Green Float

A green float in the parade at the Shreveport Mardi Gras which went right past the Home For Wayward Veterans in the Highland area.

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Snack Time At The Homeless Shelter

Our main cook here at the Home For Wayward Veterans, Chef Mike, REALLY knows how to set a scrumptious snack table!

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Where The WiFi Is Free And The Signal Strong

They shut down our WiFi service here at The Home For Wayward Veterans so now I'm preparing to leave. Why did they shut off my internet access? Rumor is they CLAIM too many guys are accessing porn on it but only 5 or 6 of us have our own laptops so now NOBODY here can do job searches or apply for jobs online or check email. Smooth move, HOWV. So maybe I'll go to Vancouver, B.C. Maybe NOLA. The Hotel California comes to mind. I need to go somewhere where the WiFi is free and the signal strong.



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Shriners and Shadows

More video of the Shreveport Mardi Gras parade that went by our Home For Wayward Veterans place in the Highland area. Here came the old men in little go cart-sized cars, a staple of any civic parade.

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Mattress Bites Old Navy Homeless Man

My roommate Pat The Old Navy Guy jumps out of his bed yelling "Something bit me!" Turns out it was the worn out shelter mattress itself that bit him. So I took the pictures. 

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My Chef Won't Let Me Lose Any Weight

Snapshots from The Home For Wayward Veterans: Chef Mike, head chef here at the Veterans Home, does his culinary magic. The other cook, Marie, is no slouch herself. Between the two of them, I'll never be able to lose any weight as long as I stay here at the Home For Wayward Veterans! 

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The Interstate 20 Centaur

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Redacted

To select or adapt (as by obscuring or removing sensitive information) for publication or release; broadly: edit
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Devils And Retards And The Town Crier

Snapshots From The Home For Wayward Veterans: Larry takes it upon himself to help out with the dishes here at the Home For Wayward Veterans. When I first met Larry, he used to storm up and down the Home hallways like the town crier yelling, "We got demons in here! Devils and retards! T...oilet seat pissers and shitwalkers and nasty nasty nasties! Demons, I tell ya!" He's mellowed out since then. Now he doesn't let the devils and retards, seat pissers and shitwalkers bother him much. 

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The Queen Of Sun Roofs

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Our Cajun Elvis

One of the surprisingly few Cajun veterans here at the Home, we call him Elvis because he likes to dress up in loud costumes and sing loud in the hallways. 

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Floats, Beads and the Krewe of Elders: 2012

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When The Saints Came Marching By

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Hep Me

A call for "hep" from the Home For Wayward Veterans in Shreveport: Facebook wants me to use an Intel Mac to do stuff on their site. 

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Marching Band Of The Dead

A marching band of the dead marched past the Home For Wayward Veterans recently during pre Mardi Gras parading in the Highland district of Shreveport. 

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A Big Boy Horns In On The Parade

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A Baby Firetruck Hater At The Highland Mardi Gras Parade

The little girl in the pickup truck is either really really really into Mardi Gras parades or she hates firetrucks.

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Smoke Break

Snapshots From The Home For Wayward Veterans: Smoke break for 2 veterans and a staff person. One of them was subsequently kicked out of the program for getting high on potpourri.

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Snapshots From The Home For Wayward Veterans

Snapshots From The Home For Wayward Veterans: This one subtitled "My fecund imagination has me the hero in many new adventures."
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A Crowd Gathers Near The Home For Wayward Veterans

Today, Sunday, February 19, 2012, a crowd gathers a block south of my residence at the Home For Wayward Veterans in Shreveport.

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