Virgets Archives
The Cruelest Cut 05 31 05
By Ronnie Virgets
Dog Daze 05 03 05
Cats introduce a note of tranquility into any room they occupy for more than four minutes; a dog will remove that note in an even less time. Dogs live on the edge.
By Ronnie Virgets
Blue Notes 04 19 05
By Ronnie Virgets
For Every Model a Name 04 05 05
By Ronnie Virgets
The Eye of the Beholder 03 22 05
By Ronnie Virgets
The Dining Divide 02 22 05
By Ronnie Virgets
A Crazy Little Thing 02 08 05
What is your Walgreen-fetched card with the Valentine symbol next to stuff like this? Only writers are foolish enough to think there are right words.
By Ronnie Virgets
Things Left Behind 01 25 05
By Ronnie Virgets
Close to Home 01 11 05
By Ronnie Virgets
Mail-Order Madness 12 21 04
By Ronnie Virgets
Everyone's a Critic 12 07 04
By Ronnie Virgets
The Kite Flier 11 23 04
By Ronnie Virgets
Marshal Law 11 09 04
Like law enforcers at all times and all places, some were cynics and some were idealists.
By Ronnie Virgets
The Communion of Saints 10 26 04
Saints come in all sizes, shapes and surroundings.
By Ronnie Virgets
Preserving the Po-Boy 10 12 04
At this first-ever meeting of the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Society, there is brave talk of a Po-boy Parade next year and a Po-Boy Festival, too.
By Ronnie Virgets
Hurricane Hangover 09 28 04
By Ronnie Virgets
The Good Fight 09 21 04
The fascination is ancient, going deep into the vaults of single combat. When fists began to replace more lethal forms of weaponry, the creative writer was there to note the changes.
By Ronnie Virgets
The Least of These 09 14 04
By Ronnie Virgets
One May Smile, and Smile ... 08 24 04
By Ronnie Virgets
Mother's Day 08 10 04
By Ronnie Virgets
The Cat That Walked by Himself 07 27 04
By Ronnie Virgets
Day of Rest 07 13 04
By Ronnie Virgets
The Father of New Orleans 06 29 04
The judgment of history has been kind to John Law, but history can afford tolerance.
By Ronnie Virgets
My Good Name 06 15 04
By Ronnie Virgets
Not-So-Famous Last Words 06 08 04
By Ronnie Virgets
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia 06 01 04
None of us said a thing. We knew Marcia was serious. We had never heard her say so much without cursing before.
By Ronnie Virgets
Letter Perfect 05 25 04
"What cannot letters inspire? They have souls, they can speak." -- Heloise to Peter Abelard, 12th century A.D.
By Ronnie Virgets
Loyal Appositions 05 18 04
I like the idea that as soon as you assert one thing, its contradiction immediately asserts another thing.
By Ronnie Virgets
Finalities 05 04 04
By Ronnie Virgets
She Not Busy Being Born 04 20 04
By Ronnie Virgets
Heads or Tails 04 06 04
By Ronnie Virgets
The Time of the Horse 03 23 04
The gates fly open. For 5,000 years, history was made on horseback. This is a wee commemorative of all that.
By Ronnie Virgets
Eire Supply 03 16 04
A brief look at the outsized literary role of this undersized island in world culture yields names like Jonathan Swift, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats.
By Ronnie Virgets
March in New Orleans 03 09 04
By Ronnie Virgets
All on a Mardi Gras Day 03 02 04
By Ronnie Virgets
Valentine's Verses 02 10 04
By Ronnie Virgets
Mardi Gras Past 02 03 04
By Ronnie Virgets
You Are What You Eat 01 20 04
By Ronnie Virgets
The Battle of New Orleans 01 06 04
By Ronnie Virgets
Ghost of Christmas Past 12 23 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Saints and Sinners 12 09 03
By Ronnie Virgets
I Confess 11 25 03
Our method of confession was of the turducken variety, i.e. tucking a major sin within a sandwich of minor sins.
By Ronnie Virgets
Sounds Like Fun 11 11 03
By Ronnie Virgets
This Time of Year 10 28 03
By Ronnie Virgets
"The Shakespeare of Advertising" 10 14 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Saints Day 09 30 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Catching the Bus 09 09 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Happy Birthday, Huey 08 26 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Sweat the Debt 08 12 03
By Ronnie Virgets
The Honeymooners 07 22 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Bed Head 07 01 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Recollections About a Bully 06 17 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Taking Inventory 06 03 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Daytime Drinking 05 20 03
By Ronnie Virgets
The Case of the Canal Street Madam 05 06 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Checking In and Checking Out 04 22 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Every Dog Will Have His ... Birthday? 04 15 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Going for the Gold 03 25 03
By Ronnie Virgets
The Great Tradition of Ernie Pyle 03 11 03
By Ronnie Virgets
The Place He Was Made For 02 25 03
By Ronnie Virgets
In Memoriam 02 11 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Insert Headline Here 01 14 03
By Ronnie Virgets
Why the Butler Did It 12 03 02
By Ronnie Virgets
The Last Picture Show? 11 26 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Fish Lips 11 12 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Exit Laughing? 10 29 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Blessed Father 10 15 02
By Ronnie Virgets
The F-word 10 01 02
By Ronnie Virgets
The Boxer 09 17 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Short Stories 09 10 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Ode to the Mockingbird 08 27 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Bumper Cars 08 20 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Slumps 08 13 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Faces in the Crowd 07 30 02
By Ronnie Virgets
The List 07 16 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Washington Avenue 07 02 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Tiger By the Tale 06 11 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Beyond Forgetting 05 28 02
By Ronnie Virgets
A Sin by Any Other Name 05 07 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Treat It Gentle 04 16 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Phoning It In 04 09 02
By Ronnie Virgets
A Class By Itself 03 26 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Urning Potential 03 12 02
By Ronnie Virgets
The Verse That Could Happen 02 26 02
Take your best hacks at haiku -- everyone does. Assistant librarians and literature professors. And probably claims adjusters and commercial realtors, when no one's looking.
By Ronnie Virgets
Snake Oil Salesman 02 12 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Life Lines 01 29 02
By Ronnie Virgets
Emptying the Notebook 01 15 02
The columnist devotes a hideous portion of his or her year trailing after events and the people who make them with a notebook, furiously scribbling.
By Ronnie Virgets
Mixed Nuts 01 01 02
By Ronnie Virgets
King Louis 12 18 01
By Ronnie Virgets
For Better or For Worse 11 13 01
By Ronnie Virgets
A Search for Meaning 10 23 01
By Ronnie Virgets
The Ones That Got Away 10 09 01
By Ronnie Virgets
Playing the Lottery 09 25 01
Someone brought a thermos of coffee and styrofoam cups, and L.J. had a bag of Hubig pies. The thing was turning into a regular Sunday-morning-breakfast-with-the-arts thing.
By Ronnie Virgets
Measuring What's Lost 09 11 01
By Ronnie Virgets
Pulling Rank 08 28 01
By Ronnie Virgets
Virtue and Advice 08 21 01
By Ronnie Virgets
An Audubon Portrait 08 07 01
It wasn't until 1820, Audubon's 35th year, that the idea for his life-altering project came to him: birds of America.
By Ronnie Virgets
Boog's Passing Parade 07 24 01
By Ronnie Virgets
Lazy Daze of Summer 07 10 01
By Ronnie Virgets
Getting His Goat 06 26 01
By Ronnie Virgets
All Work, No Play 06 12 01
My wife wants to go to one of those bed-and-breakfast places in Charleston or Bangor, Maine. It's like being sent to your room for a week.
By Ronnie Virgets
Old Soldiers Never Die... 05 15 01
Several wear T-shirts with the insignia of their old military units, and you don't know whether to laugh or cry at the death's head logos stretched too tight or too slack across torsos disfigured by beer or cancer.
By Ronnie Virgets
Antiques Sideshow 03 06 01
By Ronnie Virgets
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