RIP New Orleans: 1718~2005

links the future is now Fascination Street ~ The Cure (Galore - The Singles 1987-1997)

A Sad Truth: Cities Aren't Forever

The city of New Orleans is not going to be rebuilt.

The tourist neighborhoods? The ancient parts from the French Quarter to the Garden District on that slim crescent of relatively high ground near the river? Yes, they will be restored. The airport and the convention center? Yes, those, too.

But the far larger swath — the real New Orleans where the tourists don't go, the part that Katrina turned into a toxic soup bowl, its population of 400,000 scattered to the waves? Not so much.

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And I promise I'll get back to real posts soon, I've just been ill the last few days, ever since I've been wanting to write them.