Tag: Mississippi

I’m sitting on Marshall’s toilet, writing this entry

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Normally that wouldn’t seem so interesting, but since I’ve gotten my laptop and wireless internet, I’m fascinated at what I can do. You see, I’m a geek – but I’m accustomed to being really broke all the time. In the wake of Katrina I’ve aquired a little nestegg of FEMA money so that I can restore my tattered life to a state hopefully better than it was. My only purchases so far has been some clothes (~$400) and my new laptop ($650.) Oh, and some porn, but I digress. Along with the laptop I bought a wireless router for my future digs and for Marshall’s house while I stay with him.

Therefore, I am posting this while sitting on Marshall’s toilet.

Regardless…

I’ve spent the last week helping my sister Kay and my friend Debbie salvage what little they could from their respective houses. Kay had 2 feet of water, debbie had ~14 feet (one word: Lakeview.)

It’s fascinating to see how different people react to similar stimuli. I lost everything and I pretty much accepted it as a rebirth from the get-go. I didn’t need that stuff anyway and yeah it sucks that I didn’t get my bike and my computer and my childhood stuff but in the end my cats and I are ok. That’s what matters to me.

Kay is really upset that all the furniture they just bought, with cash, for the new house is destroyed. They said ‘fuck it’ and moved to a small town in Mississippi. They bought a house like I’d buy a porn site membership, on a whim. Sure they’re AGAIN up to the eyeballs in debt and probably have a housenote they cant afford but damnit.. that’s the Macaluso way.

Debbie is better, but I swore she was on the edge of a nervous breakdown to see her in Marshall’s back yard wearing a huge respirator and taking digital pictures of each of her 12,000
photos that were damaged:

*Sniff* do you see this? I haven’t seen this picture *sniff* in 12 years… this right there.. *sniff* in the middle of the swirls of color and to the left of that big patch of toxic mold. *sniffle* that *sniff* is my best friend’s older *sniff* brother’s girlfriend’s collarbone. *SOB*

Julie comes home on Monday!

Family and Friend’s Whereabouts

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Please feel free to use the comments function to update your information here. Don’t put address or phone numbers here. Send them to me and I’ll keep track of them the best I can. Email me for more info.

T = I have a land line for them.

Julie is in Baton Rouge with a bunch of friends at a hotel. (7 humans, 2 cats and a dog in one hotel room!) She’s flying out to Virginia to stay with some friends. T

Jason, his dad, his grandfather, his two dogs and two cats stayed for the storm… they’re on their way out the city, but I’m not sure where to.
update 9/3 Jason et.al are “in Memphis going from hotel room to hotel room. We’ll have a permanent suite on Monday. Permanent. God, that sounds depressing. :P How about temporarily permanent? “

My brother Michael, as of Monday night, was in a hotel in N.O. near the airport that the airline is paying for, but they have no water or power.
update 9/1 Michael is going to Charlotte N.C. for work.

My sister and her husband are going to stay with his family in New Jersey with their dog.
update 9/1 Kay, Johnny and pooch are in New Jersey. T

J A S O N is in a “smoke filled double-wide outside Alexandria”

Stacey and John(?) are staying with parental units in Birmingham, AL. Maybe we can hook up? I love Marshall and Carlos, but it’d be nice to see someone else! :)

Gilya is in Houston, but is moving somewhere else soon. T (hotel number)

I don’t know where David (Brown) is, but I got a text message back from him, so I know he’s alright.
update 9/1 Dennis Lauscha has confirmed via txt message to Marshall that David is OK

Brian (Asbury) went to Indiana to see his parents, doesn’t know when (or even if) he’s coming back. T

Kiki and Mags are ok, but I don’t remember where they are. (sorry!)
update 9/1 Kiki is in Marksville, with her sister. Mags is in Louisville, KY with her gf.

Mark (Grapes) and his kitty are in Baton Rouge with friends.

Gina is in Port Sulfur with Family. T

Debbie and Lloyd are in Baton Rouge with thier cats.

I got texted from Dan, it seemed like he was in the Hotel. I hope he managed to get out.
update 9/1 Dan msged me that he is going to Birmingham or Houston for work.
update 9/3 Dan is going to Birmingham.
Kasey is In Nacotoches with friends (?)

Christopher (Kent) is in Texas with friends.

Mary, Earl and Marc were staying with kay and Johnny in Mississippi but are going somewhere else.
update 9/1 Mary et all were supposedly going to a Redcross Shelter

Jeffery was in Baton Rouge on Sunday and Illinois last night. Guess he’s making his way to Chicago? T
update 9/1 Jeff is still in rural Illinois. “Will stay [there] for home base”

update 9/ 1 Myke Yest is in Florida with his mom.

update 9/1 I heard from Rachelle. She didn’t say where she was.

update 9/1 Patrick Thompson sent me this: “Pallie and I are in Spring Branch, Texas with some friends. We’ve got my mother-in-law, her dog and two cats, and our two cats.” T

update 9/1 Michael Hernandez is in Lafayette. T

I’m not sure what happened to my grandmother… her nursing home was “dry” as of Monday night, but without water I assume they had to evacuate. My mom hasn’t been able to get in touch with them since then.

update 9/1 Brandon is in Jackson, LA.

We’re too stupid for Toyota

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I’m sure a lot of people would be upset about this article: Toyota deciding to open new plants in Canada, because americans are stupid. The truth is, the US is so concerned about keeping and creating oppressive laws on the books to protect it’s religious protected ignorance that we’re slowly becoming a nation of people dependant on the very government that once let us to independence. Disgusting, really.

“The level of the workforce in general is so high that the training program you need for people, even for people who have not worked in a Toyota plant before, is minimal compared to what you have to go through in the southeastern United States…”

That’s us, folks.

He said Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and Alabama due to an untrained – and often illiterate – workforce. In Alabama, trainers had to use “pictorials” to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment.

Didn’t MS schools beat ours, the last time around?

Supreme Court Strikes Down Gay Sex Ban

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court struck down a ban on gay sex Thursday, ruling that the law was an unconstitutional violation of privacy.

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Of the 13 states with sodomy laws, four ? Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri ? prohibit oral and anal sex between same-sex couples. The other nine ban consensual sodomy for everyone: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.

Thursday’s ruling apparently invalidates those laws as well.

We’re legal!

Now we just need the Powers That Be to acknowledge it. Massive rallying and celebrations going on at a queer bar near you.
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