“The Coronavirus Blues (‘What do you have to lose?’) — in B/Maj-7th” Thomas Balzac had never composed a funeral dirge and now he must do so for the hundreds of thousands in the world who are fast succumbing from complications of SARS-CoV-2 (“Coronavirus”) which suddenly and evilly enslaves humans as…

Aziz is on the run in Afghanistan and in hiding…

The Vieux Carré Times New Orleans News & Views Summer, 2021 The second day of Summer 2021 passed with, both, little and great things happening in the continuing life of the…

A special forces Army Ranger during the Gulf Wars, Gregory Arthur Conan took up his mother’s trade (Parisian artist) after serving two tours of combat duty. …

“SAVING AZIZ” august 12, 2021 by thomas balzac Dear sir, Hello. Good morning. Hope everything be ok there with your. Sir, still I am expecting for embassy reply. Did you get any reply from embassy? hope to hear something positive from side of you, because day by day the brutal Taliban making…

Me: “Here are some fiction story fragments I created. Can you rewrite them into the form of a short story with an interesting ending, please?” ChatGPT: “Certainly! Please provide me with the fiction story fragments, and I’ll do my best to rewrite them…”: “Once upon a time, there was an…

Vietnam War veteran John Thomas Brown returned home shell-shocked but bought a telescope with his discharge pay and for the next 35 years lectured Vieux Carré tourists, visitors and locals about the stars each night near the river in front of Cafe’ du Monde and nearby St. …

You say you look out "for number 1" but what about me, I came first --number 0? Remember that's what Steve Jobs told Bill Gates when Steve insisted he should be "number 1" in their new venture's hierarchy. Bill grinned and agreed heartily. (Of course, in computer-code, 0 comes before 1 (: Good luck getting rich writing, my friend. I once wrote a blog titled "Words for Sale!" and don't think anyone read it... That's Numéro 0, for ya, baby, eat cake! (:

When Thomas Balzac and his friend John Brown assumed John’s jazz-great father Pud’s 100-year lease at the old Tennessee Williams haunt at 632 Saint Peter Street (where the playwright penned “A Streetcar Named Desire” in 1947), Balzac would often visit his best New Orleans friend living on the left or…