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Laissez les bons temps roulez!

(Editorial from some New Orleans paper--the Times-Picayune, I think)

...It's that time again: that wonderful, crazy, colorful, crowded, happy, mixed-up but glorious time when all New Orleans forgets itself for a day, lets its hair down, puts on a rubber nose, a funny hat, and walks around laughing at the silly people in their crazy costumes...



Revelers at the parade of the Krewe of Orpheus.

Mardi Gras is fun and laughter, vulgarity and coarseness, color and light, and at the end, quiet.



Krewe of Proteus Parade.

Mardi Gras is a state of mind, an attitude, a pose, an opinion. But at its most basic…and perhaps satisfying of all, Mardi Gras is the one day in the entire year when New Orleans can tell the world:



Bourbon Street, the French Quarter.

"We're going to have fun!" And we do.

who planned this?

Date: 2008-02-05 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nswakko15.livejournal.com
Mardis Gras on super tuesday...either this will be very funny or very scary. Wow!

You got a point.

Date: 2008-02-05 05:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mollyx.livejournal.com
Drunk voting.
That can't be good.

Date: 2008-02-05 05:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexlady.livejournal.com
god, i so wanna go someday. i could never scrape anyone together when i lived in st augustine!!

Re: You got a point.

Date: 2008-02-05 05:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dry-2olives.livejournal.com
Well, sober voting hasn't gotten us much lately.

Date: 2008-02-05 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ceebeegee.livejournal.com
It is RIDICULOUSLY fun. I highly recommend it. Best party in the world.

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