“A Streetcar Under Water” or “Still Dependent On The Kindness of Strangers”
Writing by treason on Thursday, 22 of September , 2005 at 3:43 pm
Maybe it started when I saw Mayor Nagin show up to a press conference wearing a “DESIRE” t-shirt. I’m out of the loop, still trying to figure out which color bracelet means what these days. Was this a motivational t-shirt? Was it a tourist thing? Yes, it’s a Nawlins thing. The small print under the word “desire” is:
“If you want it badly enough, it will happen.”
A tad more lofty, depending on how you read it, than the other souvenir favorite:
“New Orleans: Proud to crawl home.”
Well, that got me thinking about a guilty pleasure of mine. Tennessee Williams. And then it all suddenly (last summer?) made sense. Governor Blanco…Blanco…Blanche? That spacy, ineffective, out of touch with reality, pathetic…Wait! Then does that mean that the boorish Mayor, with all his bellowing and vulgarity, is…Stanley?
This is, no doubt, a master’s thesis for some English or Theatre major. And now that Lovely Rita has shifted her path back towards Nawlins, the Crescent City is in the spotlight once more.
Leave the gun, take the beignets - it’s already raining hard on Bourbon Street.
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