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Joel Anderson

Joel Anderson is better known in the blogosphere and Twitterverse as blackink12 of PostBourgie. He is currently a newspaper reporter in Florida and has worked at several news organizations, including The Associated Press, for nearly a decade.

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TAP Talks Treme: Smoke My Peace Pipe

A different look at what housing projects mean, our mostly fruitless search for sympathetic institutional figures, and Davis walks the friends-with-benefits line.

Joel AndersonMay 25, 2010

Tim Fernholz: It's nice to see Creighton actually teaching and appearing to accomplish his task well, even if he carries on with the usual polemic. It's a much more impressive setting for his arguments than his house.

Alexandra Gutierrez: I wonder if there's any connection between Creighton and Billy Sothern. The same Lafcadio Hearn letter that Creighton read to his class opens Sothern's book Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City , which recounts what happened to the city after the storm -- basically the same project as Treme.

<i>TAP</i> Talks <i>Treme</i>: Shame and Shallow Water

Davis pulls a John Mayer, hope for Annie, and why the women of NOLA are more impressive than the men.

Joel AndersonMay 19, 2010
(HBO)

Joel Anderson: As my wife said, any conversation that starts with "Hey, white boy" is bound to end terribly. Davis is really lucky he walked out of there with only a busted mouth.

Aminatou Sow: Davis pulled a John Mayer! He absolutely deserved that punch and maybe now he'll finally learn to be a good neighbor.

JA: Maybe it's a wake-up call for him because, really, I had to rewind the DVR when I watched that scene. I couldn't believe he felt that comfortable.

And it's telling that no one came to his defense. Because really, there is no defense for that.

TAP Talks Treme: At the Foot of Canal Street

This week's bad guys, the appeal of idealistic European musicians, and bets are on that Mardi Gras is the season finale.

Joel AndersonMay 04, 2010

Tim Fernholz: I found this to be the most interesting week of Treme thus far -- these characters are starting to become a lot more interesting. Who else is excited about Davis' musically inspired Council bid?

TAP Talks Treme: Right Place, Wrong Time

The social hierarchy of musicians, shades of Shake the Devil Off, and can there be good disaster tourism?

Joel AndersonApr 27, 2010

Joel Anderson: I think the third episode was the best so far. Which isn't a surprise. And I'm liking Antoine (Wendell Pierce) a lot more than I thought I would, mostly because it's bound to be fun -- or at least interesting -- wherever he turns up. Still not sure that I was ready to get that familiar with his hindquarters, though.

Aminatou Sow: "I brought beignets. ... Who you fuckin'?"

Phyllis Montana LeBlanc [who plays Antoine's girlfriend] for the win! And Pierce deserves an award for his facial expressions in that opening scene.

Strong, beautiful episode. And so quotable!

<i>TAP</i> Talks <i>Treme</i>: Meet de Boys on the Battlefront

The problem with white do-gooders, what really happened with Albert and the burglar, and how Treme offers the strongest class narrative since Roseanne.

Joel AndersonApr 19, 2010

Joel Anderson: True story: Everyone from Louisiana puts hot sauce on everything.

Aminatou Sow: Welcome back to Glee: Bayou Edition. I love how they just casually dropped "mulâtresse."

Alexandra Gutierrez: Given that Coco Robicheaux tossed that line off while sacrificing a chicken on live radio, I'm not even sure that was the most notable part of his cameo.

Tim Fernholz: The authenticity battle commences in earnest: Who has more symbolic credibility, Iraq veterans or Katrina veterans?

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