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Once we hit Louisiana, baby, I don't care
Got a brand new airplane waiting for us there
Give this piece of shit back to Aerosmith.
Wake me up when we get there.
Patterson Hood, Greenville To Baton Rouge-Southern Rock Opera


The right engine was running way too rich and the charter company would no doubt save money and time and rock star grief by flying on to Baton Rouge and then home nursing the engine, exhaust flaming, so long as the pilots kept track of how much more fuel that engine was burning. But they didn't, and so came the failed attempt of an emergency landing at McComb, and the mythical Betamax Guillotine to one of the very greatest rock front men ever, leader of a group that gave The Who a run for their money for craziness and debauchery at the heighth of their fame.

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NEW ORLEANS — In the rush to rebuild, this hurricane-smashed city is dumping its debris into the swamps by the truckload -- and throwing away an opportunity to turn America's costliest natural disaster into the nation's greatest recycling effort, environmentalists say.

Every day, trucks rumble down the streets on their way to the Old Gentilly Landfill, a municipal dump in the swampiest part of the city, to unload the debris that homeowners and contractors have piled up on the curbs throughout New Orleans.

With large-scale home demolitions now beginning, there are no comprehensive, citywide plans to salvage and recycle building materials -- things such as cypress and cedar boards, bricks, cinderblocks and roof tiles.

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