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May 26, 2006
Walkin'
...And the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if you're in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are, just walk in and say "Shrink, I'm leavin' here today, yes, I'm goin' back home to stay, yes, I'm walkin' to New Orleans."And walk out.
You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both queer and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin' a bar of "Walkin' to New Orleans" and walking out. They may think it's an organization.
And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin' a bar of "Walkin' to New Orleans" and walking out. And friends they may think it's a movement.
And that's what it is, the Walkin' to New Orleans Anti-Hurricree Sippiana Blues Movement, and all you got to do to join in is sing it the next time it comes around on the piano...
Gina has taken a job as Director of Architecture at a New Orleans company heavily involved in the rebuilding of the education infrastructure. She's also made the team as a new skater on the Big Easy Rollergirls.
Cassidy got into Lusher. Liam got into Audubon.
My current company will let me work long-distance for as long as I want.
And we're signing a lease on an apartment Uptown.
Meaning I am officially joining Mark and Ashley in the ranks of ex-pats who are crazy enough and homesick enough and optimistic enough to want to move back to New Orleans after Katrina, despite Katrina, because of Katrina, when we didn't even live there before Katrina.
That makes three, which like the song say, means it's an organization. Anybody wanna make it a movement?
See y'all in mid-July.
Posted by ray at May 26, 2006 5:08 PM | Permalink
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oh holy fuck, I was just writing a piece that starts with:
"Kid, we only gotone question. Have you ever been arrested?"
And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre, with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and all the phenome... - and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, did you ever go to court?"
And I find this here. Whoa.
Congrats, dude. And make sure you have room for me to come down n' stay. And wow, are we gonna tour the fleshpots and eateries or what?
Posted by: Karl Elvis ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.moronosphere.com/rayinneworleans/nav-commenters.gif)
at May 26, 2006 5:49 PM
And the fleshpot eateries.
Posted by: Ray at May 26, 2006 6:51 PM
Wow! I'll be following your move. Like I mentioned, we are no longer "thinking" of going back, we know we will but all the details are hard to nail down right now. It'll be at least a year, at least that what's it seems like right now. Things change when you least expect it I suppose.
Posted by: erika at May 26, 2006 8:05 PM
Very cool, Ray. I hope you're welcomed home.
Posted by: Whirly at May 26, 2006 10:30 PM
Hrrm.
Happy for you. Sad for me.
Posted by: Gregg P. at May 26, 2006 11:32 PM
Can we get that to eat in, Ray, or is that only to go?
We're gonna need to fix your url, bubba.
Posted by: Karl Elvis at May 27, 2006 3:37 AM
Wow....thats pretty great news...best of luck to y'all on the move and your lives in NOLA. Wish we could make the move too...
Posted by: Lisa at May 27, 2006 7:50 AM
New Orleans is getting a good gain with this news, I think. Having people like you there who care fiercely for the city will make all the difference in its rising back up to what it once was. Best of luck with everything.
Posted by: Miss Syl at May 27, 2006 10:05 AM
Excellent!
xoxooxo
Posted by: Circe at May 27, 2006 8:37 PM
Congratulations!
You all must be thrilled.
Posted by: alwaysarousedgirl at May 27, 2006 9:13 PM
Welcome home.
Posted by: Slimbolala at May 28, 2006 6:52 AM
wonderful! good luck on your adventure. be sure to tell us all about it!
Posted by: sarah at May 28, 2006 11:04 AM
ray:
Good news . . . Glad to hear you are coming home.
SDF
Posted by: Seymour D. Fair at May 30, 2006 11:50 AM
Glad to hear it. There's really no substitute for voting with you feet.
Posted by: Stan at May 30, 2006 12:47 PM
YAAAAY!!! Hold a place for me and La R.!!! We may be slow in coming back, but we ARE coming back!!!
Maybe we'll be there in time to see Cassidy graduate from high school!
I am so freakin' happy for y'all.....And tell Kim Berle hi if you get the chance. I'm glad someone with her brain is trying to take charge of this shitblizzard.
Robin
Posted by: Robin at June 2, 2006 4:00 PM
i was searching for 'nerf orbital fucking' and i found this page. where is my nerf orbital fucking?
Posted by: nerf orbital fucking at June 3, 2006 3:38 PM
Sorry, dude, can't help ya, but if you find some, let me know.
I'm guessing that any two random words + fucking will always lead to something or other in my archives.
Posted by: Ray at June 3, 2006 9:45 PM
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