Do I detect a hing of jealously that Treme let the Spotted Cat out of the bag? I can’t fault you, as it’s often too crowded lately to bother. Still, what the Treme team have tried to do is paint a picture of the critical issues New Orleans faced, and the failure of most institutions (at all levels) to address them.

And from the start the concern of so many people (not just us bloggers) was whether the city’s people would return, or whether there would be some attempt to rebuild a Potemkin New Orleans more suitable for tourists and economic development. As you admit, New Orleans without its unique culture would just be another southern city, one past its prime.

The active blogging community has mostly rallied behind Treme because of the tens of thousands of hours we have spent in the last five plus years trying to tell that story to the world, to make sure as best we could things happened right, because Treme does in fact mostly get it right.