Monday, August 25, 2003
It’s been a sad week in Hatchburg. Connie, one of the Burg’s oldest birds, passed. The service was on Saturday. All the members of Hatchburg’s Episcopal sent her off with their best rendition of On Eagle's Wings. Joey played the organ, and there were many moist feathers as Thelma led them in Auld Lang Syne.
Silky's Boutique had a trunk show on Friday night. Silky herself was there. She served del Fabros and Chef Garcia Corn Chips while the chicks checked out the new evening wear for fall. Deirdre and GG got into it over a Lorain Croft black silk Asian-style pants outfit. They both wanted it for the Botoff/Bellezza wedding on the 31st. Deirdre screeched “Don’t Even Think About It!” and that was the end of it. (After all, as she says, she is the fashion editor of the Hatchburg Times.) GG bit her tongue and made a note to re read Chapter 9 (Self-Created Suffering) in The Dalai Lama’s The Art of Happiness.
Ruby organized a straw roots campaign for Howard Dean. Rosie will donate $5.00 for every piece of del Fabro Carrot Cake sold at the Roasted Corn from now until the Democratic Convention. Hattie will donate 50% of all pedicure sales at Toe The Line Nails, and every Sunday Thelma will raise “Donuts for Dean.” She plans to fill them with crème pâtissière as part of her private “Cream Bush” campaign.
Don and Phil had an open house and showed Bowling For Columbine. Rosie supplied the popcorn and when the party was over, Don’s new chair had a few butter stains. Phil draped a throw over the stains; he didn’t want to compromise Don’s progress in Juliet’s “Anger Management: Now or Stew Forever” workshop.
Saturday night, to celebrate del Fabro’s birthday, (a legal holiday in Hatchburg), Joey reserved a table for 6 at Lacroix in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square. Lacroix was in France but who knew? The food was to die for and both Phil and Don talked about James (their server) all the way home. Rosie couldn’t decide what she liked more: James, or the chocolate soufflé.
Sunday morning, Eloise noticed two pink wicker rocking chairs on the the front porch of 22 Bearnaise Place.
Silky's Boutique had a trunk show on Friday night. Silky herself was there. She served del Fabros and Chef Garcia Corn Chips while the chicks checked out the new evening wear for fall. Deirdre and GG got into it over a Lorain Croft black silk Asian-style pants outfit. They both wanted it for the Botoff/Bellezza wedding on the 31st. Deirdre screeched “Don’t Even Think About It!” and that was the end of it. (After all, as she says, she is the fashion editor of the Hatchburg Times.) GG bit her tongue and made a note to re read Chapter 9 (Self-Created Suffering) in The Dalai Lama’s The Art of Happiness.
Ruby organized a straw roots campaign for Howard Dean. Rosie will donate $5.00 for every piece of del Fabro Carrot Cake sold at the Roasted Corn from now until the Democratic Convention. Hattie will donate 50% of all pedicure sales at Toe The Line Nails, and every Sunday Thelma will raise “Donuts for Dean.” She plans to fill them with crème pâtissière as part of her private “Cream Bush” campaign.
Don and Phil had an open house and showed Bowling For Columbine. Rosie supplied the popcorn and when the party was over, Don’s new chair had a few butter stains. Phil draped a throw over the stains; he didn’t want to compromise Don’s progress in Juliet’s “Anger Management: Now or Stew Forever” workshop.
Saturday night, to celebrate del Fabro’s birthday, (a legal holiday in Hatchburg), Joey reserved a table for 6 at Lacroix in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square. Lacroix was in France but who knew? The food was to die for and both Phil and Don talked about James (their server) all the way home. Rosie couldn’t decide what she liked more: James, or the chocolate soufflé.
Sunday morning, Eloise noticed two pink wicker rocking chairs on the the front porch of 22 Bearnaise Place.
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Thursday morning Joey took New Jersey Transit to New York City. He planned to come back on the 5:21, but he never made it. He spent the night with some decent dogs who set up shelter in Madison Square Park. Luckily he had a late lunch (Eggs Benedict), and just nibbled on bread crusts and peanuts for dinner. He got the phone number of a yellow Labrador who loves Western omelettes. He might invite her to the Roasted Corn.
Ernestine is booked for Labor Day weekend. Come September 2nd she is flying to Rome for two weeks. She has reservations at Cesarina and Costanza. Just thinking about Roman ravioli stuffed with artichokes makes her want to go on roostermatch.com to find a travel companion.
Miss Higgs’s straw poll results are in: 96% for gay marriage and 4% against. She is proud to live in Hatchburg where you can nest with the best and the rest. She vows to find out who the 4% are.
Deirdre voted yes to gay marriage. She knows someone who voted no. She ordered a doubleface cashmere coat in orange from Saks, but when she gets compliments on it, she will say she bought it at Target.
Juliet is no longer taking new clients. Since the blackout she’s been working overtime. She mailed a letter to Philip Seymour Hoffman and signed it “Fricassee in Hatchville.” He’ll never find her. During the blackout she reread Franny and Zooey. She finds Mrs. Glass annoying.
Work has been slow at Toe the Line Nails. Reba bought ten copies of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken and gave one to Joey, Ernestine and Eloise. She's saving the rest for the big tippers at Toe the Line Nails.
Phil signed up for Juliet’s “Anger Management: Now or Stew Forever.” He wants to resolve his rage towards Joey and all egg-eaters.
Everyone at the Roasted Corn had a good laugh when Ruby read from an e-mail a friend had sent her: “POWER OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB IN WHITE HOUSE .” --- THE TALE OF THE BRITS WHO SWIPED 800 JOBS FROM NEW YORK, CARTED OFF $90 MILLION, THEN TONIGHT, TURNED OFF OUR LIGHTS by Greg Palast.
Someone mowed the lawn at 22 Bearnaise Place.
Ernestine is booked for Labor Day weekend. Come September 2nd she is flying to Rome for two weeks. She has reservations at Cesarina and Costanza. Just thinking about Roman ravioli stuffed with artichokes makes her want to go on roostermatch.com to find a travel companion.
Miss Higgs’s straw poll results are in: 96% for gay marriage and 4% against. She is proud to live in Hatchburg where you can nest with the best and the rest. She vows to find out who the 4% are.
Deirdre voted yes to gay marriage. She knows someone who voted no. She ordered a doubleface cashmere coat in orange from Saks, but when she gets compliments on it, she will say she bought it at Target.
Juliet is no longer taking new clients. Since the blackout she’s been working overtime. She mailed a letter to Philip Seymour Hoffman and signed it “Fricassee in Hatchville.” He’ll never find her. During the blackout she reread Franny and Zooey. She finds Mrs. Glass annoying.
Work has been slow at Toe the Line Nails. Reba bought ten copies of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken and gave one to Joey, Ernestine and Eloise. She's saving the rest for the big tippers at Toe the Line Nails.
Phil signed up for Juliet’s “Anger Management: Now or Stew Forever.” He wants to resolve his rage towards Joey and all egg-eaters.
Everyone at the Roasted Corn had a good laugh when Ruby read from an e-mail a friend had sent her: “POWER OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB IN WHITE HOUSE .” --- THE TALE OF THE BRITS WHO SWIPED 800 JOBS FROM NEW YORK, CARTED OFF $90 MILLION, THEN TONIGHT, TURNED OFF OUR LIGHTS by Greg Palast.
Someone mowed the lawn at 22 Bearnaise Place.
Monday, August 11, 2003
Don spent the weekend mowing his lawn and weeding his garden. It looks like the groundhogs got his Italian string beans. He’s working on a new song celebrating green caterpillars. Sunday night he ate dinner on his front porch and started reading Drown by Junot Diaz.
Eloise stayed in this weekend. She folded laundry and reorganized her closets. She ate a pint of Halo Pub coffee chip while looking through old issues of “Martha Stewart Living.”
Ernestine had one too many del Fabro’s Saturday night but she just couldn’t help herself. Recipe: Put 6 frozen cubes of pink grapefruit juice in a large wine glass, add one shot (or a jigger like Ernestine does) of gin, fill glass with tonic and garnish with a lime wedge.
Glamour Girl turned up her AC and settled in under a new Paradigm duvet cover she bought at Restoration Hardware. She’s reading The Italian Baker by Carol Field. GG is thinking about having a dinner party at the end of August.
Hattie is brooding over the heat in Iraq and how the troops are suffering. She talked to Bernie about it but he wasn’t sufficiently empathetic. He pecked her in an inappropriate place and she thinks she should tell him it’s over.
Joey showed up at Tetrazzini’s and Phil stopped playing in the middle of “Wake Up Little Chickie.” Joey left without paying his tab and made his way to the Roasted Corn. He ordered two eggs over easy.
Reba’s back is out. She worked a 60-hour week doing pedicures. It rained every day for the past seven days, and she’s seen lots of nail fungus this week. She’s thinking of starting therapy but no one on her PPO list is taking new clients.
Ruby worked overtime all week . She leaves on Thursday to visit her mother in Maiseton.
Thelma took Louise out for a Calzone but they had to take half of their food home. Thelma felt gastrointestinal rumblings and thought it best to exit. She didn’t tell Thelma that she had eaten an entire Pavlova at the Eagle. Louise never mentioned that she noticed whipped cream stains on Thelma’s breast.
Queenie spent Saturday night singing Karaoke with friends. Phil sang Creep by Radiohead and she felt her gizzard move involuntarily.
The blinds are up at 22 Bearnaise Place but no one knows who moved in.
Eloise stayed in this weekend. She folded laundry and reorganized her closets. She ate a pint of Halo Pub coffee chip while looking through old issues of “Martha Stewart Living.”
Ernestine had one too many del Fabro’s Saturday night but she just couldn’t help herself. Recipe: Put 6 frozen cubes of pink grapefruit juice in a large wine glass, add one shot (or a jigger like Ernestine does) of gin, fill glass with tonic and garnish with a lime wedge.
Glamour Girl turned up her AC and settled in under a new Paradigm duvet cover she bought at Restoration Hardware. She’s reading The Italian Baker by Carol Field. GG is thinking about having a dinner party at the end of August.
Hattie is brooding over the heat in Iraq and how the troops are suffering. She talked to Bernie about it but he wasn’t sufficiently empathetic. He pecked her in an inappropriate place and she thinks she should tell him it’s over.
Joey showed up at Tetrazzini’s and Phil stopped playing in the middle of “Wake Up Little Chickie.” Joey left without paying his tab and made his way to the Roasted Corn. He ordered two eggs over easy.
Reba’s back is out. She worked a 60-hour week doing pedicures. It rained every day for the past seven days, and she’s seen lots of nail fungus this week. She’s thinking of starting therapy but no one on her PPO list is taking new clients.
Ruby worked overtime all week . She leaves on Thursday to visit her mother in Maiseton.
Thelma took Louise out for a Calzone but they had to take half of their food home. Thelma felt gastrointestinal rumblings and thought it best to exit. She didn’t tell Thelma that she had eaten an entire Pavlova at the Eagle. Louise never mentioned that she noticed whipped cream stains on Thelma’s breast.
Queenie spent Saturday night singing Karaoke with friends. Phil sang Creep by Radiohead and she felt her gizzard move involuntarily.
The blinds are up at 22 Bearnaise Place but no one knows who moved in.
