Hello, my friends! Joe here. This is the blog where I'll be posting about my upcoming Greyhound bus trip/adventure/debacle. More to come later. The name of the blog comes from one of my favorite quotes about New Orleans, by Lafcadio Hearn:
"Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been
buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so
that it has become only a study for archaeologists. Its condition is so
bad that when I write about it, as I intend to do soon, nobody will
believe I am telling the truth. But it is better to live here in
sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio."
One of my very favorite quotes about New Orleans as well. Right up there with:
ReplyDelete“The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces