New Orleanians typically deal with disasters with passion,
parodies and creativity. The oil spill is no exception.  Dotty
Carson joins the ranks of the restaurant world with her
frustration over the oil spill. "These things hit everyone
whether you're involved in it or not, it hits you when you live
in Louisiana."  How does she cope? With humor. "Kind of how
we're coping because you can't tell people what you want to
say," she says. She has a sign outside her restaurant that says
" Andrew Jackson. Save us from the British one more time.
Signs aren't the only way people are expressing themselves.
"These are probably our three most popular designs related to
the oil spill," says Jessica Abadie showing a number of T-shirts
in Jean Therapy on Magazine Street. She's selling a slue of
t-shirts with new oil spill-related slogans. "These shirts do
give locals a voice when they can't necessarily go down there,
they can at least let it be known that they're very frustrated
with what's going on," she says.  Patrick Ho