Weather for Southern Decadence is Outstanding

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New Orleans weather for the annual gay get together is great and predicted to be through Monday. Organizers are hoping for 75,000 to come on down and let the good times roll.

So, while the haters and bigots amongst us are holding their gay hating rallies while continuing their attempts to destroy the constitution, the gay community is pumping millions of dollars into the money starved New Orleans Economy.

I wonder which collective group of asses Jesus would kick.

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1. wish I was in the Big Easy right now

it's rained here every day for a month (literally)

and I'd be happy to be doing the same stuff there. fixing walls and painting and hauling out trash

it'd do my heart good

enjoy and have fun! :hi:

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2. I admit to wondering about the taste factor

I know New Orleans needs the money but I can very much see the video now of gays partying while New Orleans is still a mess being the next right wing best seller. I am very mixed about this.

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3. I believe if the festival puts

50 million dollars worth (or more) of business into the city, the videos will be moot. I really believe all the baptist knuckleheads and their videocams are looking to update their private libraries. They are poster boys and girls for hypocrisy. New Orleans needs a booming tourism trade to aid in the recovery. I say fuck a bunch of right wing garbage.

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4. admittedly the videos happen anyway

I love that city so much and hope that decandence helps the recovery. I really would love to go next year provided that my job situation stays good and all of that.

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5. I was there yesterday morning

to visit a retiring shipmate and swung by the quarter for a beer. Business was brisque in the quarter and slowly but surely filling up. A news report this evening indicated the Bourbon Orleans Hotel was full. It is the best location for convenient partying then crashing.
I'd love to go down there at night but my wife is out of town for the week and my elbow bursitis is killing me. I'm getting too old to be out after the sun goes down. I hope you can make it next year.

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7. Me too

I went to New Orleans three times when I lived in Mississippi. Once for Marti Gras, never again, way too crowded. Once in the early summer and that was fun. Once with a friend from the Teacher Corps. We wound up staying in a very romantic room. I about died from embarrassment as I had picked it without knowing what it was like. He was very cool about it though. It is the only real southern city I would live in as a gay man.

[mitchum]

13. Savannah, Columbia, Charleston are quite hospitable, but not like NO

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14. I have never been to any of those cities

I would be more than a little afraid of living in SC. Georgia isn't as bad though. Atlanta is one other place in the deep south I might try. NC is a little more reasonable though and I am close to vested in retirement here.

[mtnester]

6. One of your city's finest was speaking at a seminar I attended Thursday

Capt. Stephen Gordon...Commander of Communications.

What a pleasant man...I spoke with him after his slide show presentation and speaking gig for about an hour. He had difficulty getting through his presentation, and choked up many times.

Spoke to me about suicides and his staff who decided to stay with him at the 9-1-1 comm center. Talked about the PEOPLE of NO.

Your city should be proud to have representatives like this out and speaking...and our discussion on Mother's "debris" po boys was intense. :)

My hubby and I plan on hitting NO again in the spring. We fell in love with it in 2004, enough to go back in 2005, and we will be back to spend our dough in about 6 months or so.

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8. May I suggest the French Quarter Festival?

13-15 April 2007. Its kinda like a Jazz Fest for the locals (but all are welcome) and its free (not the food.) Music and food booths throughout the quarter and a good time just waiting for all. And the weather is usually between comfortable and warm. While I love the Jazz Fest, the French Quarter Fest is much more user friendly. Get a room in the quarter and walk wherever you want.

I knew the PR guy for the NOPD, Paul Accardo. A great representative for the police. He killed himself a few days after the hurricane hit. That hurt so bad. The former Chief of Police Eddie Compass told him to take a few days off right before he shot himself.

Try a Central Grocery Muffaletta if you come back (hint: one will easily feed two.)

[mtnester]

9. Had one of them beasts last time in, split it with hubby

our favorite bar was, and remains, Molly's at the Market. We were there every evening and LOVED it.

We also had a damn fine meal at Crescent City Brewery, and we hiked to Pasquale's for the BBQ shrimp.

We stayed each time at the Hotel Monaco, but we understand it has still not re-opened (not sure why)

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11. We go down about once a month

and on the way out my wife gets a whole Muffaletta at Central Grocery to go and it provides four lunches for her. The size is pure insanity. My favorite post Hurricane T-Shirt - "Just trying to get back to abnormal."

I think Molly's is where lots of the locals go when their places of business close around the corner. Right next door is Coop's, if you want a killer burger or totally Nawlins Cuisine. The menu is on the chalkboard on the wall. And you don't have to dress up.

[annabanana]

10. I rather think that if New Orleans parties...

EVERYBODY parties..

homophobes would just look even meaner than usual
I mean for God's sake...

It's New Orleans!

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12. Great Idea AnnaBanana

"Homophobe Fest." Then the gays can bring their videocams down and record the hate and evil that is today's "christian conservative" agenda. Maybe they'll burn the constitution at the corner of Bourbon and Saint Ann. Its their ultimate goal.

My favorite bartenders in the quarter love Decadence. They say there is just about zero trouble and the participants tip like crazy.