If you're gonna do wrong, buddy, do wrong right.

“There’s a paradox happening right now with the culture of New Orleans. The culture is in this moment of transformation and this disequilibrium. [After Katrina] it came back with strength because people thought maybe this was going to end and so they were paying attention to the rituals - jazz funerals, second lines, Mardi Gras Indians and all that. But if there is no real estate where these [culture bearers] can live, where the culture was born, what’s going to happen to the culture? Culture is a function of people AND place.

Are Treme and all the other neighborhoods going to go the same way the French Quarter has gone? Because right now the French Quarter is - in my opinion - a theme park! All you have to do is look at these balconies. If you looked here 10 years ago, all these balconies had plants. But no one lives here anymore - it’s too expensive. All this real estate is bought up by really wealthy people from all over the place. And they may come here one, two weeks out of the year - the rest of the time it’s empty. Or, it’s rented out for AirBnb or timeshare. So the result is you have an empty city, an empty French Quarter that is just a place where tourists come, rich people live or have a ‘pied de terre’ - a 'foot in the earth’ where they come for a little while to have fun, but where nobody who really makes up the city lives. Those people have to live somewhere! So these people have to move far away - it’s very stressful and it takes you hours just to get here. I think that’s a big problem.

Johnny Cash, 1962. Photography by Leigh Wiener

It was written and aired in 1969.  

It probably couldn’t air today.

And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.

Boy this hurts my heart….Little pieces of my childhood keep getting chipped away.