Doin It Til Death
My head is spinning between love and hate for this city so much that I am nauseous.
I had another fun Mardi Gras. I dressed up as the Borderline Madonna with some other friends who were the various other Madonna personas over the span of her career. After a very cold weekend, the weather was perfect. We even got a cab home, not always a guarantee. The cab dropped me near the Bridge Lounge where I left the car earlier that day to march with the Krewe du Julu. Right there, at the Magazine Culvert area, I came upon emergency vehicles at the scene of what has been referred to as a ‘justifiable homicide’ at the corner of Terpsichore and Magazine St. It looked like murder to me. But I guess if you and your neighbors are drunk and your neighbor tries to set your car on fire, it’s ok to stab them repeatedly in the chest. Stabbings are becoming more en vogue recently. I thought maybe this trend is due to the inability of our new immigrant residents to get guns as easily as their local counter-thugs, except this particular murder victim was reported as a white male. It might just be that stabbing people is simply more fun than shooting them.
It was raining in the morning when I woke up on Ash Wednesday which made me want to stay in bed all day. But I got up and picked the last of the silly string remnants out of my hair, hung out for a conference call that was doomed due to a new councilman’s naive scheduler. I had a nice lunch and got to spend some quality time with someone I respect which certainly made it worthwhile to get out of bed.
My Ash Wednesday run is one thing I do to get back into my ‘normal’ routine, which I know will only last until the next new horror or other. I told Schroeder I sort of just wanted to go back to being Madonna. I took down the Mardi Gras decorations.
You know how you smell puke and you can’t get the smell out of your senses?
Karen Gadbois supplied today’s header photo from the St. Ann parade. Thanks again, Karen ! Glad you made it out there. Photos: Mardi Gras Day 2007
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What evidence do you have that leads you to believe new immigrants are more likely to be involved in stabbings than other residents?
Not so sure there is solid data to support anything in this City right now.
But I imagine that the new influx of workers will bring diffrent types of crime as well.
The Taco Trucks are the one obvious and delicious proof that our population has changed. As far as the stabbing go I would guess, and I repeat GUESS that stabbings are more prevelant in countries were stricter gun controls are enforced.
Having lived in Latin America for over 16 years we saw a lot more knife violence than gun.
Look out, latinos are stab stab crazy! But they sure can make a nice taco! Hey some of my best friends roll their rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs.
Sure, we are already seeing new types of crimes, like workers not getting paid by their contractors and the general gross exploitation of workers. I’ve been in correspondence with the author of this post all day, and the bottom line is that there is no evidence that Latinos are more likely to be involved in stabbings than other residents in this city. There is also a difference between being a victim and a perpetrator of a stabbing. With the work I do, we have received many complaints of Latinos being victims of crimes but not wanting to report due to fear and mistrust of the police, which is not a new issue. I find that blanket statements such as that one, without any solid evidence, to be detrimental to everyone involved.
Jesus Christ, everybody needs to relax for a second. If they don’t like the fact that they are being exploited, they can go back to South America and stop jamming up the hospitals popping out kids so they can become automatic citizens.
I’m sure hate mongers read this blog everyday to pick up ideas on who to hate next. You are who you are and if more and more people refer to you as a dick, then you probably are one. Reading this won’t make anybody dislike who they dislike any more than they already do.
I think guns are a little too expensive for immigrants. Anybody can make a knife out of something like, I don’t know, maybe a sheetrock saw or a screwdriver.
Paulp
I’m usually a reader and not a poster but listen to yourself “they can go back to South America and stop jamming up the hospitals popping out kids”. Unless you’re indian your ancestors did the same thing, get over it. By the way I tip my hat to hispanics and anybody else doing an honest days work putting this city back together.
RobZas
I am actually one of the Aliens who came here 4 billion years ago to plant the biological seeds of life. I find it humorous how you people believe that an invisible man in the sky created all of this. Jesus was made up of cells and atoms and DNA like the rest of you, yet he can change water into wine? I think David Copperfield did that in 1983.
Well, let’s go farther back than that. If your theory is correct, than only the apes and Alligators can bitch about infringements on their territory. I’m sure when the knuckle dragging termite eaters were beginning to disappear because of the Neanderthals, they were pretty pissed off too. Well, let’s see, If this is the case then there are billions of single celled organisms in the ocean who have a beef with everything else on the planet.
The indians didn’t just appear in North America, they came from Asia. So the theory that this was there land does not hold up. It’s all about timing.:)
P.S. The reason why other countries don’t have the immigration problems we have is because they actually have borders that are closed off to anyone who wants to just plop down and move right in. You have to stop at some point. Why do we have to be the slum lords of the world?
How come I did not see that coming : P You know what really gets me rolling on the floor laughing my ass off. Is that with that quick wit and humorous anecdotes you failed to prove anything but a birdbrain idea that you came from alien reproduction well you can have that point. But when you forget about what is conducive to a civilization we can’t define it as billions of single-cell organisms floating in the sea. At the same time as the egyptians where romping around, there where a little group of people called the mayans, look them up they invented a calender, and all kind of fun stuff. I really can’t thank you enough , aliens right, haha, where do the dinosaurs fit into that little formula of yours before or after some martians used the earth as a back seat at a drive-in movie. You’re descended from aliens HAHA that’s rich.
My great grandmother x 17 was a Mayan Princess, she helped out wiith that calender. I think she invented February. That Mayan calender ends in 2012 and then the Earth is supposed to explode. So, I would wait til about 2010 and then buy a bunch of shit on credit. They’re never gonna collect.
“Taco Trucks”,”Alligators”, and “egyptians”?
People eating before and during work is a lot better than people not working. Slamming foods and people gets you nothing but a smug satisfaction that will in a day or two dissipate. Stop your car, eat, talk, etc. I swear to the holy entity of your choice you’ll get more out of it, and remember it a lot longer. No matter what you look like, if you’re an American, they’ll treat you like a cop. Persevere. Order what the new locals order, and I bet you find something you like.
“Alligators” are like bugs until you say the kind of ‘gator. Egyptians built the Pyramids.
Heart