#second lines

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Preview: gun violence in New Orleans

Tune in to 89.9 FM this Thursday at 7:35 a.m. to hear the full segment!

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Your thoughts on gun violence in New Orleans

This Sunday marks one year since the Mother's Day second line shooting that left 19 people injured.

We wanted to know how you feel about gun violence in New Orleans, so we asked:

Have you ever avoided a parade/second line because of safety concerns?

How does gun violence affect you/how do you stay safe?

Here's what you said:

“The aggresive aburive dagerous behavior that has developed in our society since the 8Os in epidemic levels destroying our ,what was once, buitiful old neighborhoods, and a decent way of life, has never been adressed apropriatly in our society or judiciary system for the dangerous mental health issue and criminal epedemic that it is: destroying our society and decent way of living for all of the decent and honorable americans the few that are left.”

“I don't let anyone approach me. I'm downright mean and defensive to all street hustlers and don't let them near me. I will put a car between I and all strangers . I cross the street walk fast and stay away from all unknown people. I have taught my child to drop to the ground in case of gunfire and to crawl behind large prefrably metal objects. I am trying to figure out where in this country a human being can live where the police, the justice dept, and local politicians are more interested in justice and violent criminals rather than making massive money from minor traffic infractions of the struggling working poor who are attempting to remain decent and honerable citizens.Sadly I am seeking options to move out orleans parish becouse the blatent and obvious corruption of local polititions massively oppresing the decent poor while allowing thug, gang and gunmen walk free.”

“I never avoided a parade because of safety concerns. I am trained in gun safety and I do carry a weapon at night depending on where I'm going. Some areas are more prone to violence than others. One should avoid certain areas at night because of their history of violence. It is always better to be safe than sorry. ”

“I've never avoided an event in fear of gun violence. I'm aware of it though. I'm a white guy who lives in a mixed neighborhood. I'm friendly with everybody in my area. I always think about how the young guys in my neighborhood have to fear the possibility of gun violence, but I don't largely because I'm white. I'm not the target of shootings. About a month ago, 4 guys, my age, got shot in a drive by. Nobody died, but I didn't even make the news.

“I know. I reported it.”

“It doesn't affect me, but I know it's out there and I'm wary of being in larger crowds”

“Staying my ass home!”

“Never before. But this one I wd probably avoid. ”

“No. I stay aware of my surroundings, lock my car, and avoid known crime areas.”

“Because of crime, traffic cameras, and parking problems, I avoid orleans as much as possible. Rather go somewhere in jefferson or even northshore. ”

“I have only been to one second line in the 2 years I've been in New Orleans. I avoid them because of the random shootings that occur. Gun violence in this city is turning me into a hermit. I hate to leave home because you never know what to expect. ”

“Yes. I avoid-known second line areas. I don't stay stopped at red lights late at night. I don't live in NOLA full time.”

“I often feel a little nervous @ 2nd lines & MG parades but the joy outweighs it. I was at the 1st Post-Katrina 2nd line with my baby son. When the shooting started we ran like everybody else."

“I live in the 7th ward and it is sometimes a concern, but i try not to let it rule my life. I worry for people, though.”

“Yes. I avoid second lines because of past violence.”

“Yes, I have avoided second lines because of gun violence. I don't walk alone almost anywhere after dark. I moved out of a neighborhood I liked because there were too many drive-by shootings/murders.”

“I try not to be around town after midnight and I don't bike alone after dark."

“I have never avoided a second line or parade despite being in the Mother's Day shooting and lying on the ground as people around me were shot- I guess I'm nervous or more jumpy but feel like secondlines are about love and community and violence shouldn't trump that ."

“Yes I have avoided parade especially second lines due to gun violence I don't go and my thought is I don't want to get shot it seems like every time there is a second line there is a shooting."

"The shooting last year has stayed on my mind and makes me sad that someone could be so thoughtless. When I think of second lines I think of that shooting, which is too bad, but I also think of it as an isolated event. One asshole can't stop the crowd from celebrating what makes our lives meaningful."

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Organic Scenes: Part 2 (Adding Context)

In my last post, I talked about using Situation Initiations in an organic scene. The basic idea is to initiate with a situation, rather than starting a scene with the word itself ("Boy, I love golf!").

This brings us to Step 2: Adding Context. A good second line should provide context to the initiation, and sometimes, recontextualize the scene altogether.

Context can be many different things. You could suggest the time, setting, or relationship of the characters, if it hasn't been established. You could also raise the stakes, add a deadline, give a warning, or state a philosophy. No matter if the initiation is situational or relentlessly vague, adding context in the second line of an organic scene is transformative.

Let's say the suggestion is "steak" because most improv suggestions are food.

Initiation: "Mmm, this steak sure is delicious."

A simple, vague initiation. You now face a fork in the road. You can "Yes, And" and agree that dinner is top-notch, where's the salt. Or you can add context.

Second line (adding context): "It's too bad this is your last meal. DEAD MAN WALKING."

By making the delicious steak your scene partner's last meal, you've suddenly recontextualized the scene. You've also suggested a location (jail) and a relationship between the improvisers (cellmates). How much funnier is that vague initiation now?

A few more examples:

Initiation: "Did you remember to water my plants?" Second line (no context): "Shit! I totally forgot! Don't be mad." Second line (adding context): "Yes. And I finished your homework, and did all your chores. Please don't tell Mom about the vase."

Initiation: "Beautiful weather we're having!" Second line (no context): "I know! Don't you just love the outdoors?" Second line (adding context): "I searched the whole island. There's no food. For the love of God, help me build a life raft!"

Initiation: "You don't look like your OkCupid picture." Second line (no context): "Are you sure? Maybe because I'm not smiling."  Second line (adding context): [Improviser gets on knees and hobbles around] "That's strange! I used my headshot."* 

*When in doubt, you guys, don't forget your midget space work.

Adding context is closely related to "Yes, And" but like Situational Initiations, it's directed towards getting to the game of the scene faster. Speaking of Situational Initiations, let's revisit some of the scenes from Part 1 and see how context affects them.

Initiation: "This is your first time volunteering for the Red Cross? Perfect! We're going to throw you in the deep end." Second line: "Yes, let's save some lives! BWA-HA-HA-HA! [*Dracula laugh]."

Initiation: "Honey, don't be mad but I was so excited to find out what you got me for our anniversary. I saw you'd been Googling pearl necklaces." Second line: "Oh. You're about to be super disappointed." 

Initiation: "Sir, I'm afraid I can no longer serve you any more pina coladas. The casino is concerned." Second line: "NO ONE TALKS TO CELINE DION THAT WAY!" 

One last note about adding context: be careful not to negate or deny your scene partner's initiation. A good second line should provide context while still supporting their initiation. There's a line between recontextualizing a scene and flat-out denying your scene partner's initiation. Listen carefully, and make a choice that supports the scene and moves it forward.

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New Orleans:

 Budding entrepreneurs sell everything from liquor to toothpaste – the sheer number of them creating a buyer’s market. The air is choked with good marijuana, bad marijuana, and marijuana that smells like poison ivy. Police are present, but not really to enforce laws. They seem to be there mainly to offer a symbolic trail of breadcrumbs back to an ordinary way of life...

Everywhere there are airbrushed t-shirts to remember the dead. In their pictures, they hold automatic weapons, and the years of existence next to their names are tragically short. Signs posted on houses discourage loitering, and many more homes than it seems like there should be have been made wheelchair-accessible. A member of the club repeatedly makes pleas against the violence, shouting through his mic, “Stop the goddamn killing!”

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But now’s not the time to worry. The children of the club’s members are dressed up in suits, laughing, running past the car that carries this year’s parade king. He looks down at them, never breaking from the smile he casts on all who wish to have his picture. It’s something so simple, his benevolent smile. But it brings a welcome respite from the struggle, and a measure of hope for peace.

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Famous Second Lines!!!

We all know there's a kind of canon concerning famous first lines in literature. How many second lines can you identify? I only got 6, 7, 10, and of course 11! I felt bad I missed 8 and 12. I need to read 13, and 4, but I want 13 more...How'd you do?

Book Riot:

1. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clearly and swiftly moving and blue in the channels.

2. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence.

3. To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail, within touch.

4. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, ” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

5. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of surrounding families, that he is considered as the right property of some one or the other of their daughters.

6. He had safely avoided meeting the landlady on the stairs.

7. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood movie-ectoplasms.

8. My sin, my soul.

9. Full of a baby’s venom.

10. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France.

11. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

12. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.

13. It was a pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.

Click here for the answers if you didn't click "Book Riot" above.

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Opposite me by the massive Renaissance fireplace sat Venus; she was not a casual woman of the half-world, who under this pseudonym wages war against the enemy sex, like Mademoiselle Cleopatra, but the real, true goddess of love.

Venus in Furs by Sacher-Masoch