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The Real World: Back to New Orleans, Episode 06

“He’s a weird kid, and weird kids freak me out.” - Jemmye

This week’s episode contains footage from the only evening in which I crossed paths with the show’s cast or crew. It was March 13, 2010 and I was down on Frenchman Street covering the inaugural Foburg Music Festival. Just as The Revivalists were about to take the stage for their headlining spot at Blue Nile, the roommates stormed into the club followed by a production team fully-equipped with cameras, boom mics and light sticks. The whole lot of them posted up in the area of the venue that serves as the main thoroughfare to both the bar and the bathroom, and the roomies spent the better part of the first set with their backs to the stage, yelling in the ears of fame-balling strangers as a killer rock show raged behind them.

My interactions with the gang were thankfully sparse and mostly unspectacular: I let a PA know exactly where he could stick his request to “share” my barstool when he was looking to get a better shot, and when Sahar asked me what I was doing when I grabbed a plastic cup from behind the bar and filled it with the remainder of my bottled beer as I headed to d.b.a. to catch Rotary Downs, I let her know I was aware of how long she had been in New Orleans and found it hard to believe she was unfamiliar with the concept of a “geaux cup.” Maybe I shouldn’t have been so curt with Sahar, but you have to appreciate exactly how ridiculous she looked in that neon green cowboy hat.

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this reminds me even more why I hate Real World New Orleans.
and, even though I did not get a real life look at that neon hat, I could tell Sahar looked like a complete douche-nozzle.

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hate Real World New Orleans. and, even though...real life look at
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