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February 22, 2006

Week 49: Come back New Orleans. Come back!

Photo from the Barkus Parade (keep reading for more on that)

This week's Rock Heals is an extended love letter to New Orleans.

Team GP headed down there more or less on a lark to lend our modicum of moral support.

And the message back to you: Get on down to New Orleans and spend some money. Feel righteous for every dollar you spend on great food, art for your home, funny tshirts, whatever your bent is. EVERYBODY WINS!

I could go on and on about how your spending choices aRE the last vestige of democratic enfranchisement in our great country... but now is not the time.

Unless you are quick, you'll miss Mardi Gras, but Jazzfest is around the corner (April), and just about any other time is just as good.

Six months after Katrina, most of us around the country see a tangle of congressional testimony and abstract budgeting. And, yeah, you may be tired of hearing about it -- but New Orleans is still there, still in need, and still a national treasure. Maybe you've heard of jazz? This idea that black people could be free citizens? Cocktails? They all started in NOLA.

And Rock Heals has never been about the timeliness of our "journalism." So let her rip...

Week 49 Contents:
Hot House 5: Lovin' Up Some New Orleans
1. Bury 'em Above Ground
2. Herbsaint & Apertifs
3. Spoiled by Tom Varisco
4. Krewe of Barkus Parade
5. Ironwork

Thanks to Tracey for most of the photos (except for the shitty parade ones and the Laveau one I stole...).

Posted by Rock Heals at February 22, 2006 12:00 AM