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Imagine you're Louis de Pointe du Lac, you've just divorced your second husband and reevaluated all of your life choices, you've spent a cool $10 million on what are essentially your therapy bills, you hop on a 12-hour flight across the world, you return to your hometown, you reunite with your first ex-husband, you process your grief over your daughter a little bit, you're stuck in a hurricane but it's all okay, it was all worth it because you're in a better place now emotionally and can start to move forward

And then, on the vampire-exclusive psychic channel, you hear the voice of your Definitely Still Human buddy Daniel going "hey Louis uh quick update for ya"

New Orleans Drag Queens on Bourbon St,

1975

I need everyone to know that Anne Rice and guy who started Popeyes (the fried chicken place not the cartoon) hated each other and once spent weeks/monthes taking out page length ads against each other in New Orleans newspapers because the Popeyes guy opened a tacky restaurant where Lestat was supposed to have died, or something like that

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/19/us/where-a-vampire-walked-tastes-clash.html

In case anyone thought I was kidding

why am i not at all surprised to read of Anne Rice being litigious about petty bullshit

It gets even better when you realize that, before the restaurant opened, it was an abandoned used car lot. She was literally complaining about an abandoned property being bought and actually USED for something. Because in Lestat’s final scene he walked by the car lot and looked at his reflection in one of the car windows.

I have never enjoyed anything more as I have enjoyed imagining Lestat’s reaction to learning that his final resting place is a restaurant owned by a fast food executive.

I bed everyone to read this article, which includes not only mr. Copeland writing “PS see you in court” but also anne rice writing AS LESTAT and thereby ADJUSTING “CANON” that lestat isnt in the restaurent bc it was so ugly it woke him from his slumpers

Anne Rice could gaf abt canon this is all amazing

This is SUCH a Lestat thing to do though…Lestat most definitely would take an ad out in a paper to critize an ugly restaurant he believed didn’t suite the ambience of New Orleans . If that’s not Canon idk what is . I can see him looking across the street in horror and calling his lawyers while Louis just sits there done with life.

This is the best part. It’s 2:00 Am and I’m losing my mind .

Nothing to see here, just a street corner in New Orleans…..

This is The Violin Monster and he’s really cool. You should all look him up on Facebook. He’s the most talented violinist I have ever met, and he’s super sweet and friendly. He also teaches violin to kids. His back story is he’s a 400+ year old werewolf from Galway, Ireland who plays violin to quell his hunger for human flesh. I forget the details of how he became a werewolf, but I think it had something to do with a deal he made with a witch.

Story time: so one day I actually had spending money, so for funsies I kept putting money in his jack-o-lantern (that’s what his tip bucket is) requesting Scotch-Irish folk songs, and he didn’t just play every song he PLAYED them like he was in a music battle with the Faery King. I was quite impressed. Later, I ran into him, mask-off, at Café Envie and I told him “That was really cool, but you still didn’t play my favorite song ‘The King of the Faeries,’ do you not know it?” and Violin Monster looked around and over his shoulder, and then leaned over me and said in a hushed tone: “Oh I know it, but it’s bad luck to play that song. They say if you play it three times the Faery King himself will appear. So I don’t play that song anymore.” And then he smiled and walked away.

I don’t think Zach is just one of those performers who never breaks character, I think he’s actually summoned faeries by accident with his amazing music.

The man KNOWS

the people of new orleans are losing it

the people of new orleans fuckin rock

Listen.

A neighborhood in New Orleans did this. Shut down traffic for a day to throw the thing a block party.

The city said, “haha guys ok, bet you won’t do it again.”

The next year they had an even bigger birthday party for the pot hole. Disrupted even more traffic. Local bakery donated cake.

The city caved and fixed the road.

If you cannot get things fixed by following the rules, be as bombastic as you need to be.

I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.

An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered

I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”

Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft

In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. Apparently in Japan treating ghosts rudely is basically considered the stupidest thing you could possibly do. For months after the tsunami, taxi drivers would pick up a passenger only to have them give an address in one of the devastated areas. The cab driver often looked up halfway to the destination to find their fare had disappeared. Not wanting to be impolite to the person (even if they were dead) they’d drive to the address, open the door to let them out, then drive away.

I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.

An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered

I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”

Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft

In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. Apparently in Japan treating ghosts rudely is basically considered the stupidest thing you could possibly do. For months after the tsunami, taxi drivers would pick up a passenger only to have them give an address in one of the devastated areas. The cab driver often looked up halfway to the destination to find their fare had disappeared. Not wanting to be impolite to the person (even if they were dead) they’d drive to the address, open the door to let them out, then drive away.

^That is the most Japanese thing I’ve ever heard

Awesome. Taking right action #BlackHistoryMonth

More info - https://www.buzzfeed.com/joelanderson/how-a-small-time-drug-dealer-rescued-dozens-during-katrina 

I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.

Nothing to see here, just a street corner in New Orleans…..

This is The Violin Monster and he’s really cool. You should all look him up on Facebook. He’s the most talented violinist I have ever met, and he’s super sweet and friendly. He also teaches violin to kids. His back story is he’s a 400+ year old werewolf from Galway, Ireland who plays violin to quell his hunger for human flesh. I forget the details of how he became a werewolf, but I think it had something to do with a deal he made with a witch.

Story time: so one day I actually had spending money, so for funsies I kept putting money in his jack-o-lantern (that’s what his tip bucket is) requesting Scotch-Irish folk songs, and he didn’t just play every song he PLAYED them like he was in a music battle with the Faery King. I was quite impressed. Later, I ran into him, mask-off, at Café Envie and I told him “That was really cool, but you still didn’t play my favorite song ‘The King of the Faeries,’ do you not know it?” and Violin Monster looked around and over his shoulder, and then leaned over me and said in a hushed tone: “Oh I know it, but it’s bad luck to play that song. They say if you play it three times the Faery King himself will appear. So I don’t play that song anymore.” And then he smiled and walked away.

I don’t think Zach is just one of those performers who never breaks character, I think he’s actually summoned faeries by accident with his amazing music.

The man KNOWS

What is wrong with the Media? Why aren’t they reporting about real issues like flooding or the water crisis in Flint?

^^

Anyone living there right now to confirm this?

@elementsunbound ??

Yes, it’s true. GMA, weather channel covered it. There will be no disaster declaration because FEMA has no head.

CNN is too busy with crazy Trump to cover anything else.

Mayor of New Orleans declared that the city is in a state of emergency. As of this morning we only have one turbine working out of our five. #2 stopped working a while ago and turbines #3 and #5 lost power in May and July. On Wednesday turbine #4 caught fire and now were running on only one natural gas pump. If it continues to storm heavily then New Orleans will be severely flooded

https://www.google.com/amp/s/articles.nola.com/weather/index.ssf/2017/08/new_orleans_drainage_power_sup.am

https://www.wgno.com/2017/08/10/breaking-fire-decimates-pumping-capacity-for-east-bank-of-orleans-parish/amp/

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.wdsu.com/article/city-warns-residents-after-loss-of-turbine-that-powers-east-bank-pumping-stations/11663407

Not to mention that, if Betsy DeVos’s agenda of school privatization goes through, it would probably bring with it a rapid acceleration in the resegregation of American education, beyond even current levels. This is literally portraying the perpetrator of an injustice as one of the victims of that very injustice.

i haven’t seen this on here yet

you remember the katrina disaster and all the stories about police gunning down refugees trying to get away from the flooding? no? oh yeah, because on network news there wasn’t room for it amid the panicky racist gossip about survivors “shooting at rescue helicopters” and 1000 rapemurders at the Superdome that never actually happened. i remember reading the survivor stories being sent out from blogs and alt news sites by people who didn’t have access to computers yet due to, you know, katrina.

well, five pigs have finally been brought to justice for the subhuman, animal violence that actually did happen, but wasn’t talked about very loud because it didn’t fit the “black barbarian” narrative that actually was not a thing.

feels like this Danziger Bridge shit is being mentioned in the same whispered tones as all the other racist shit retractions.

heckuva job, bush admin. heck-uv-a job.

So I drive by this house every day on my way to work and it is definitely the Skeleton War HQ

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