I have lived New Orleans too vividly to see this pass: your stories?

[chomskysright]

I have spent too much time in NOLA to see this pass. Too many friends: too many viewings of the oleanders upon riding into the city; too many jazz festivals: too many streetcar rides with the windows open: too many concerts: too many oysters Rockefeller served by too many surly waiters: too many visits to the Napoleon House with its low lights: too many gay men heavily kissing in the shadows in the French Quarter: too many nude women swinging into the districts: too many beignets: too many elegant rooms on St. Charles Avenue with the cut-glass windows: too many fine bookstores: too many antiques: too much time besides the big mama of the mississippi.

Its a one of a kind, iconographic city: the unconscious of the US

[moc]

1. Too much time prowling the French Market. Too much time

watching the street life on Jackson Square - the balloon guy who made a "Blues Clues" balloon for my then 4yo daughter and made her eyes light up, the kids tapping with bottle caps affixed to the bottom of their shoes

My husband would talk about too many visits to the "Rock and Bowl" and too much time spent listening to the Iguanas.

There's no such thing as too many beignets. :)

[Rowdyboy]

2. Too many hot men at Lafitte's, too many fried oysters and crabs....

too much fun too early in the day.....New Orleans was my heart and its been ripped out, chewed up and stomped on.....