Saturday, February 17, 2007

Escape from the Big Easy


New Hampshire, here I come.
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10 comments:

Mr roT said...

Sad as hell. I wonder where these people were from though. In New Orleans proper I have heard that things are different. As to moving up here from down there, I can say from personal experience that that will be depressing.

2/17/2007 1:07 PM
Anonymous said...

it's very strange: people talk like they are committed to staying but you get the sense that everybody's recoiling in anticipation of needing to bolt. No one wants to be the last person to leave and to sell their home.

2/17/2007 1:15 PM
Tecumseh said...

Just turn off the lights, willya?

2/17/2007 1:22 PM
Mr roT said...

in town too, Pepe?

2/17/2007 1:34 PM
Anonymous said...

i would guess especially in town. metairie and the rest of the white middle-class cookie-cutter suburbia is back to prestorm levels.

2/17/2007 2:44 PM
Tecumseh said...

Those "white middle-class cookie-cutter suburbanites" are no good, obviously. Fidel would know what to do with them: send them to pick up sugar cane with bare hands, that would teach them a lesson, yes? Pepe, you need to use the Cuban Google for novel solutions to this urban/suburban conundrum.

2/17/2007 2:52 PM
Anonymous said...

"white middle-class cookie-cutter suburbanites" are no good, obviously"

ai - thank you for the opportunity to hearing you squeal like a teenage girl who just got a finger up the butt for the first time. My comment though isn't about the people that live there but rather the urban model: if you cared to pay attention instead of prematurely jumping on some obscure anti-stalinist rhetoric that we all agree on, i mentioned suburbia, not sububrbanites.

2/17/2007 3:09 PM
Mr roT said...

Point it, AI, that Metairie and environs have none of the art and architecture that old New Orleans has. For that suburbia to survive and even prosper while the great achievements decay is tragic.

2/17/2007 3:15 PM
Tecumseh said...

Well, OK, that I understand. And living in the burbs of New Orleans, in the middle of the Big River delta, is not my cup of tea. But still, it always amazes me (even after all these years) how condescending the supposed bleeding heart liberals are towards the working stiff. It's all an act, of course. Does anyone really believe Teddy K or Jean Francois K or any other of the lefty icons cares one whit about the yobs in the boondocks?

2/17/2007 3:38 PM
Mr roT said...

During the big white flights there should have been some good sense on the other side thoguh.

2/17/2007 3:44 PM

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