The coup on Orleans
An email shot through the neighborhood recently putting down Endymion because it is not a neighborhood parade. The writer was correct – it isn’t. People from Timbuktu come set up tents and chairs and camps and take over the neutral ground pretty much canceling out anyone from the hood walking over casually on the actual day of the parade and seeing it.
I passed Orleans around lunchtime and the camps were getting started in earnest – by this evening when I was returning from my hair appointment it was downright shocking! It’s like people are getting ready for the royal wedding or something.
There are many positives to having Endymion in our backyards – it helps our neighborhood businesses make money is the big one. Also it’s kind of cool to have this huge parade in MidCity since everything else is Uptown or in Metairie.