Ashley Morris

Creighton Bernette, John Goodman's character on the critically acclaimed HBO drama 'Treme,' is one of many voices trying to be heard in the screaming deafness of post-Katrina New Orleans.

His undying passion and tremendous adversity to help himself, his family and his community to return to the way things were before the storm prompts him to scream until his vocal chords bleed. He weaves common sense solutions and heartfelt sentiments around a string of obscenities, aimed at a world that refuses to put politics aside for the people they are supposed to serve and protect. His voice, however, is not entirely his own.

'Treme' creator David Simon based Goodman's character on Ashley Morris, an even-more vocal blogger and New Orleans resident who took to the Web to voice his disgust with a bureaucratic system designed to protect the people within it rather than work on the safeguards needed to keep the city from being destroyed.