Comments on: Not All Puppies and Babies In New Orleans

By: 9 Favorite Posts of the Past 6 Months - The Causemopolitan

9 Favorite Posts of the Past 6 Months - The Causemopolitan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:40:13 +0000

[...] Not All Puppies and Babies in New Orleans – My ode to what is broken in New Orleans. Turns out honesty is the best policy. This post gets the most traction in my analytics. It seems hardly ANYONE else has blogged about the transportation woes in New Orleans and according to one guy who contacted me, a previous Kiva fellow interested in a new model for car-sharing, no one else has written about car-sharing in New Orleans at all. [...]

By: New Environments Are Hard - The Causemopolitan

New Environments Are Hard - The Causemopolitan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:39:22 +0000

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By: Angel Robinson

Angel Robinson — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:21:45 +0000

I appreciate your asessment of the city. It’s easy to live somewhere and know things are imperfect (to put it mildly). After a while, those imperfections fade into the background of living daily life. You move around them. You learn to navigate potholes; you learn streets so you don’t need signage; you learn how to time the length of red lights so you can cross the street without getting hit (an especially useful skill when crossing Poydras!). After a while, it’s just life whether or not it’s right. It’s not until someone ese comes to visit that you start to see the peeling paint and the dust in the crevices.

New Orleans is a beautiful city full of beautiful people. She’s not always pretty. Her attitude can be downright ugly sometimes, but she’s always beautiful. For this reason, New Orleanians are willing to fight for her. The sad thing, is that I think we are starting to fight each other more than the institutions that disguise her beauty.

Anyway, I can’t wait to read the rest of your insights. Even though I’m not in government anymore, it’s hard to take off my urban planner hat!

By: Sloane Berrent

Sloane Berrent — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:01:35 +0000

Tod – Thank you as always for your brilliant (!) insights. I have conversations about New Orleans – past, present and future – every day. The good news is that people really are looking forward here and the incredible feeling of loss, grief and despair has retreated to where most people can look at the future. To that point – there are amazing creatives here and I think there would be great benefit to you and New Orleans to connect you with a few people here. Call me tomorrow or Friday for the latest in Creative Job Agency and we can go from there.

Jeff – Your points clear so much up! I kinda was figuring some of those things out, but your concise explanation will help in weeks to come, thank you!

Ramon – Tod is amazing and you two should definitely connect. Let me know what I can do to facilitate.

By: Ramon

Ramon — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:36:13 +0000

No offense taken Sloane…

We’re doin O.K. with interactive,real world connections Tod, but I’d like yer thoughts…

Ramon

By: jeff madison

jeff madison — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:58:06 +0000

Well Sloane, you’ve actually blogged about some of the true New Orleans mysteries. Transportation, street signs and naming conventions or lack thereof.

Here’s a prime example of New Orleans – the type of thing that is comical & infuriating at the same time.

North & South Claiborne…actually runs East – West; which is why South Claiborne and South Carrollton actually intersect rather than run parallel.

The Westbank….is actually SouthEast of the city.

Street Signs….are often tiles, embedded into the corner sidewalk. This is especially true Uptown.

All the Street names change once they get to Canal. You see the French and the Americans didn’t always get along to the point that they renamed the streets in their respective communities.

It’s also why you hear the term “neutral ground” down here rather than median; as it was a neutral area that existed between the different communities that eventually grew into modern New Orleans.

Believe it or not – Street Cars, poor Roads & numerous Potholes all owe their existence to a New Orleans trait that is held dear. Resistance to change. But that’s for another conversation.

Keep up the Blog work!

jjm

By: Tod Brilliant

Tod Brilliant — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:28:33 +0000

Great breakdown, Sloane. While some may look at this as a dis of New Orleans, I’m hoping everyone realizes it takes a lot of love to look this closely and make frank assessments. In fact, it shows more passion for a city than that evidenced by many of its longtime residents who have NOT stood up to the corruption, who have NOT organized to foment any opposition to, well, over a century of poor management of a city with incredible potential.

Keep tabs on the creative commumity for me, will you, Sloane? I’d love to put together a Creative Job Agency event in New Orleans sooner rather than later. Anything that creates interactive, real-world connections in New Orleans will be a boon.

Keep it up.

TESB