tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291232662827929830.post2132821757057323804..comments2023-08-12T08:03:41.840-07:00Comments on Poetry Is For Assholes: A journal of the arts: How about some poetry?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291232662827929830.post-5660894435166726702008-07-10T12:24:00.000-07:002008-07-10T12:24:00.000-07:00Hi HD! I've never been to New Orleans, and I never...Hi HD! I've never been to New Orleans, and I never gave it too much thought prior to Katrina. I heard it was hot there and that was all I needed to know. Post Katrina I started paying a lot more attention to the place. Started reading some blogs, read the Times Picayune when they only had an online edition after they were forced to evacuate. It does seem like a place where they know how to have a good time. It also seems sort of magical and dreamlike. The bodies floating in the water seemed like a nightmare while the krewes and the mardi gras indians seem like something beautiful floating up from our national unconscious. I'm curious how the races mix there. In any city where white people are the minority, the white people who chose to stay are often pretty cool. That seems to be true of the white people I've come across. Is that what it's like, or is it more like apartheid, with a tiny white elite? I can say that having lived in and around San Francisco for almost 25 years, the thought of living in a city that could be destroyed by nature is not all that unnerving. Hell, you live in LA. That's a city that is perpetually facing the fire next time.Your driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06406948739451124566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291232662827929830.post-63714120186813017512008-07-10T02:30:00.000-07:002008-07-10T02:30:00.000-07:00Hey Jon,I guess I went home to New Orleans too ear...Hey Jon,<BR/>I guess I went home to New Orleans too early. I would have loved to do this, or at least witness it. This is something new that I've never seen down there.<BR/><BR/>New Orleans breaks my heart, but it's still home. I'd probably move back with a quickness if I could find a job to support myself.<BR/><BR/>I stayed at my sister's whose home is less than half a block from one of the levees. I reminded her that the Mississipi was flooding in other states and she promptly replied, "And...you were going to make a point, right?"<BR/>But that naturally N'Awlins.Hagar's Daughterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05329175102157599795noreply@blogger.com