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infrogmationThe Krewe du Vieux parade last night was excellent, with some good satire. Our hitherto mild winter turned chilly for the parade, but we had a good turn out anyway. I marched with Krewe of Underwear. I got an offer to sub with one of the brass bands but I'd already gotten my costume ready. I was one of the "Corpse of Engineers" presenting "A Day at the Breach".
My pix (some pix may be risque for work viewing):
thumbnail gallery; mostly taken before the parade started
Other folks pix:
30toseoul's pix
from cobaltgreen
from docbrite
lots of pix from bobbysan -- may be slow loading
I saw a good number of folks I was expecting, and even someone I hadn't been able to contact since before the storm. I didn't see a number of people who said they'd be there, but with the crowds & confusions, not suprising. I didn't see any of the folks who said they'd be in front of Molly's, but I flung handfulls of beads, cups, etc while passing there; I hope some were caught by someone I knew.
Today I was doing errands on Magazine Street, and caught the Jefferson City Buzzards practice parade. The Buzzards are a white Uptown working class men's neighborhood group that started parading in the 19th century. Their big parade is on Mardi Gras Day when they march down St. Charles to the Quarter; 3 Sundays before they have their "practice parade" around the neighborhood. Some previous years I'd made a point of catching them, but this year I'd totally forgotten about it, so encountering the silly mini-parade was one of those moments of New Orleans seridipity. For their practice parade they dress in drag. No, they're not gay (not predominently, anyway); they just think it's wacky fun to drink too much beer and go out in drag once a year. Up to 50 years ago, they used to be in drag and blackface.
Buzzards pix
Meanwhile, the House Katrina report shows that the Republican controled Congress is finally showing a bit of willingness to point out some of the administration's collosal failures. Of course the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Rumsfeld administration still has its supporters, though I'm not sure what more the junta could do to demonstrate its nefariousness to the public short of personally going around shooting people or something.
My pix (some pix may be risque for work viewing):
thumbnail gallery; mostly taken before the parade started
Other folks pix:
30toseoul's pix
from cobaltgreen
from docbrite
lots of pix from bobbysan -- may be slow loading
I saw a good number of folks I was expecting, and even someone I hadn't been able to contact since before the storm. I didn't see a number of people who said they'd be there, but with the crowds & confusions, not suprising. I didn't see any of the folks who said they'd be in front of Molly's, but I flung handfulls of beads, cups, etc while passing there; I hope some were caught by someone I knew.
Today I was doing errands on Magazine Street, and caught the Jefferson City Buzzards practice parade. The Buzzards are a white Uptown working class men's neighborhood group that started parading in the 19th century. Their big parade is on Mardi Gras Day when they march down St. Charles to the Quarter; 3 Sundays before they have their "practice parade" around the neighborhood. Some previous years I'd made a point of catching them, but this year I'd totally forgotten about it, so encountering the silly mini-parade was one of those moments of New Orleans seridipity. For their practice parade they dress in drag. No, they're not gay (not predominently, anyway); they just think it's wacky fun to drink too much beer and go out in drag once a year. Up to 50 years ago, they used to be in drag and blackface.
Buzzards pix
Meanwhile, the House Katrina report shows that the Republican controled Congress is finally showing a bit of willingness to point out some of the administration's collosal failures. Of course the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Rumsfeld administration still has its supporters, though I'm not sure what more the junta could do to demonstrate its nefariousness to the public short of personally going around shooting people or something.
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Date: 2006-02-13 08:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-13 11:46 am (UTC)See you soon! :)
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Date: 2006-02-13 07:55 pm (UTC)Buzzards on Parade
Date: 2006-02-14 04:19 am (UTC)Did you know about the Buzzards and Bunk Johnson leaving New Orleans in 1915? It seems Bunk was contracted to play their Mardi Gras Day march, but had too much to drink and didn't show up. Afterwards he heard the Buzzards were looking for him, so he high tailed it to western Louisiana and didn't come back to town for a quarter century.
More Krewe du Vieux pix
Date: 2006-02-14 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-15 04:50 am (UTC)My best friend's daughter, hubby, and young daughter lost their home right near the levee break in the storm and after it is bulldozed, plan to stay and start over.
I thought I would share one of my blogs, I am sure this is all old news to y'all but maybe I have the odd pic you would like.
Best wishes to all of you and enjoy a kingcake for me.
http://www.oldneworleans.blogspot.com/
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Date: 2006-02-17 01:09 am (UTC)Which of the levee breaks? There were several. I have photos online of all the ones accessible from public streets (and a couple that weren't).
Cheers, -- F.
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Date: 2006-02-26 01:59 am (UTC)