Since we won’t be getting ashes on our foreheads today, I instead lay in bed at 1 am putting together the various pieces of Mardi Gras – standing on the corner of Mimi’s as we began our day yesterday I had all the memories of years passed, meeting T, bringing T2 out for his first Mardi Gras and our first family costuming and as I looked around and saw friends and strangers dressed in every…
I can’t stand the rain against my window. It’s Fat Tuesday for goodness sakes – rain rain go away. More previews of coming attractions. No she is not a Croatian folk dancer, she is a flamingo in the making. But Tin couldn’t stand her getting all the camera attention so he wanted up on the stage too!
The Loup Garou parade arrived about an hour later than dusk but not without a lot of fanfare – it was dark on the bayou with only the streetlights and porch lights reflecting in the water – and each canoe was filled to the brim with musicians. Tin especially like the canoe that looked like it might take on water as it was laden with a tuba and player among other musicians and instruments. Happy…
The Krewe de Loup Garou is parading on boats down the bayou at dusk and will be stopping right across from us to have their after party. Happy Lundi Gras.
Next up: Geaux Gay! – Historian of Gay New Orleans Frank Perez, kick-ass gay mom Rachel Dangermond, and pop stars Frank Jones and Karen Wallace from Jean-Eric.
Here’s a shout out to WWOZ – if you are not tuned to OZ today, yesterday and tomorrow then you are missing out on some of the best music you will ever hear in your life – stream it, turn to it on the dial 90.7 FM, just listen to the music – it blows my mind. Was listening to an interview with Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias about how they came about writing…
One of Roy the Pimp’s ho’s – this is fire ho Still working this one out for myself – had to bring in the coat hanger to get some lift on the ears:
Fat Tuesday tomorrow and we are all geared up here with costumes and provisions and a plan – we’d like to hit the Backstreet Cultural Museum early and depending on how early we get down to Esplanade, we’ll just see how it all goes but the goal is Mimi’s in the Marigny at around 10ish to catch St. Anne and follow them into the Quarter down to Canal Street – see you there my friends.…
Well this is an historic Mardi Gras for sure – Endymion rolling behind Bacchus – two of the largest super krewe parades that are long enough solo. Now because this is the latest Mardi Gras has been in 150 years, we are having record breaking crowds and that is NO LIE MY FRIEND – I could barely get out of the gym this afternoon when a parade erupted down Esplanade Avenue and T got stuck…
My brother very much does not like that I named Loca. She will live up to it, but I insist she is loca from birth. She happens to be a smart dog with a little problem – she swallowed nine million milligrams of speed as a puppy or so we think. She’s a clown but no more so than Jim Belushi or Robin Williams, who are (were) hard to live with as well. But as…