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!
