About Me

How's your life?

Oh hi! My name's Jay and this is is my place. It isn't reverent or always fun, serious or even up to date; it's just my little space on the web where I may or may not spew information, news, opinion or, like it says on the masthead, pointless bitchery; sometimes even bitchery with a point, depends on the day.

I'm not single, not anymore; I suppose that makes me happy and content if not always blissful, though I am most of the time. I have a pug and love him also, all curl-tailed, incessantly shedding, paper shredding four legs of him. I live in Manhattan and grew-up in both south Mississippi and south Louisiana, not far outside New Orleans in the steamy, sultry Deep South. Laissez les bon temps rouler!

Typically by day, I'm a corporate project manager but that's boring stuff. I promise not to bore you with work details. Not often anyway.

In a distant life I was a journalist, picking up a few awards and accolades for such intriguing topics as Chinese crawfish dumping on the U.S. market and nursing home regulatory violations. I'm telling you about the awards and accolades in part because saying I'm an award-winning journalist is the most impressive thing I'll ever be able to tell anyone without my left eye twitching from lie telling. Some days I'm creative, sardonic and enlightening, bust most days I'm just me; trying too hard or not hard enough at everything and anything I do.

I attended LSU, University of Missouri and Tulane, barely escaping a stint at Liberty University, Jerry Falwell's fundie college. I lean conservative on lots of things, more liberal on others and can be outright radical on some issues. I like to think of myself as a recovering Republican but I hate blaming just one party.

I started this site because, you know, there aren't quite enough blogs out there spewing narcissistic drooling from those of us who can't help ourselves. I'm sorry. I really am. Anyway, I have my own now and I'm awful glad you're reading it.

I love fried chicken, Mexican food, tequila, the New Orleans Saints, the Boston Red Sox, weekend road trips, love notes, Winston the pug, Doogie, my mom's buttermilk pie, my Cannondale, Spinning, James Franco, the sunshine and anything outside, especially while getting my hands dirty.

I hate double standards, peas, rainy days, spiders, Oprah and people who don't use the turn signal. I could go on but I'll save it for the content. Keep reading and let me know what you think, aside from spelling errors.

-JN