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kelliekat44

(7,759 posts) Thu Sep 3, 2015, 01:43 PM Sep 2015

Just finished watching "Treme" on HBO. The story of NOLA after Katrina is worse than you thought.

I had to cry in a couple of places. Desperate times make desperate people and the con and scam artists gouging the government and doing nothing to help made the situation and still makes the situation worse.

Really sad commentary on the people running our state and local governments.

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Just finished watching "Treme" on HBO. The story of NOLA after Katrina is worse than you thought. (Original Post) kelliekat44 Sep 2015 OP

I wish more people had watched Treme. It really did tell the story and I still reel hlthe2b Sep 2015 #1

Read Zeitoon to really make your head explode. Schema Thing Sep 2015 #2

I'm watching it too Blue Owl Sep 2015 #3

Clarke Peters is a great actor. madaboutharry Sep 2015 #4

The John Goodman character was based on real-life NOLA blogger Ashley Morris. KamaAina Sep 2015 #5

hlthe2b

(114,429 posts)

1. I wish more people had watched Treme. It really did tell the story and I still reel

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 01:47 PM

Sep 2015

from the role that John Goodman played earlier on (and his subsequent loss to the depression that Katrina brought to so many). The music was wonderful and the entire series was well done. Poignant, indeed.

David Simon brought the brutal truth of NOLA post Katrina-- and also its resilience--to the viewer in Treme, just as he had inner city Baltimore in the Wire. I would have expected nothing more.

Schema Thing

(10,283 posts)

2. Read Zeitoon to really make your head explode.

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 01:58 PM

Sep 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitoun_(book)

Blue Owl

(59,497 posts)

3. I'm watching it too

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 01:59 PM

Sep 2015

The stories are bleak but the music is wonderful...

madaboutharry

(42,034 posts)

4. Clarke Peters is a great actor.

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 02:11 PM

Sep 2015

I loved every minute of this series.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

5. The John Goodman character was based on real-life NOLA blogger Ashley Morris.

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 02:32 PM

Sep 2015

Some of Creighton's rants were taken word for word from blog posts I had read some time before!

Alas, his memorial page has been replaced by something in German , but here's a tidbit:

http://blog.nola.com/flattrackfever/2008/04/remembering_ashley_morris.html

Prominent blogger and champion for New Orleans, Ashley Morris passed away in Florida on April 2, 2008. Details of his death are unknown at this time.

He is survived by his wife Hana and three pre-school aged children.

He is described by his audience and friends as being an enthusiastic New Orleanian, musician, professor and fiery spirit. Just searching for Ashley's name on Technorati.com shows a reflection of how much influence he had on New Orleans. He was an avid Saints fan and couldn't wait to see his wife bout for the first time with the Big Easy Rollergirls.

Disclaimer: I was one of Ashley's frequent commenters, under the name "Ignatius J. Reilly".

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