John McConnell is a local stage actor best known for portraying Huey Long, Earl Long, and Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces. In an interview with Chris Rose, he comments: "I'm wondering if every city shouldn't have its own Confederacy of Dunces that expertly, precisely, and concisely defines the character and characters of that city." I don't know if this is possible, because it has never seemed to me that other cities are as intensely self-aware and insistent upon their own...