The demand for water on Bourbon St.

As everyone knows, I'm in NOLA this week, staying at The Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street.

The hotel provides liters of Evian Natural Spring Water in each hotel room for $6/liter. When I soberly arrived I thought this a ridiculous price. Odd that my demand changed after a night prowling Bourbon St. Upon awakening this morning I demanded the entire liter and just as advertised, "detox with evian," I felt much better and quite able to suffer through my 20 minute presentation (the audience suffered even more!).

I'm working on my list of places to avoid as a public service for 2007 SEA and 2008 ASSA attendees. Number one of my list of places to avoid is Johnny White's on Bourbon Street. It is a simple bar that doesn't smell bad, it has no room for a bad cover bands (and the associated bad dancing), everyone is fully clothed and they sell Abita beer at reasonable prices. Avoid this place!