Mini journal collage: Art Nouveau
I just bought tickets for the Oddities & Curiosities Expo in New Orleans next month, one for me and one for Other Sarah. She said she'd pay me back, but it's only $10--unless you also want to sign up for the $300 taxidermy classes, no thank you--and I still feel kind of bad for flaking out on her for Muses. Although that was really nature's fault, I wound up not going because it rained.
I went to the first one that was in New Orleans, in 2019. It was still pretty small at that time, and it wasn't even technically in NO but some event center somewhere in Jeff Parish, I think it was Westwego. (All those West Bank suburbs kind of blur together.) They didn't have one in 2020 of course, and in 2021 I think I decided Covid was still too much of a risk. Especially in Jeff Parish, which is where all the white flight from NO went; when David Duke was elected to the House, that was the area he represented, which should tell you everything you need to know about who the majority of the people that live there are. (Not all of them, of course--Clay Higgins is my Representative and I did NOT vote for that buffoon.) I'm guessing vaccination rates are pretty low. In fact, maybe I could squeeze in another booster before the expo, it's been over 6 months since I got the bivalent shot.
Anyway, it's in actual New Orleans now, at the convention center, so I'm assuming it's gotten larger since the last time I went.