Yes, Davis McAlary says he's going to take Janette Desautel to "Feelings in the Marigny." I made the mistake of following the #treme hashtag on Da Twittah during the episode's first run last night. I say this was a mistake because it reminded me of just how misguided some of the local NOLA blogosphere are.
Perhaps I'm being too polite when I say misguided. Bloody feckin ignorant is more like it. More than one local blogger attempted what I'm sure was believed to be snarky comments about Davis saying "in the Marigny," as if he was doing so just for the viewers at home. Perhaps these people thought the "Treme" writers were pandering to the non-local audience too much, hence their attempts at inside jokes.
As usual with many folks, the joke's on them.
New Orleanians regularly add superfluous geographic references when naming people and places. "Cooter Brown's" becomes "Cooter Brown's up in Riverbend," and "Mandina's" becomes "Mandina's on Canal Street." Is there a "Mandina's on St. Charles" that you have to distinguish one from the other? No, but people still add a neighborhood or street or intersection to the name. Sometimes this is an important geographic distinction, such as "Liuzza's on Bienville," as opposed to "Liuzza's at the Track," but most of the time, it's unnecessary speech. I suspect the practice has European roots and has continued on to this day.
This is one of those things that people who really don't understand the city like to mock, when what they're really doing is demonstrating their insular upbringing, or worse yet, the fact that they're just carpetbaggers.
(image shamelessly nicked from the Feeling's Cafe and Bar website)
