The strange reappearance of a whip-cracking cowboy from the silver screen leads to considerations on how life is measured in smaller and smaller increments of time from every electronic device.
A day trip to an interactive museum in a South Louisiana bayou offers our Sunday Comics columnist the chance to sample a different reality
As six heads of state try and dominate chance in a darkened room, our Sunday Comics columnist takes us on a journey through the gambling culture of New Orleans, introducing us to the characters who ultimately have a lesson or two for our leaders
A momentary blank when driving his own car leads our Sunday Comics author to remember a visit to London and the disorientation experienced routinely by transported bodies
Our Sunday Comics columnist on TV cook Paula Deen's racist comments, the true nature of Southern gentility, and the zombie hordes threatening to climb the walls
Our Sunday Comics columnist reflects on the various origins of poor boys
Struck by malevolent storms our Sunday Comics columnist finds the ardour and expense of repairs compounded by the coordinated revolt of machines
As our author - clad in detritus - prepares himself for tomorrow's Mardis Gras and the forecast of huge lightning storms, he remembers striking a blow against a less than divine intervention predicting the Carnival's demise.
The author takes us into the heart of a vivid and authentic-looking antebellum scene that may be coming to your screens soon
Trying to repair the damage inflicted on body and home, our author stumbles upon two survivors of Hurricane Isaac who don't seem to care for schedule.
After what should have been a trip to the vet turns into a trip to the doctor, Jim Gabour ponders a strange concatenation of human and feline ailments, and describes the succession of stray cats who have called his home their own.
In which our author feels good about being ancient and avoiding the municipal vultures making plunder out of public office
