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About Me

Hey y'all!
I'm loving life here in New Orleans, having finally moved here from NE Alabama. I've got a great old apartment Uptown on Napoleon Ave., and I'm hoping to discover all that this fine city has to offer.
Laissez les bon temps roullez!
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Here are some favorite quotes of mine:
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1755.
"All was not lost until the moment when all had succeeded." -- Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, on the anniversary of Waterloo, 1821.
"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." -- Benjamin Disraeli, to the House of Commons, 1845.
"There is no sin except stupidity." -- Oscar Wilde, 1891.
"Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become only a study for archaeologists...But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio". -- Lafcadio Hearn, on the state of life in New Orleans, 1897
"The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is." -- Winston Churchill, to the House of Commons, 1918.
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925.
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933
"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." -- Edward R. Murrow, 1954.
" Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world." -- Charles de Gaulle, 1959.
"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, to the United Nations, 1961.
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My Interests

I love the cinema (they don't call me a movie whore for nothing), visiting new places, digging through junk stores to find a diamond in the rough, collecting old jazz records (and I do mean vinyl), cooking for friends, curling up with a good book . . .

Socialist - You believe the free market can be
beneficial, but that a large and powerful
state is necessary to redistribute the wealth
of the top classes to those of the bottom.
You also think that basic utilities and
trasportation should be publicly owned. Your
historical role model is Eugene Debs.

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You scored as Democrat.

Democrat

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Socialist

75%

Anarchism

75%

Green

67%

Communism

42%

Fascism

17%

Nazi

Republican

0%
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I'd like to meet:

I'm looking to meet new people down here in old New Orleans. Really, I'm in to anyone who is passionate about their life and their interests. I don't have time to waste on flakes and assholes (already had my fill of them back in Alabama), but I want to meet people who can show me more of this lovely old city.
And Dr. Zoidberg!

"What, you want that I should dance for my dinner?"

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Which vampire from the Vampire Chronicles By Anne Rice are you?

Louis de Pointe du Lac
You are Louis de Pointe du Lac. Louis was created by Lestat after he had lost all hope for life and existence and this attracted Lestat. Louis gave in to the choice, and under Lestat became a vampire. But Louis was quickly horrified by what he had become, and soon refused to slay humans, and rather, fed off animals or not at all. He is ravaged hopelessly by grief and sorrow, and always the quest for answers, and the fear that there may be none. He is a miserable vampire, but throughout his life, he finds moments of happiness. Mon Dieu, Louis! Will nothing make you smile?

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Music:

I heart vintage jazz: Miles Davis, Coltrane, Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughn, Charlie Parker and more.
Other artists I love: Coldplay, Jamie Cullum, Chemical Bros., Oakenfold, Michael Buble, Radiohead, John Mayer, David Morales.
Guilty pleasure: Taylor Dayne (Tell it to my Heart, Mel!) ;-)

Movies:

I do love the cinema!
I couldn't really list all the movies I love, but some of my all-time favorites are: American Beauty, Sunset Boulevard, Donnie Darko, The Hours, Casablanca, The Black Dahlia, All About Eve, An Affair to Remember, I Heart Huckabees, Closer...

Television:

Brian.. yes i know theres a typo...

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Books:

I have an M.A. in English, so I guess it figure that I had 15 boxes of books to move down here.
Favorite Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, W. Somerset Maugham, E. M. Forster, Ayn Rand, Patricia Highsmith, Albert Camus, Michael Cunningham, George Orwell, Henry James, to name a few.The two best novels of all time (in my humble opinion): Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The final three paragraphs of Gatsby constitute quite possibly the finest passage in American literature.
I love early 20th century American short fiction, Gothic novels, and most of the great novelists of the Modern period.

My Blog

The Fall of the House on Mountain Street.

I guess it’s true what they say: you can never go home again.On Monday, the 21st of January, 2008, the House on Mountain Street in Jacksonville was torn down. After 61 years, it took mere ...
Posted by Theauxmas on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:03:00 PST

Thanks for the Memories / A New Beginning

I was walking down a back street in the Quarter a week or so ago, and a particular cluster of buildings reminded me of the back side of the buildings on the Square in J'ville, the ones I would pass on...
Posted by Theauxmas on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:14:00 PST

Goodbye, Little Brick House, or, Smoke and Mirrors

I had not set out that fine fall day to forever change the course of my life. I was merely en route to post payment for some bill, likely overdue. And then I saw those three little words which s...
Posted by Theauxmas on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:59:00 PST

The Scottish Play

Have I wasted the best years of my life in this impious backwater? A decade spent. Gone. Never to be recovered. The years begin to weigh down upon me. I've neglected my one true gift, always bemoan...
Posted by Theauxmas on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:25:00 PST

The Importance of Being Authentic and Other Musings on Honor and Integrity

When I was a boy, my Dad told me something which has always stuck with me: that a man is only as good as his word. As an adult, I've always tried to live with that as a ruling principle. I...
Posted by Theauxmas on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:14:00 PST

The Sooth-Seeker: a poem of reflection

Here's a little poem I wrote, while contemplating my journey to enlightenment. Let me know what you think. The Sooth-SeekerA decade spent like a monk in orders,Poring o'er these sacred texts of old....
Posted by Theauxmas on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:52:00 PST

The Mysterious Bonny Brook Fog and Baltzell Gate Black Hole

The other day, as we returned from an afternoon of bumming around Ox-Fjord, Donna and I couldn't help reflecting upon the anamolous features which mark the road between Jacksonville-Upon-Avon and the ...
Posted by Theauxmas on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:52:00 PST

Take the gavel, Madame Speaker!

For the first time in U.S. history, a woman will take the gavel as Speaker of the House! Nancy Pelosi of California, the fiery House Minority Leader, has fought tirelessly to lead the Dems out o...
Posted by Theauxmas on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:29:00 PST

Good Times in the Big Easy, belatedly retold

Hey guys, I know it's been a while since I've blogged, but things have been hectic. Last semester of grad school, 3 classes, oral comps in a week and a half. Ack! Anyways, here's the text of an arti...
Posted by Theauxmas on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:05:00 PST

Jamie Cullum rocks the Chastain Park Ampitheater and other ATL-related tidbits

Last weekend Melissa and I hung out in Atlanta, and had a wonderful time. The highlight of our weekend was definitely Jamie Cullum's ass-kicking set at the Chastain Park Ampitheater on Sunday ni...
Posted by Theauxmas on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 05:11:00 PST