Rock n Roll Cleveland!
I finally found it...an open coffee shop with WiFi! I'm at the Rue on Oak St. and Carrollton. Apparently, WTUL is now broadcasting from here, in the little upstairs balcony. Underneath which hangs a bannder reading "Rebuilding New Orleans, One Party at a Time
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When I went to Loyola, I took a Creative Writing Workshop class with my best friends Erica and Julia. The professor was Tom Piazza, an amazing New Orleans writer who's published a short story collection and a novel and is getting some real publicity nationwide. I fell completely in love with this man and his writing, and he became a life long friend. I saw him a few months after the hurricane when he came to NYC for a reading at Columbia and it almost broke my heart with hope and joy that he was still himself, and he was whole and alive, and I knew New Orleans would be okay.
Anyway, he wrote a book called "Why New Orleans Matters." Erica gave it to me yesterday as my Christmas gift, and I stayed up all night reading it and weeping and listening to all my NOLA music on my iPod. I was thinking of you, and Erica, and all my friends who love New Orleans with a fierce passion. You MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST read this book. Please give the city a big squeeze and lots of love for me, okay? I feel terrible that I talked so much trash on it right before I left too, and that I left in such a hurry without really acknowledging all that the city gave to me.
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