I hope this lens will keep you entertained and send you to some of the odder corners of the Web.
As you will see, a lot of my time lately has been spent thinking, traveling, and writing about New Orleans in the aftermath of the disasters, both natural and manmade.
I'll also introduce you to my books, and we'll try to explore the web together. With the search function dysfunctional, it's not easy to see exactly how this site will be less chaotic than a random webpage selection on the web -- but we'll see what happens!
What It Means To Miss New Orleans
22 reasons we need our national capital of eccentricity
September 4, 2005ALL week we've been watching the immersion of a great old city. We imagine another city, less peculiar, will arise in its place. But I have this feeling it will never be quite the same nontoxic gumbo again.
For outsiders New Orleans was a place to party and eat food that is way too rich. For the folks who live there it's more complicated -- it's home. Eighty-five percent of them were born there, and they're not going anywhere permanently, so forget this idea they're going to move the city somewhere else.
It's not going to happen. New Orleans is the opposite of America, and we must hold onto places that are the opposite of us. New Orleans is not fast or energetic or efficient, not a go-get-'em Calvinist well-ordered city. It's slow, lazy, sleepy, sweaty, hot, wet, lazy and exotic.
I had a house there, up until three weeks ago, when I sold it. My friends say I'm lucky. I don't feel lucky. (To read the list, click the link below. You'll have to be a Times Select member. (Or check out my website....)
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Disaster Tourism: Going Back to New Orleans
You've never read a travel article quite like this.
Oct. 14, 2005 | NEW ORLEANS -- When Anderson Cooper announced he was leaving New Orleans, I knew it was time for me to come. How could I stay in New York without Anderson's stand-ups from the French Quarter to get me through the night? For the millions who now count ourselves exiles of New Orleans, Cooper's nightly display of outrage on CNN was a balm, a ministration, a prime-time expression of the disaster still ongoing in our hearts: heartache and anger and grief for the people who died, for the beloved city in ruins, the pitiful specter of destroyed lives and homes and businesses, the ruination of hundreds of thousands of people and all of their stuff.But Anderson Cooper was tired. You could see it in the crinkles around his eyes, the tinny croak at the edge of his silvery voice. Who could blame him for wanting to leave? When he said he was heading back to New York, I knew it was the first sign that the country was ready to begin turning its back on the whole thing, and I just had to get down here. See, I had a house in the French Quarter until three weeks before Katrina, when I sold it. I still feel guilty about selling, even though the house stayed high and dry throughout the flood. I feel like the last guy to get off the Titanic before it sailed into history.
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