“The only thing that separated the Williams family from any of the other families departing from the docks of Marina Del Mar, in Madisonville, Louisiana, on Sunday, was
their willingness to bring aboard a journalist for the day.”
This was a strange note I had scribbled to myself while I sat in my car, waiting for the [...]
6-7-06
Douglas Brinkley:
So, today is inauguration day today for our buddy Ray Nagin. I wonder if you’ll be there in the audience at the Convention Center booing, or better yet, throwing Hieneken bottles at him. Somebody certainly should be. Or maybe one of those little kegs they make. I understand those things pack a pretty good [...]
The first stop Jason Chambers made after the results from his drug test came back clean was his dealer’s house in Manchester.
He shuffled, slightly nervous, as he rang the doorbell of the brownstone. There were two cars outside, including his dealer’s car, but the doorbell went unanswered for a good minute or two.
Captains log stardate…
Oh wait a minute, wrong channel. Obviously the coffee hasn’t fully kicked in yet. We’re talking Na No Wri Mo here, not Star Trek; which is probably a good thing in hindsight.
Ryan Hendrickson scanned the crowd in Piedmont’s cafeteria, searching for his sons, Roger and Ethan.
For a moment, Ryan felt a fleeting sense of vertigo, as he remembered every mess hall he’d ever visited.
He remembered when he was in the military, then the agency and, most recently, when he was at Guantanamo Bay; the sickly smell [...]
His nephew had barely exited when there was a slight knock at William Chambers’ office door.
Chambers, who had walked over to the windows behind his desk to watch orange, yellow and red leaves skitter across the grounds outside, turned to see who had dared to infringe upon him. In fact, he was set to bawl [...]
So I’m writing a book. I began the dry run of my October novel yesterday and eked out an 1,800-word chapter. This, if you’ll recall, is the book about “terror” or at least that was the initial germ that started the idea for this thing back about a year or two ago.
I decided to tackle the fridge today and….stranger things may have happened…but I’m not sure where or when. I cleaned out a lot of stuff from the fridge and freezer before we left for Gustav, potential smelly things…mostly veggies and meats….sealed others (with the potential of survival during short term power loss, like cheese) in [...]
If you’re a swimmer competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and your name isn’t Michael Phelps, you might as well be a lard-assed tadpole with no hope, much less chance of doing anything but tasting the agony of defeat.
Phelps made Olympic history last night by winning his tenth career (11th if you [...]
I stumbled across this the other day while cleaning out files, and given the fact that we’re a month into the 2008 hurricane season, it seems slightly fitting, in an ironic kind of way. I originally covered this event, the luncheon at the Governor’s mansion, in late spring of 2005; yes you guessed it only [...]
