[lit-ideas] I don't know.
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:35:55 -0500
I listened to Bush's Address while talking on the phone. So I can't attest to
what I heard, but I thought I heard FDR. What???????? Well, if the architect
of occupational settlements in Gaza and the West Bank can become the avenger
disassembling them, I guess it's possible that even Bush can blossom a social
conscience. But I personally wonder if New Orleans should be rebuild -- it
will be, of course, too much political pride involved, but should it? Andrei
Codrescu says that it won't be rebuilt -- the tourist trap will, for sure, too
much money to be made -- but not the New Orleans that was New Orleans, not that
unique city. It's soul drowned, he says, or swam elsewhere. The creative
community from the Mardi Gras costumers to musicians to writers to painters to
theatre people to performance artists to street performers to sidewalk
muralists to street acrobats to individuals whose everyday lives are works of
art -- that community, Codrescu says, has moved on and will never repopulate
the city because the city will not be rebuilt as an artist's enclave but as a
tourist destination. A place to get drunk, be naughty and lose a lot of money
in. I don't know. I've only been to New Orleans once. During Mardi Gras, of
course. As a slimy tourist, of course. But it was fun!! I like getting drunk
and being naughty. How did a city in the South ever become the number one Sin
City in the the USA -- much more so than Las Vegas, I think. NO 's sin was
recognized as sin, LV decided to call it fun. But sin is always more fun than
fun, so sin wins the fun game. Sin is what the South is all about. We love it
and love more the emotional redemption. So,I say let's make NO our Pompeii and
give Memphis a chance at being the Sin Capital of the USA. Beale Street aches
to be the ruin of many a young boy. What do you think?
Mike Geary
a Memphis sinner
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