Dirty Linen Night; Despite Carpetbagging the Show Goes On
Saturday Night, August 8th, is Dirty Linen Night on Royal Street, in the French Quarter.
For seven years, the same small group of promoters have put together this event, in which local galleries and shops open their doors to the general public for some extra hours (6pm – 9pm), do the meet & greet, offer wine & spirits and often snacks to the visiting throngs, local critics, lookie lous, and whoever else might show up. It was designed to be a bohemian version of uptown’s White Linen Night, and was staged on a separate weekend out of respect for that event.
This has always been a free event, frequently also sponsored by liquor companies, too, for the chance to display their name and products at this event, also for free. As far as Dirty Linen Night is concerned, it still is. I would encourage everyone to attend this wonderful event, see some art, meet like minded, creative or appreciative souls, catch a buzz, & enjoy a summer night in the French Quarter.
There is now a darker force looming in the background, however. A group calling itself  ’Vieux Carre Soiree’ has come on board, and is advertising a paid event, on the same day, at the same time,  and in the exact same location. Their plan is to encourage folks to dress up like pirates (enough, already!), sell wrist bands at ‘Information Booths’ and use these to sell booze on the streets that they’ve gotten donated for free, apparently.
It’s no further surprise that the guiding hand & mind behind this, Miss Antoinette Dealteriis, is also affiliated with PyrateCon, another carpetbagger event that claims charity donations and has been unable to produce any record of same, although it has been under litgation for years, accused of non-payment of workers and performers, fraud and even stealing the event & name, itself.
I am told by Dirty Linen Night founders that Miss Dealteriis was brought on board after volunteering to help promote the event, and once the regulars were busy elsewhere, launched her own Vieux Carre Soiree on the exact same night & location, even going so far as to attempt to get Glazer Liquor distributers, who usually sponsor DLN, to come on board. Apparently the plan was to collect money for the booze that Glazer usually donates for free. At this writing, I’ve been informed that Glazer has backed out of this debacle of greed.
Miss Dealteriis only comment on record is, “You don’t own the night.”
Neither do you, honey.
And we’re not gonna pay you for it.
Besides the obvious slimey methods attached, turning an Art Appreciation event into another pirate & wench costumed Bourbon Street style drunken blitz is hardly what this city needs. In fact, it seems to be only aimed at adding to PyrateCon’s California Carpetbagger Presence, designed to bleed New Orleans for whatever it can before the pirate craze loses wind in it’s sails. Uh…too late guys.Â
Why would anyone support this event? (Vieux Carre’ Soiree’)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101197653667&ref=nf
Besides being an obvious Cashing-In on many years of someone else’s hard work, it lists itself in it’s Face Book bio as a non-profit charity, for which no listing exists. If anyone can find a 501(3)c listing for them, I’d love to see it.
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In short, here’s the message, for what it is worth:
SUPPORT DIRTY LINEN NIGHT AS AN ART EVENT.
DO NOT PAY THESE PEOPLE FOR THE RIGHT TO ATTEND A FREE GALLERY NIGHT.
I hope to see you there.
Lord David
Skull Club
New Orleans
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thank you for this vital information that i will send to my clients and friends that i have already invited to DLN in hopes they will know NOT to support the vieux carre/pirate soiree’ thing-a-mabob. what were they thinking? carpetbaggers for sure! thanks lord david and thanks to you tracy for starting dirty linen night and keeping it going strong for 8 years. see you all there! -levy easterly
Miss Tracey, Dirty Linen Night’s founder and a bad ass hat maker to boot, does indeed, rock.
Oh, yeah.
@LD, thanks for the insight…I was unaware of the link to “the Con” and the fact they had conned another under-informed and naive individual (does nobody READ anymore?)
It seems Miss D. is affiliated with an organization called “BORN”
http://www.betteropportunitiesrightnow.org/contact.html
As well as being President of Fleur de Lis Consulting (when was consulting ever non-profit?).
Have a look at THIS
http://netartworking.blogspot.com/2009/07/dirty-linen-no-more.html
Seems the slime do flow…
Wish we could be there to support ye in person, but we’ll fire off the cannons in salute! If ye see Amzie, tell him we said ahoy!
hey kids… i think i can make this… was confused by response postings on my facebook about this i will repost the DLN function over the soiree bit… in the mean time here’s my email and website, which has some of my art posted… don’t have a big enough body of work, yet, but tell me what you think? long live DLN!
cheers! (no aaaargh…)
nicholas
Ha!!! They thought we would jump ship!!! Guess we told them!!! Long live DLN and long live Queen Tracy!!!
Capt. Swallow;
I saw no information that linked Ms. Dealteriis to the BORN site. Maybe you can enlighten us as to how you came to this conclusion.
A link on one of her sites, perhaps?
As for the blog listing, the author seems as surpriesed by this turn of events as the rest of us. My sources, as I said in the original post, tell me that after speaking to Tracey, Glazer Distributers has pulled all support from Vieux Carre Soiree.
Finally, the PyrateCon connection goes back a ways. Andre allegedly asked several groups to help turn DLN in to a ‘pirate event’, meaniung he wanted top take it over and make it a paid event, keeping the money, I’m guessing.
It seems that Antoinette was the one who took the bait, being a local PyrateCon promoter already. I hope everybody remembers this outrageous level of sleaze and hateful carpetbagging of New Olreans traditions next time PyrateCon comes to town with it’s hand out, trying to sell us admission to our own city.
All this from San Diego ‘maintenence engineer’ (trashman), Andre.
(read: Asshole.)
I DID IT LEVY, JUST FOR YOU.
Right on – I’m looking forward to DLN!
Lord oh Lord, does this mean you are going to wear your dirty linens?
inquiring minds want to know. i want a full report.
xo
your buddy & pal,
the mighty termie ;-)
All my linens are dirty for you, Termite.
In a good way….
THIS JUST IN:
I’ve just come from meeting with a friend who owns a Royal St Gallery. She showed me a binder she recieved from Vieux Carre Soiree, which not only states, incorrectly, that it is the Official Replacement for DLN, but that gallery owners must fork over $135 each to be included.
This includes $60 each for booze that was to be provided FOR FREE from Glazer, who has now withdrawn all support from Vieux Carre Soiree, due to it’s underhanded tactics.
So far, I see:
FRAUD
PLAGERISM
BLACKMAIL
& EXTORTION
Can we please just run this Antoinette Dealteriis and her bogus Fluer di Lis Consulting out of town?
Who would ever hire this woman and her ‘consulting’ firm after seeing this debacle of greed and lies?
I mean, seriously? Would you trust her with YOUR business?
@LD – it WAS there…apparently the offending piece of the contact page was removed, perhaps to distance themselves from Miss deAleteriis?
Look at the Google cache http://tinyurl.com/kkqz5x
It’s a lot like the “con” site that changes as people bail…maybe there should be a new company CBORN (Carpet Baggers Out To Ripoff NOLA…thanks to QM Hellbound for this)
Just so there’s NO confusion…
NOLA Pyrate Week & The Pyrates Union only support and endorse the original and traditional Dirty Linen Night – just because someone is trying to cash in (read:ripoff) people by using a pirate theme, does not mean any Pyrates will endorse it – and neither should anyone else.
Everyone should band together and show up for DLN – and make sure NOBODY pays a dime to these criminals.
Support New Orleans Art & Culture!
I notice that BORN is a 501(3)c Non-Profit.
Perhaps it was this standing that Antoinette was tossing about in her wild resume fit. No wonder she got her name removed.
I remember people fleeing the room when DC Mayor, Marion Barry, convicted after being video taped smoking crack with a hooker, would step up for a photo opp.
I think BORN should change it’s tag line to:
“Shit! The bitch set me up!”
IT’S OFFICIAL:
“As of July 21, 2009, the Vieux Carre’ Soiree’ will postpone its original Saturday, August 8 event date.”
Press release, as of today.
pyratecon/vieux carre soiree? yes, I hope everyone remembers this when pyratecon/somalicon returns this spring. so tired of carpetbaggers… so tired.
You all don’t know jack about the truth and have been LIED TO. Have you been drinking the funny cool-aid???? First why would someone who has no rightful ownership go trademark an event name? Look up
http://www.nola.com/lagniappe/t-p/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/1155311703149850.xml&coll=1 Jeweler Linda Sampson from RHINO originally came up with the name-not Tracy Thomson. Do your homework and get your facts straight people. Next, White Linen night is being put on in Texas at which the event is making money for people from here. Last year after this event, Tracy Thomson rushed out to trademark the event name..Sounds like someone that has nothing to do with the event but owns a store in the FQ wants to make a little profit and bring the party elsewhere. Who’s greedy now.? Next Tracy is out of the country and was not handing over name rights for anyone to put this party on without paying her to use the name..But technically she doesn’t even have legal right to it according to TP, so why would anyone with any brain sign a non-exclusive contract with her and pay her to put on a party? Also DLN was never going to happen. With 6,000-10,0000 people roaming the street you need a thing called a street permit. You also need the support of a non-profit 501-3 in order to get the alcohol permit to serve spirits. None of this was applied for at all by anyone-the date was completely open, so VCS waited until the last day to apply for it. They wanted to make sure a party would happen on Royal St. As far as the wristband, obviously your gallery friend is too stupid to read the whole packet..I read mine. The band was a $5 DONATION since permits, security, port-o-lets, event insurance so that if a drunk person tripped in the gallery the gallery would be covered, website url’s, and business costs like creating the packet itself with paper, ink and a folder costs money. Events just don’t happen..there’s a lot of time and personal upfront costs that go into making an event a success and this group knows how to do it. Also the wristband would allow them to check ID and make sure everyone was 21 or older, detour any vagrants wandering through to steal merchandise, and they could sign up and give an email address at the info booth to which we all would have access to for mailers in order to register for a door prize. The group is completely non-profit and not one person was or ever would be paid. Any funds leftover was being donated straight to the arts…They wanted to give it to NOCCA or the Arts Council of NO. Next a 6-year old local child designed their logo because they wanted people to see the future of the arts here in NO. Also all costs to the gallery were cheaper than last year, and spirits stated wholesale costs from LOCAL companies not a distributor out of Texas. Also it was a local non-profit organization that came together for the benefit of local business to put this event on-not 1 individual that you’ve tried to slander to the depths of the earth. The group postponed their event after receiving a so-called press release stating that DLN is going on…Hope you got your permits because they pulled everything and there is no piggy backing on their event now. The people of VCS are highly respected in the business and social community, and they would never stoop so low as to your dirty viral poison you’ve spread. Because of your few..what 6 bitchy individuals that have no idea how to even put on a massive street event…Everyone will suffer, especially the Royal St. business owners. VCS cares way to much about others and their sponsors and strive to protect all in the best interest of everyone. Karma is a bitch and everyone’s true colors will show….especially yours. The truth will come out and then the media will have a field day with this.
Bravo for “ezraman”! Right on! Write on! It’s obvious he has some firsthand inside knowledge of what REALLY happened here and it’s about time someone brought that side of the story to the table. I wasn’t directly involved with planning and logistics of the now-postponed Vieux Carre Soiree event but I know some of the key people who were. And one in particular, who is mentioned by name (although spelled wrong) certainly doesn’t deserve all the venom and insults that have been piled on her these past few days. Antoinette De Alteriis is one of the nicest, sweetest, most hardworking people I know. She does more pro bono work for good causes than most people do for work that PAYS. That’s what she and others were doing here. There was a misunderstanding about whether or not Dirty Linen Night was going to be held, so Antoinette and others — with the initial support of potentially impacted French Quarter merchants — tried to make sure SOMETHING was going to happen. When they found out that Dirty Linen Night was, indeed, going to happen — even after doing all the grueling legwork in securing permits, etc. — they graciously bowed out — or at least TRIED to. However, others were not nearly so gracious, spreading lies, rumors and vile insults. Now that all this DIRTY LINEN(!) has been aired, one can only hope that irreparable damage hasn’t been done to what was otherwise a wonderful event that I and thousands of others enjoyed going to every year. It’s a shame that the good work that people try to do has to be subjected to so much unwarranted venom, especially coming from people who aren’t on the front line and in the know. Shame on all 14 of the first responders to the twisted commentary above for shooting at the wrong target.
Hey Ezraman, put your bitterness behind you, get on with your life. VCS is not hijacking the event any longer and they will live to produce whatever pirate event they want on any other day, except someone elses day! Dirty Linen Night has happened for 7 years on it’s own and built its own group of followers, this is how it happens in the New Orleans community! We live and work TOGETHER! Not against each other. Oh yeah BTW, the truth has come out and that’s why VCS is scrambling…..you can’t make a silk purse …….
I find it pathetic, that someone would try to STEAL an event that is already successful. Plain and Simple. If this “soiree” was ORIGINAL, they would’ve organized something on a date that NO ONE was already doing something. The Galleries on Royal were up in arms, when they were asked to pay out of pocket for something FREE.
Sorry, but “Vieux Carre Soiree” was an attempt to profit from someone elses hard work. The fact that the pirate thing was added to it? Also reeks of stealing ideas from last years DLN. Thats when the krewe of wenches VOLUNTEERED to help out.
Ezraman, if you want to be taken seriously allow me to give you a few pointers:
1) The TP article alone is hardly extensive documentation.
2) Anyone can say whatever they want. I fail to see any supporting links or documentation for many of your claims.
3) Please learn what a paragraph is, your rant was nigh impossible to read due to the lack of proper English, typos, etc.
I’m not in the city these days so I leave it to the other bloggers here on humidcity to address the various issues and claims you’ve made should they care to. In the meantime please keep in mind that if you want a retraction (and I make them in a high profile public way when warranted) you need to supply more than you have and you need to do it in a readable format.
@ Ezraman;
Perhaps you can help me sort through some confusion here;
This ‘Truth’ I don’t “know jack about”, seems to elude me still. I stated that “turning an Art Appreciation event into another pirate & wench costumed Bourbon Street style drunken blitz is hardly what this city needs.”
You go on to say that “With 6,000-10,0000 people roaming the street you need a thing called a street permit. You also need the support of a non-profit 501-3 in order to get the alcohol permit to serve spirits. …They wanted to make sure a party would happen on Royal St…. Events just don’t happen..there’s a lot of time and personal upfront costs that go into making an event a success and this group knows how to do it. Also the wristband would allow them to check ID and make sure everyone was 21 or older, detour any vagrants wandering through to steal merchandise.”
I don’t see any difference at all.
In fact, you’ve described pretty much exactly the hellish nightmare of a drunken street blitz that DLN seemed to be trying to avoid. This event has gone on for 7 years, based on the idea that individual galleries could open or close as they saw fit, serve whatever they served, and draw attention to the art that they sell. And it works.
Your Times-picayune link proves this to be true.
It does not, however, prove that Tracey Thompson stole anything, misrepresented anything, or used anyone esle’s work. Like VCS obviously has.
In fact, Tracet told me, herself, that she finally trademarked the name to protect DLN from this very kind of carpetbagging buffoonery. And, yes, trademarking DOES give her ownership of the name, another error in your rant. You claim that the TP article proves otherwise, but you must be reading something I never saw in print.
It reads like a group of people came up with a grass roots idea and persued it, ending up here. I have not heard any of those others complain over the last 7 years.
From a strictly personal point of view, I go this every year and see familiar faces, gallery owners I know & respect, and a lot of art work I would otherwise not experience. It’s a lovely and unique night.
Were I to find 10,000 people crammed on to five or six blocks of Royal street, talking in ‘pirate’ gibberish, have to wait in line to buy wristbands (instead of hobnobbing with the gallery people over some chilled wine), throngs of underagers trying to get wasted (hence the wristbands, right?), “vagrants wandering through to steal merchandise” and little or no chance to comfortably digest any serious art work, well, I’d think I’d stay home and wait to see which galleries got trashed, who shot off a gun, how many people got arrested, and which people are pointing fingers trying to guess where the money went.
But then you say that “This Group really knows how to put on an event.”
Which group is that Erza?
You call them “this group” 3 times and never mention their name.
The Young Professionals statement says they were misled.
Glazer has pulled out.
Doug MacCash, who worte the article you reference, has been a supporter of DLN for years.
And Antoinette Dealteriis’s name has been removed from the BORN webpage.
Maybe the art community knows a thing or two about art and how to sell it. And maybe all of those other members of “this group” realize they were misled. Intentionally so.
Finally, you stated that “White Linen night is being put on in Texas at which the event is making money for people from here.” What the hell does that have to do with anything?
And then there’s “…DLN was never going to happen.”
Bullshit.
Dirty Linen Night is a very anticipated and cherished event. Hard core believers put on the Southern Decadence Parade the Labor Day after Katrina with barely over a dozen marchers. This is New Olreans and we don’t fucking give up on our friends, dude. Period.
In fact, Tracey HIRED “this group”, meaning Antoinette, to MAKE SURE it happened while she was out of the country. Anoinette insisted on a five year contract, refused to license the name and deliberately tried to hijack the event, plain & simple.
I’m sure you’re upset, Ezra. I don’t know about what, maybe your friends in ‘this group’ promised you something you’re not going to get now. As far as keeping facts straight and telling the truth, I think I hit the mark dead on.
If you’ve any actual information, rather than ranting, opinion or reference to articles that don’t back up your claims, I’d love to see it.
In the mean time, I stick to my guns.
10,000 drunks on Royal Street, puking and pissing all over an art appreciation night, complete with underage drinking and thieving wandering vagrants is a picture I’d rather do without.
You can keep that shit.
Dirty Linen Night will go on just fine.
PS; Hats off to the Krewe of Wenches for thier voluntary support of DLN, past and future.
My references to ‘Pirate Gibberish’ are directed at a particular group of n’er-do-wells I won’t bother to name here, certainly not them.
The Wenches have done a lot of good for these city, DLN not withstanding. Thnaks, Ladies. You rock.
Wow. Thanks for all the wonderful support for Dirty Linen Night!
It is great to know how many people cherish the original idea and will continue to support the local galleries and shops. Hats off to all who love the event and will go to lengths to make sure that the mission of DLN is respected! Despite the setbacks, a multitude of wonderful people have stepped up to make sure the event will go on, as it has for the past 8 years. That’s staying power!
We don’t know who Ezradude is, other than an extremely angry person who fell victim to someone else’s delusions. I wish you health and happiness Ezra, and I forgive you for the unkind and untrue accusations you have made. Now let’s move on.
It all came out in the wash. Dirty Linen Night will go on, as it was planned from the beginning, by and for the artists. We’ll move forward, with a positive attitude, a cheerful demeanor, and hope everyone else can do the same. Peace, y’all!
At the request of the author of this thread, I would like to respond.
Damage control from 5,000 miles away is challenging, but here goes:
To Ezraman: I don’t think you were around for the first 4 years of Dirty Linen Night. The concept and name of the event was brainstormed at a marketing committee meeting in my studio, as a fun and lighthearted way to get visitors to the gallery in the dead of summer (at that time, RHINO and I both had galleries on Royal Street). Anyone who knows me from back then and for the following 3 years knows that I organized and nurtured Dirty Linen Night, did all the publicity, invested my own money to make sure it happened, went door to door to the shops and galleries along Royal Street to encourage them to join in and to donate a small amount to cover cost of fliers and signs. At that time, when it was still a baby, there was no need to close the street; it had not grown to the success it is today. The Times-Picayune and many other publications always managed to publish a blurb or listing to help promote the event, and I’m ever grateful to them.
From the second year forth, thanks to the invitation of Frederick Guess, we had the backing and support of Glazer Companies of Louisiana. We thank them for being loyal and generous sponsors for all of these years, with their hefty donations of beverages and marketing.
Soon the event caught on, became popular, and needed the guidance of more professional event planners. Several wonderful and dedicated people have volunteered their time, effort and expertise over the years in assuring this event would continue to grow.
I DID trademark the name ‘Dirty Linen Night’ to protect it from being taken and turned into something other than what it was; a night of gallery openings, dedicated to the hard working artists and shopkeepers of my beloved Royal Street. I never did intend to, nor will I ever wish to make money from this move; I never did ask for money other than a small pittance which is only a tiny fraction of the trademark fee. (to clarify, I have still not received any money from anyone, and instead, I am donating the trademarked name to the Artists of Royal Street.)
I’ve always considered Dirty Linen Night to be my baby, and have been seeking suitable adoptive parents to take it and make it into what I am not capable of doing myself, and to continue to make it thrive. Every year since the first, I’ve met with and given my blessing to the various volunteers who have helped present it. This is exactly what I did this year when I handed the reigns, in good faith, to someone who then ran in another direction.
Metaphorically speaking, I felt as my child (pet?) was kidnapped by the babysitter, given another name and made to do different tricks. I was not going to sit by and let that happen, so I fought to save this wonderful event that I had nurtured for so long. Luckily, I discovered that there are many people dedicated and loyal to Dirty Linen Night who made the job easy, even from this distance. I thank you all.
Thanks for listening, and may Dirty Linen Night live for a long time.
I hope it is a great one this year; wish I could be there, but I will be in London that night. I look forward to hearing what a success the 8th Annual Dirty Linen Night is sure to be, in the capable hands of those who love and respect it.
Thank you Tracy for such a positive note to all! We do support the artist on Royal Street and we love you for keeping this vision alive!
Tracy, thanks for chiming in. It’s always nice to have the people involved in or impacted by a story that one of our bloggers covers add their perspective on the situation.
Thanks!
Carpetbaggers be damned! Disaster Profiteers be gone! Out Out damned spots! I say all the real pirates dress as they normally would and pillage the places offering a “Soiree”. No parley and no quarter given!
Oh, and as per the Facebook listing, it now reads as follows:
“Event Canceled
This Event is no longer available because it has been canceled.”
Well done, Lord David! Now to run these carpet-baggers out of town! Because our culture and the spirit of our city isn’t for sale…and to those who think it is, the Royalty of the Night will prove you otherwise by morning time…everytime.
See y’all at Dirty Linen Night where we can support the arts in true form.
@REX;
Thanks for your support. My interest in this is to see The Arts, galleries and artists included, retain their front seat, this one night a year. Enough with the theme parties and drunken street gatherings, already. E Channel be damned.
As for your statement that we should or can “run these carpet-baggers out of town! Because our culture and the spirit of our city isn’t for sale…”, I suggest you read M’s latest post, ‘Reinventing Conflict of Interest.’ ( http://humidcity.com/?p=2363 )
Some of the biggest carpet-baggers we have are locally grown, like Sean Cummings. And when it comes to culture & spirit being for sale, they are by products of the community at large. Sell the community, sell it’s soul.
I can hardly see this same poineer spirit and creative work ethic coming from a real estate investor, who’s BMW is parked in a private gated communtity, which prides itself on controlling ‘it’s own’ river front access.
We all screamed bloody murder when it looked like Haliburton was trying to turn the lower 9th in to a private golf course for trust funders.
Will it be any better when local rich kids do it from their million dollar condos in the New Improved Bywater?
They’re coming, kids.
And they’re entitled.
To EVERYTHING.
Just ask them…..
As DLN moves forward, champion that night.
It’s been hard earned, hard fought & well deserved.
And get ready to meet me across St Claude Avenue in about five years.
I won’t be able to afford the price of admission to my old neighborhood anymore….
Just a note on terminology: When they are locally grown they are scalawags, when imported they are carpetbaggers.
Thanks for your kind instruction, sir.
I accept your generational New Olreans wisdom here.
How about if I just say ‘asshole’?
@Loki – if ye actually read into the etymology of the word “scalawag”, despite it’s use as a derogatory term, it has roots that make it more likely to apply to those who truly work FOR and support New Orleans (and have historically) than those who merely work for and support their own purse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalawags
In fact, there are some equal saving graces to the original “carpetbaggers”, though the term has actually become more derogatory than less as implied by notes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger
(of course like any group with a name tag, there were corrupt persons)
@LD seems to have found an all encompassing term to suit most of the aforementioned folk…and it’s a lot shorter than “general pompous pain in the posterior”…sort of like “festering boil”…
@Capt JS: Thats lovely but no one uses it that way. You want venom, you should have been around to hear my grandmother’s tone when using either term.
The history of a word does not always dictate its common usage, using either in a non derogatory fashion simply will not be understood.
In New Orleans these words have been pejoratives since the Civil War.
@ JS;
I stand in the line behind Loki, here.
Besides being steeped in the New Orleans motif since long before his birth, his point just makes sense. If everybody I insulted stopped to look it up, it would be far less entertaining & dramatic, & I would probably not have so many loose teeth.
I also rely heavily on delivery, not available in these modern comminiques. I, too, had a grandmother who was practiced at the art of venom. While her Naplese Italian curses were like firey poetry from beyond hell, I remember her staring down a woman who had been sniping behind Grammy’s back.
A dark glare and the snapping thrust of a thumbnail, from front teeth towards the victim, left nothing but a pile of smoking whithered flesh, that turned to ash and blew away before we were out of sight.
I did my chores at that house without a word of complaint.
Bless you, Grams.
If you’re in Heaven, give God a turn, he’s earned it.
If you’re not, I assume they’ve finally learned what ‘fury’ means.
If you meet any carpetbaggers, scalawags or assholes there, may god have mercy on their souls.
@LD “Naplese Italian curses”…yikes…
Now there’s a lost art…so few folk can throw a good “curse” anymore – it’s too easy just to “swear”. (present company excepted…but then y’all got some talent).
Curses are so much more eloquent, entertaining and…well…fun in that twisting the knife in kind of humour.
“May you have only daughters – all of them ugly – and not a penny in dowry!”
“May you lose all your teeth but one – and that for a toothache!”
“May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!”
One of my all time favourite, vile curses (and seldom topped in the dis-gusto-meter):
“May you choke on the blood of your syphilitic vomit!”
Dude, all langauge aside, when an angry old Italian woman does that flick of the thumb nail off of her teeth at you, without a word, run.
Where do you think they get their pillars of salt?
[note to self: if you don't check HumidCity.com daily
you miss out.]