NOMTOC

Living in New Orleans, I have little reason to make anything up. I have been interviewing a hoodoo root woman in Algiers Point, she lives close to the NOMTOC parade route. This is New Orleans, a city with more layers than a doberge cake and a muffaletta combined. If you don’t get lost, you’ll never know where you belong.

The Krewe of NOMTOC rolls on Valentine’s Day this year, apropos of everything good and true. God bless the West Bank. The other side of the river is New Orleans, too. People who live there call it the Best Bank for a reason. You’ll never know. There is no reason for you to go.

People on the East Bank call the West Bank the West Wank for reasons we needn’t get into here.

NOMTOC stands for New Orleans Most Talked Of Club.

In other news, on the banks of Bayou St. John:

The boat wheel turns. Of course it does. It’s Carnival!