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Patrick Shannon
College: Tulane University · Occupation: Theater Critic - Playwright
609 Franklin Street Gretna, Louisiana 70053 (504) 361-0943 nedcat@earthlink.net
MR. SHANNON is honored to be a long-standing member of the nominating committee for GAMBIT WEEKLY'S Classical Music And Opera Awards. He is also co-theatre critic with Brian Sands for Ambush Magazine. Together they present the Annual Ambie Awards at Le ...Read More
609 Franklin Street Gretna, Louisiana 70053 (504) 361-0943 nedcat@earthlink.net">nedcat@earthlink.net
MR. SHANNON is honored to be a long-standing member of the nominating committee for GAMBIT WEEKLY'S Classical Music And Opera Awards. He is also co-theatre critic with Brian Sands for Ambush Magazine. Together they present the Annual Ambie Awards at Le Chat Noir.
His website, www.CrescentCityChronicles.net, is a periodic journal about New Orleans, its people, its local characters, its politics, its creative and performing arts, its society, its festivals, its oddities, and its enduring place as America’s most unique and entertaining city. It is a journal written from the totally subjective observations of native son, PATRICK SHANNON and his outrageous assistant, MELBA CARONDELET. Mr. Shannon is a poet, writer, theater critic, and photojournalist. He has traveled and lived around the world. His fellow writer, Ms. Carondelet, is a popular raconteur, gossip columnist, self-named historian and absolute Pernod-in-a-mayo-jar addict. Ms. Carondelet is well known locally as a shamelessly outspoken and irreverent character of enormous girth and weight; and what many secretly refer to as an androgynous sexuality and ambigious race. Some even suspect her of being a hermaphrodite. Ms. Carondelet could possibly be an angel or alien.
She neither confirms nor denies anything. She claims to have psychic contacts with spirits of the past and the future. The literary style of her observations embraces an obvious talent for exaggerated mendacity and the illusory truths of magic realism.
Please visit www.CrescentCityChronicles.net to enjoy a totally subjective, humorous, insightful, and sometimes wickedly clever perception of New Orleans, Louisiana by these two popular writers, both of whom hope to entertain their readers in this journal about their home town and all its inimitable inhabitants, habits and habitats. But dear reader, be forewarned. Both real and imagined characters will be described in this little roman à clef. Should you actually believe you recognize yourself in these sketches, remember, a vivid imagination can often alter reality.
Both authors have an unquenchable appetite for pricking those gas filled peers among us who are swollen and ballooned out with self-importance, delusions of grandeur or self righteousness (somewhat like themselves). We are all fools and actors in the drama of our little lives - angels and beasts. So, don't waste your money on lawyers. It won't change a thing. Welcome to www.CrescentCityChronicles.net, Patrick's and Melba's version of their hometown, NEW ORLEANS...
A large cat named Ned once lived with Patrick Shannon. Sadly, Ned died of old age and diabetes on the Saturday evening before hurricane Katrina devasted New Orleans. Ned was a white fluffy cat, with blue eyes. He was always slyly looking at Mr. Shannon because of the stories that he tells. Ned was constantly amazed and surprised by the inventions of Patrick Shannon. He never knew what Patrick Shannon would say or do next. But then, little did Mr. Shannon know, that Ned had his own feline views on his master’s behavior; and those of his curious friends and the people he encountered. Ned is now with the Egyptian goddess of cats, Bast. His mortal remains are in a unique alabaster mausoleum on a private island in Gretna. It should have been chosen as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. Mr. Shannon can be contacted by E-mail at nedcat@earthlink.net">nedcat@earthlink.net.
His webmaster, Hector J. Trau, can be contacted by E-mail at hjtrau@tulanealumni.net.
Mr. Shannon and Mr. Trau will relay any correspondence to the elusive and mysterious Melba Carondelet. It will be sent to her without being read. Whether she replies will depend on the whims and fancy of Ms. Carondelet; and she is capricious as the gods and goddesses of Carnival.
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