10 Reasons Why New Orleans

1.) I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I laid eyes on it at age 14. I'll never get over that feeling.

2.) Where else do people give birthday parties for potholes and paint their own street signs when a storm knocks the old ones down?

3.) Where else do people steal storm sewer covers because they are works of art?

4.) Where else can you hear such fascinating stories in line at the supermarket?

5.) Because of all the talented, creative, crazy people in its past and those yet to come. Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Walker Percy...this city has great ghosts.

6.) All of you.

7.) The slow-roasted duck poboys at Crabby Jacks, the fried chicken at Dunbar 's & the million other incredible meals this city serves up.

8.) I'm stubborn, so I fit in with everyone else who beyond all reason chose to live on a piece of land that could slip into the Gulf of Mexico .

9.) Because the most boring day here is an adventure.

10.) Because, as Joey says, it is home, and if you can't fight for home, what can you fight for?