The Historic Creole Inn
- awjeezcomix
- Feb 15
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 5
There's a whole story see, we were in the Big Easy and we were at a vampire speakeasy, and I imagine we were meant to stay much longer because as we were leaving the door man called out "Leaving so soon?" "Yeah, we gotta rest up for tonight." "Bah, sleep when you're dead!" he called. It was a whole thing. The Creole Inn is almost 200 years old and she's a loud one by golly. There were a houseful of us and you can bet the only sleep was of the extra weary type.
This down here is a story about the first time I visited New Orleans in the year 2000 or thereabouts. All true. We came in on a wave of traffic. I got out of the van, peed in the lobby bathroom of a nice hotel, got back in traffic a block later. The cops were questioning a man in standing in his whitey tighties on a residential street. I peed behind a 7-11, always with the peeing in NOLA. We parked and went instantly to Bourbon street, bought Big Ass Beers, Hurricanes, open face roast beef sandwiches. We walked all around and got beads and the cuffs of my trousers were thick with gravy from the gutters. The smell was multitextural. I found a 5 dollar bill folded on the railway, opened it and it was a religious pamphlet. I put it in somebody's hand. I was given some coins by a man in the convenience store where I bought a Mississippi Mud beer, a beer I always wanted to like more than I did. Saw a fella, not more than a boy, lay his cheek down upon the smelly sidewalk at 4 in the morning - "Don't lie down there!" - as I was swept away. Trash was swept into great heaps, we watched them down on Canal street from up on the parking garage, sweeping the trash up into sparkilng drifts, and the water trucks came and rinsed the gravy and beads and glitter went down the drains. The Mississippi was the color of chocolate milk, there was wind, that I remember. I bet I drank a lotta beer but having to pee in the mall and casino was a movement. Always with the peeing in NOLA. We saw The Roots, who had gotten stuck in traffic. That part in the song about the sock - yeah, that happened. Its how I come to float above Endymion.
