Status Updates From The Year Before the Flood: ...

"Guns or butter. In New Orleans, either one can kill you. People in New Orleans act like they invented the very idea of eating, but the city is pretty much synonymous with obesity and a proud tradition of arterial blockage."

A passage from an episode in which the police break up a second line: "I was supposed to hook up with my friends here who have a car, mine is back by Donna's, it's too loud for me to use my phone, the Mother-in-Law (bar) is already full, where am I supposed to go around here?" Walk! That's a five minute walk to the city from where you can catch a bus home and you know it!

This book needs an accompanying soundtrack!

Finally someone writing seriously about New Orleans rap & Cash Money