letter had arrived at least a day after this h ..read more

I'm getting on the next street car to go to the plasma place, copy of "A Visit From The Goon Squad," by Jennifer Egan in hand; and I am feeling the dual nature of my mind quite strongly. I don't know if I'm going to get a half bottle of red wine out of Walmart as soon as I have the 40 bucks on my plastic card; or if I'm then going to get a "tiny" hit of crack when I get off the bus on Rampart Street, feeling the buzz from having broken the rules of the bus company, and sipped down half the bottle on the 45 minute ride back to town. And then if I'm going to be able to forget the world for about ..read more

  So, yeah; I guess I was testing the algorithm to see if it still shadow banned blogs upon which appear items that contradict "the mainstream narrative." Funny word, narrative; it seems to mean a lie which is more than one false statement, sort of a short story, the upshot of which is a falsehood... I wonder why Google doesn't just go as far as removing blogs from existence, behind the hackneyed concept of  "spreading misinformation." Maybe that would bring about too much backlash from cancelled bloggers and draw attention to what the algorithm is really up to. Maybe they want the ..read more