Especially if you’re New Orleans Magazine, and have published an article in your August issue about how to throw the best hurricane party.
Choice unfortunate sections:
In the unfortunate event that The Big One does comes our way, every hurricane party fits the potential for “the last thing you do before you die” category. With such a profound classification as that, the party had better be good. This level of enormity requires us to call in the big dog – the man who “at any given time is always having more fun than anyone else in the city,” according to a friend and colleague – local writer, man about town and unofficial hurricane-party expert Ian McNulty.
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Most people would assume that serving Hurricane drinks are a natural fit for a hurricane party. But not McNulty – he thinks they’re a cliché.
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A rookie mistake is buying cold beer.
Also, having a drunken party instead of fleeing a Category 5 hurricane.
(Thanks to Sploid for pointing this out)
This is easily the biggest media gaffe since Roger Myers’ controversial cartoon “Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors.”
O. M. G.
I would encourage people to cancel their subscriptions, but fortunately it looks like there’ll never be another issue.
in a halfhearted “defense”: aren’t most articles for monthly publications written weeks/months in advance?
that said, though, the timing on this is nothing short of sucktastic.
Given my understanding of the lead times required by articles like this, this article was probably written sometime in April or May.