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Chris Rose pens a love letter to New Orleans 20 years after Hurricane Katrina
Posted on 8/27/25 at 1:44 pm
Posted on 8/27/25 at 1:44 pm
LINK
it's behind the nola.com paywall, but it's an incredible read.
a few snippets:
it's behind the nola.com paywall, but it's an incredible read.
a few snippets:
quote:
Dear New Orleans: Have you heard? The exhibitions, exclamations, exhortations and excoriations — in memorium, et ceterum, ad nauseam? Triggered yet? All these sad songs they keep playing, they’re so damn ... sad. As Dr. John might put it, New Orleans is being traumaticalized, all over again. Deja Vieux Carre.
It’s been 20 years since I wrote a letter like this. That one was addressed to America, introducing our beleaguered friends and neighbors who were fleeing the floodwaters — unknowns bound for elsewhere. Our Exodus. So what is this thing that is happening right now, this ... reckoning? An anniversary? Accurate, but that term always seems to fail this auspicious occasion. A commemoration? A remembrance? That one’s got a touch of proper gravitas.
An apotheosis, perhaps — a collective acknowledgment that Katrina still lords over our lives two decades later? The head spins. Who can even think straight with all this 8/29/05, 24/7, somebody please pass the 4/20.
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Posted on 8/27/25 at 1:51 pm to geauxtigers87
Nice. I liked Chris Rose. Used to see him on magazine street. He lived by the zoo before shite hit the fan.
This post was edited on 8/27/25 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 8/27/25 at 2:00 pm to geauxtigers87
quote:
Chris Rose pens a love letter
Looks like he typed it
Posted on 8/27/25 at 2:19 pm to geauxtigers87
Isn’t he living in the woods somewhere with bad health conditions?
Posted on 8/27/25 at 2:19 pm to geauxtigers87
Posted on 8/27/25 at 2:22 pm to SlidellCajun
quote:
Isn’t he living in the woods somewhere with bad health conditions?
Yep
quote:
But I’m no hero, that’s understood. What became of me was, I drank myself to death just like everybody said I would. Caused a lot of pain to family and friends. In the fall of 2021, I was diagnosed with end-stage cirrhosis. These past 20 years of active, sometimes relentless drinking have turned my liver to stone. There is no treatment and there is no cure. I’m a dead man walking.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 2:27 pm to geauxtigers87
“Dear, New Orleans
I love and miss your corrupt politicians, progressive morons, pot holes, drug addicts, and welfare recipients terribly!”
I love and miss your corrupt politicians, progressive morons, pot holes, drug addicts, and welfare recipients terribly!”
This post was edited on 8/27/25 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 8/27/25 at 4:52 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Whoa
Sounds horrible
Sounds horrible
Posted on 8/27/25 at 5:02 pm to geauxtigers87
So tired about hearing about this bullshite every year.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 5:02 pm to geauxtigers87
FWB and 420
SOOOOOOOOOOOOO edgy, Chris. It's a poor writer who must use such.
IMHO
YMMV
FWIW
SOOOOOOOOOOOOO edgy, Chris. It's a poor writer who must use such.
IMHO
YMMV
FWIW
Posted on 8/27/25 at 5:35 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
This is garbage ChatGPT bullshite modified by a nut case.
Loves N.O. so much huh? Well then why did you move away?
Loves N.O. so much huh? Well then why did you move away?
Posted on 8/27/25 at 5:40 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Did he just finish his first semester in English Lit at LSU
Posted on 8/27/25 at 6:06 pm to geauxtigers87
Posted on 8/27/25 at 6:10 pm to geauxtigers87
His 60-Second Interview was fun.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 6:13 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
quote:
But I’m no hero, that’s understood. What became of me was, I drank myself to death just like everybody said I would. Caused a lot of pain to family and friends. In the fall of 2021, I was diagnosed with end-stage cirrhosis. These past 20 years of active, sometimes relentless drinking have turned my liver to stone. There is no treatment and there is no cure. I’m a dead man walking.
Wow. That's rough.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 6:49 pm to geauxtigers87
Why New Orleans Matters - Sir Chris Rose
A must-read for the Nola lovers.
A must-not-read for the haters. May those live their bland, efficient, Appleby’s lives elsewhere.
A must-read for the Nola lovers.
A must-not-read for the haters. May those live their bland, efficient, Appleby’s lives elsewhere.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 6:52 pm to Stealth Matrix
quote:
Wow. That's rough.
He lives in camp ground in Maryland. Days are numbered.
Legacy of Nola perspective like few have seen and addiction trail of hurt like too many have endured.
All of ours are numbered. His life rich and full in dimensions most of us don’t know exist, yet, in so doing, shredded his family fabric that many cannot live without.
This post was edited on 8/27/25 at 7:07 pm
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