[.cnI redruM]

That about says all that needs saying to Anne Rice, K. Blanco, Mayor Negligence.

[Moral Hazard]

"You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music."

Actually I don't want any of those, but any one would be preferable to your crappy novels.

[RDTF]

This is priceless - I hope it is widely read.

[atomicpossum]

Anne Rice is nothing but a creep.

[grellis]

You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music.

I have never wanted any of those things. Mardi Gras is an embarrassment--that's the nicest thing I can say about it.

[wideawake]

Miss Rice, I thought vampires bit the necks - not the hands - that feed them.

[marmar]

I wonder what ann ricecrispys is contributing to the cause besides her big mouth.........

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If John Fraud Kerry or Algore had been President, all they would have had to do is snap their fingers and 2,000,000 National Guardsmen would have been magically teleported into the eye of Katrina, prevented the wind and flood damage, and made sure that absolutely no one died are was in discomfort in any way.

Honest.

[Vaquero]

Anne Rice wants the good old N'awlins. where someone can throw her some beads and she can flash her cans.....and if the feds don't protect her right to do that by overriding city and state mandates to ignore the impending apocalypse...its their fault anyway and your all racists too boot.

[George Smiley]

I'll buy your books *used* from now on, beyatch.

Make money off of *that*.

[dennisw]

Anne Rice writes vampire novels. What more do you need to know about this freak?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Good response to this kooky, creepy broad.

[jocon307]

Because of this witch, I have now changed my mind about ever travelling to NO again. I've been there three times, but they'll never get another dime of my money. I will probably also make my intended donation to John Grisham's fund, instead of the Salvation Army, to ensure it is spent in and on Mississippi.

[MizSterious]

Figures someone who glorifies bloodsuckers would write something like this.

[MayflowerMadam]

A long time ago she connected with the dark side. Can't really expect someone entrenched in the satanic to do/say the right thing.

[BamaAndy]

Ms. Rice is really into fiction.

[Tacis]

So that I never again can be accused of disappointing Anne, we should not piss away a single dollar on rebuilding this city for the next catastrophy. Let's just clean the place up and turn it back to natural wetlands.

[Leapofaith]

Now what can you expect out of someone who writes a sadomasochistic series of books under a pen name and dresses up as a vampire and comes to a party that they are hosting in a coffin? That was a bunch of "ands" but are we supposed to take her seriously?

[brbethke]

— novelist and New Orleans resident Anne Rice

Make that former New Orleans resident. She moved out in early 2004.

[Adrastus]

Yes, indeedie. "A wee bit of corruption."

When I was a kid I remember living in Buras, La. The town was in Plaquemine Parrish. The Parrish was controled then by Mr Leander Perez. In order to get a Louisiana drivers license my mother had to get a written note from Mr Leander. Years later, while stationed in Hawaii I met and old fellow who left Plaquemine Parrish at the beginning of WWII. We talked a lot about the old home grounds. One thing he asked me was, "Is Mr Leander still running things there?"(His son occupied the cat-bird seat for years after Mr Leanders death).Corruption is as much a part of Louisiana as Pelicans and Hughie P Long.

Sorry Ms Rice. Your history failed you not the US government. Maybe now, having kicked the scab off the festering sore that is Louisana politics, something will happen to get it right.

And, BTW, let it be a lesson to all of us. Politicians left unaccountable to anyone soon become incredible costly to everyone. Washington and state capitols should be made to fear and tremble at the suggestion of constituent oversight.

[afnamvet]

You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music.

I do not want or care about those things for the reason that they are things.