Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing

[<sarah>]

Does everyone else already have this book? I'm always the last to know . . . Anyway it's fun as the title would imply, and here's a quote from the introduction which is just great:
"But spiritual quests aren't so simple, and sometimes they lure the seeker into smoky barrooms and the arms of an unexpected lover. Hot Damn! Or maybe not. It's futile, I suppose, to defend smoking, drinking, and fucking. Nevertheless, not to defend smokers, drinkers, and fuckers would be a terrible mistake. Who wants to live in a world without them, without their libidinous hunger, without their exalted obsessions? They take the joy and sometimes the pain of living to the very edge and shout back instructions, dire caveats, titillating weather reports. They inspire great writing and bring a reader's blood to the boiling point. Without them, the world might be simple and clean, but it wouln't be deliciously, fascinatingly, pathetically human, would it?
Nor would it be much fun." -- Bob Shacochis
Couldn't have said it better myself, Bob!

[<sarah>]

Since I've had nothing to do this evening, and New Orleans was so cruelly brought up, and I looked through all the pictures, and thought, are these new or in a different order, or what? But any way, I'm thinking about the first time I ever went to the Big Easy, and it was nothing like the places I'd been before. We went in June, I was a whole lot younger, and niave -- stupid, so we didn't know how hot it would be, but it was great. Sweating and dancing in the street and taking a taxi back "home" to our sleazy hotel. And creeping around in the graveyard and eating --the food is so good, just flavor! Everything has flavor, the dirty stinking gutters have flavor. The stupid drunk ass tourists (me) have flavor. It was better than knowing the place; it was discovering that it existed. The last night there, my best friend just had to go to a tit bar, and I said, "No, that's too much for me." I regretted that -- should have done it -- would have been fun. Although we did go back later when I was a little older and not niave

[mccutcheon]

Sarah, you know that picture of me where I'm naked except for a book? Well that is the one, baby. And that photo was taken more than five years ago, but don't fret, I'm still sexy! Yes, it is a great anthology. Where should the Pax Acidus party be this year? How about New Orleans? How close do you and the hubby live from there? I&#8217;m trying to get Kyle to meet me there in February.