Her Majesty Rex commands you...

[ceebeegee]

Happy Mardi Gras!

Everybody say a little prayer for that beautiful city on the river with its unique, crumbling beauty and charm and culture. And I expect to see y'all at Chez Green/Garrabrant tonight for hurricanes, beads and King Cake!

"...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...

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

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:

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

Throw me somethin', mister!

Comments

[kellygirlnyc.livejournal.com]

I just saw a pic this year that the King of Bacchus 2009 is Val Kilmer. Ha! That made me laugh.

[mollyx.livejournal.com]

Is this really going to be the last year they do it?
I saw that somewhere and I just can't believe it.

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

What? What are you talking about? Of course not.