It's something in the water

I'm on a deadline right now, so, real quick:

First, I've started thinking of LA as the most goth state in the union. There's already New Orleans, magnet for many transplanted goths and wannabe vampires, and you know, undisputed source of general dark good times. But BaRou has its own morbid current, as I've documented on Abandoned Baton Rouge, and it's evident on BR's own Citysearch page. Last time I noticed this, a funeral home was in my "Popular Places Near You" top five, and today that section included an urgent care center and a taxidermy supply company. (However, #4 in the "top searches" section was "escapades." Unfortunately that yielded no results.) Plus there's the big old live oaks with the Spanish Moss, and the haunted plantations, and all sorts of stuff I haven't even heard about yet. Does anyone reading claim the existence of a more goth state than this one?

I also forgot to mention that this weekend the bf and I finally tried out a local establishment called New York Bagels that I'd passed before thinking, I'll be the judge of that. Predictably, the determination was: No. I've heard that certain toothy bagel goodess is attributed to the water in the NYC area. Even some bagels I've gotten in parts of Jersey aren't tuff enuff. Without that magical ingredient of hard water (for hard New Yorkers) or whatever the secret is, bagels are just dense bread. Ah well, I'll have an everything bagel with sundried tomato tofu spread to make my gut stick out extra far all day in less than a month.

Comments

[Kettle]

The above-ground graves lend to it a bit, I think. After all, nothing screams "zombies, vampires and other undead roaming the streets at night" like an old, run down cemetery with tombs you can peer into...

[jeff]

Maybe the goth thing down there is a backlash from all the purple and yellow.

[JDizzle]

I was in NOLA a few years back and took a city tour which of course included the above ground cemetery and Anne Rice's house. It was pretty cool I guess. I was more into the gardens and landscapes though. Oh yeah, and the booze! We took drinks on the bus w/ us and stopped half way through to refill. Good times. You wouldn't find that in Philly!

[Randy]

I've heard the same thing about NYC's water and its pizza.
And the same thing goes for New Orleans water and its po-boy bread. If someone tries to sell you a "New Orleans Po-Boy" anywhere but southern Louisiana, you must ask them where they get their bread.

[Therese]

On my first visit to New Orleans, I ended up at a goth club on (I think) Toulouse Street called, appropriately enough, the Dungeon. It was like Goth Ground Zero- blood red walls, wrought iron candelabras, a coffin hanging from the ceiling, DJ spinning the Sisters of Mercy, Trent Reznor skulking around the bar...

[meanieT]

I wonder what the least goth state would be?

[Trey]

I'm so goth, my dog doesn't say bow-wow, he says Bauhaus.

[cokane]

Kettle, exactly!

Jeff, oh yeah...I guess the whole LSU Tigers dealie isn't very goth. We can ignore that for these purposes!

JDizz, I took the ghost tour!

Randy, I thought po'boy was another term like hoagie/sub/grinder...it has special bread?

therese, TR was really there? Did you punch him?

MeanieT, Hawaii?

Trey, I have one of the least goth dogs possible.

[amy]

hell yeah! Southern gothic, Voodoo, bayous, creepy crawlies, dark streets and fog, NoLa, Ann Rice... La is so creepy! Why do you think i moved?! I feel safer in NYC.

[ecs]

Your dog's a frat boy who would beat up a goth dog and then do a beer bong. Then all his other yellow lab friends would start barking "COOP! COOP! COOP!" "Wuh!"

[Elizabeth]

Speaking of Anne Rice & her house, I actually saw her there on one of my trips to NO. Not that we were hanging out outside her house or stalking her or anything ...

[Sri]

I think New Orleans is by far the most goth city I've ever been to. I think we even stayed in a bed and breakfast that was 'haunted'. Eerieee...
Therese, I think California might be the least goth state.

[roopa]

It's true - you can't get a New York bagel anywhere but NYC or Long Island. It's the Catskills water.

North London is really goth. It's hilarious, and also totally lame.

[Therese]

Come to think of it, I don't remember if TR was actually there or if one of the goths just told me that he hung out there. I was really drunk.

[Big Daddy]

Bruegger's Bagels are the closest thing to a New York bagel I have ever tasted.

Do they have those out in BaRou?

[Kartek]

I say that Florida is the least goth state with all that disney magic down there. California isn't all warmth and sunshine and especially considering that's the home of the Lost Boys (Santa Cruz)...not totally goth but close enough.