New Orleans Gotham City Has Its Own Batman Superhero


       
      Carol Forsloff
      Can a Superhero help this devastated city and bring peace to crime-ridden 
neighborhoods?
            Vote it up!  
     

Here comes Batman, a real, live World Superhero into New Orleans, swooping into 
neighborhoods in his dark costume and ready to take on the bad guys anytime. 

The guy in New Orleans is an actual, registered superhero, a member of a World 
Superhero Registry. It takes lot for a fellow to be one, and New Orleans has 
only a single registered superhero in the entire metropolitan area. But that 
should be enough. What’s more our guy is the only superhero registered in the 
entire State of Louisiana, so he’s responsible not just for New Orleans, but 
for Lafayette, the State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Shreveport and even my town of 
Natchitoches, Louisiana in the north central part of the State as well as all 
the towns and cities in between. 

“Nostrum,” as the World Superhero calls himself, lives in New Orleans and has 
his own MySpace profile. Well, how else could the citizens of Gotham contact 
him, after all? His profile on MySpace says it all, “there is right, and there 
is wrong, nothing more.” Talk about strong and silent, well almost silent, but 
certainly a fellow of few words. 

The New Orleans online paper asked to interview “Nostrum,” but he didn’t 
respond to the request. It’s likely he wants to keep his identity disguised. He 
may be Mayor Ray Nagin, after all, taking care of the city by day and arrayed 
in a hero’s costume by night. Nah, most folks would rather have Aaron Neville 
because the lad can sing and has the body to intimidate as well. But who knows 
for sure? 

For those who want to join “Nostrum” the sign up page is here. Understand there 
are terms and conditions for joining because these folks live in the shadow of 
the law, on the fringes where identities are kept secret and where activities 
do not always correspond to the usual and customary ways of crime fighting. 
Since New Orleans hardly has any crime fighting, according to its statistics as 
the city with the highest crime rate of the nation, who would mind a couple of 
fellows who cross the line just a bit in apprehending the bad guys. 

In the meantime the modern Gotham, alias the Crescent City, also known as 
Chocolate City, needs to know that somewhere there is a great hero waiting to 
rescue the people from harm. No one knows for sure when he will show up, but 
hopefully next time there’s a crime wave---like tomorrow. 

http://www.digitaljournal.com/print/article/264971
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups.
For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum

* Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/  
* It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. 
* Read the latest breaking news, and more.
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

<<inline: New_Orleans_bad.jpg>>

Reply via email to