<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 4, 2005, at 7:39 AM, MB wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">As I'm not a party animal or heavy drinker, NO has had no attraction</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">for me; good seafood is available other places!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I loved it for the music, the food (certainly not limited to seafood!), its many out of the way shops containing things I've seen nowhere else. I didn't care for Bourbon Street except for the music. Some things were so tawdry that I remarked to my companion that only certain Baptist could make "sin" s tawdry and utterly banal. :-) I thought the jazz send-offs at funerals were utterly wonderful. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But what is the point? Are we trying to lessen what has happened by denigrating the city and its people?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- samantha</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>