The Dutch, the Swedes, the Norse,
I think I can blame the Scandinavians and thier ilk for most things. Let's start with Africa.
And continue on to cell phones.
And the financing of the Nazi war effort by remaining neutral in WWII and holding confuscated Jewish money in Nazi bank accounts.
Then to pointy furniture that results in rapid rabid (rabbit) deforestation of SE Asia, which not only creates incredible erosion and water table instability but also contributes to the melting polar ice caps and the poor dead polar bears.
Also, absurdist advertizing. It's overrated and self concious.
The svelte, blue-eyed, blonde haired beauty craze has made acceptable incredible chemical abuse of the female and gay male body.
Fish casserole: inexcusable.
For these reasons I argue that the people of that region owe the people of this country a favor. Y'all need to come down here and work of ya debt by building us a stable land reclamation infrastructure that will protect the wetlands and the lower 9th from further distruction. Not like there's anything left to destroy in the 9th Ward. Anyway, they owe it to the world to protect the nonsensical and beautiful cultures that somehow coexist in this tiny space of the Earth.
The above list may seem a little jouvinile. Do you disagree with my thesis?
Friday--It's pouring the way it does in New Orleans, in all directions at once. There's so much water from the sky that it bounces back up off the ground in an inescabable, polydimensional deluge. Remember, there are no hills till you hit Arkansas, so nothing drains anywhere. Parks flood, lawns flood. Sure as shit roads and houses flood. Even when it's not raining sometimes the air is just full of water droplets, slowly, lightly descending on the city. Nothing here stays static. Seemingly barren piles of sand spout grass crew-cuts in a matter of days if they're left out.
Also, there are no rocks naturally occuring the New Orleans metro area. They instead use shells or imported pebbles from N. Louisiana if they want filler for streets or houses. Anything they don't want to sink into the swamp. It's wierd then, that human habitation has lasted here for centuries since everything decays soon as it's built. You'd think people would cead to the inevitable decrepitude. But things here are built decrepidly, it's an expected characteristic, even in people. From buildings to people's clothes, there's a gentility to the oldness of everything. In trying as hard as I can to get used to shit here, I've come to really feel and say nasty things about stuff that's too well put together, too sleek, too slick. When things work correctly here it's a tell-tale sign that whatever it is, ain't from here. And that's a sin. New Orleanians, I think, on some level, equate the mass of Mexican workers and the Tulane voluntourists in terms of irritating destructive force.
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