Who Writes About New Orleans?

New Orleans brings out the best in playwrights while it brings out the worst in novelists, except for the young Ann Rice, perhaps.  New Orleans produces a mixed bag when it comes to poets.  New Orleans encourages the worst of self-dramatizing tendencies, purple prose, and lots and lots of gratuitous adjectives and adverbs.  New Orleans will encourage a novice writer to feel like a master while scribbling twaddle.  When you run with the dogs in New Orleans, you'll often end up with a pile of doggerel.  Who writes in New Orleans?  Anybody with a laptop.  It's always been that way, even when the laptop was a crow quill pen.

Every day blossoms in front of every house, every morning, in New Orleans.

YOU CAN'T SWING A BROOM WITHOUT HITTING UNE ARTISTE IN NEW ORLEANS.

Who writes this blog about New Orleans?  I'm not going to reveal the identity of your humble narrator.  It won't take much effort to figure it out.  A quick delve into this blog's archives will soon make our author clear.  It's obvious.

Matthew King dislikes writing about himself in the third person.  He much prefers first person, first-hand, accounts of his adventures in this wonderful city he calls home.  He will sometimes write in second person to address you, dear reader.  Thank you for stopping by the blog today.  It's nice to see you.

New Orleans has a secret.  It's hidden in plain sight.

New Orleans is not a finished opera.  Nor, is New Orleans a failed project.  New Orleans has been an ongoing sociology experiment for 300 years, even more so since Hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans history is a story of growth and decay, of repairs and more repairs, of rebirth and renaissance.  The New Orleans story is as old as human nature and it is just as inspiring.  

In a New Orleans state of mind, even angels make mistakes, thinking they are still in Heaven.  In a New Orleans state of mind, there is nowhere to go but up.  New Orlean is The City That Care Forgot.

When you love New Orleans, the world loves you.  We are all God's children.  Saint Augustine had New Orleans in mind, though he didn't put it in those terms.  New Orleans was founded in 1718.  That's 300 wonderful years.

Color is all around in New Orleans.  No one is afraid of color here.

Who writes about New Orleans?  People who love this city.  They can't get it out of their minds.  You should visit and get New Orleans into your mind.

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