While the comments on the referenced blog may tend to be hyperbolic, nevertheless the death, destruction, societal and moral breakdown in New Orleans is real. I’m a thousand miles away from it, but the horrific scenes assault me (and the world) every hour. I have done what I can do (I donated money to the American Red Cross), and I urge every US citizen who reads these pages to do the same. New Orleans is (was?) a state of mind, a place of smoke and mirrors, funky jazz, illicit sex, licentiousness of every variety, history (pirates!), superb food and, above all, raucus laughter 24 hours a day. It is a place like no other on the North American continent. I hope and pray that it may some day come back. I doubt it, but hope springs eternal. And, sadly, Fats Domino (Antoine Domino), age 77, is among the missing.
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While the comments on the referenced blog may tend to be hyperbolic, nevertheless the death, destruction, societal and moral breakdown in New Orleans is real. I’m a thousand miles away from it, but the horrific scenes assault me (and the world) every hour. I have done what I can do (I donated money to the American Red Cross), and I urge every US citizen who reads these pages to do the same. New Orleans is (was?) a state of mind, a place of smoke and mirrors, funky jazz, illicit sex, licentiousness of every variety, history (pirates!), superb food and, above all, raucus laughter 24 hours a day. It is a place like no other on the North American continent. I hope and pray that it may some day come back. I doubt it, but hope springs eternal. And, sadly, Fats Domino (Antoine Domino), age 77, is among the missing.