does that make me crazy?

i remember when

i remember

i remember when i lost my mind

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danny's graduation party

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Yesterday we celebrated Danny's graduation from West Point. They cancelled the band due to the midday downpour, but that didn't stop the party. Lots of family and friends, food, music and games... Everyone had a good time.

As a gift, I gave Danny a DVD loaded with photos from our visit to West Point as well as shots I took at some of his track meets. He really liked it. Here is the label I made for the disc.

More party pics here!

waiting for superman

i asked you a question
i didn't need you to reply
is it getting heavy?
but then i realized
is it getting heavy?
well I thought it was already as heavy as can be

tell everybody
waiting for superman
that they should try to hold on
best they can
he hasn't dropped them
forgot them
or anything
it's just too heavy for superman to lift

laffy taffy

what does a chicken and a band have in common?

they both have drum sticks.

you think that I wanna run and hide
i'll keep it all locked up inside
i just want you to find me
i'm not lost, i'm not lost
just undiscovered

my boss is a little bent, but who isn't?

Yeah, I took the Is your boss a crazy boss? quiz... Evidently, I answered incorrectly on more than a few items. Here are my results:

Your boss' crazy factor:
34 out of 100 points

0-20: You're a lucky duck. You're probably working for either Warren or Jimmy Buffett.
21-45: You're still okay. The boss is a little bent, but who isn't?
46-64: Uh-oh.
65-100: There are many drugs that can help improve this situation. For you, I mean. Nothing is going to help this boss.

it wears me out

if I could be who you wanted
all the time

patio room update

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The floors are finished. I think they basically just stained the concrete... Check it out.

confidence isn't something that you get. it's something that you are.

all these poses of classical torture
ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard

I <3 NY pics

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Originally uploaded by cæsar

Just finished uploading photos from the New York trip! Until further notice, I'm thinking it's probably all I will post online from this event, since I should now dedicate more time towards putting together some photo discs as a graduation gift for my nephew and his dad run on sentence. In the meantime, this set serves to provide a nice cross section of our activity during our stay in Manhattan as well as our visit to West Point, and it includes some proud classic family moments. Enjoy!

#9 dream

so long ago..
was it in a dream -- was it just a dream?
i know, yes i know
it seemed so very real
it seemed so real to me

dream, dream away
magic in the air -- was magic in the air?
i believe, yes i believe
more i cannot say
so what more can i say?

the latest in digital scrapbooking

Trying out scrapblog... (Lame?)
Still, check out my first and probably last scrapblog creation.

miss daisy

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in all her splendor

under construction

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Mom's patio room is almost complete. Check it out.

won't you walk me through the Tiergarten?
won't you walk me through it all, darling...

a part of us remains wherever we have been

one good thing 'bout music...

when it hits you, you feel no pain
so hit me with music, hit me with music now

et moi, j'aime paris aussi

Aujourd'hui on a vu le film Paris, je t'aime. C'était super! Mais je ne suis pas tombé amoureux 18 fois, comme l'affiche dit. C'est la vie...

there's gotta be more here than what I see

are those the clouds of my mind that hide the stars?
will I ever find the road that leads me home again?
does it seem so far from looking way too hard
now I know my heart is where my searching all begins

as seen on oprah

I took the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and tried to answer as quickly and automatically as possible. Here are my results:

Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for African American compared to European American.

Wow, I didn't realize I would learn so much about myself when I started to blog. I guess it's official now. Showing some slight automatic love for all my sistahs. Holla!

I wonder if the Nina Simone Live at Montreux 1976 on BETJZ blaring from the TV had any influence on my answers.

"A tout à l'heure!" -- N.S.

one of the funniest moments of our trip

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Originally uploaded by cæsar

...was after mom's one-of-a-kind designer ring purchase when I realized that she was wearing a $1.00 necklace she had bought the day before on the street near battery park. We had a good laugh when I wondered aloud if they thought that the jeweler had noticed.

you remain

what do you do with old regrets
there’s a box full underneath the bed
just close enough not to forget
but do what do you do with old regrets

night and day
you remain

ghetto of my mind

I still have that leopard-skin hat
that you gave me way back
before it was cool
and they took it to school

moi moi moi

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Went to the Femme Femme Femme exhibit yesterday...

With paintings by such artists as Renoir, Degas, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso, Femme, femme, femme celebrates the emergence of the modern woman as seen through art. This evolution of women's roles is presented through several themes beginning with timeless images of domestic life in the family circle from birth to death, progressing to the nineteenth-century phenomenon of women working outside the home and the emerging independence of the twentieth-century woman. This exhibition is the fulfillment of a promise made to New Orleans just two months after Hurricane Katrina as the French Minister of Culture and Communication, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, and President of the Louvre, Henri Loyrette, led a delegation of French diplomats and art curators on a visit to the city and the New Orleans Museum of Art. They renewed their solidarity with our beleaguered city and their desire to assist NOMA during this unprecedented time by organizing this exhibition of nearly one hundred works from the Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, and museums throughout France.

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