Mardi Gras Mambo, Mambo

[infrogmation]

Anyone in the San Francisco Bay area who misses New Orleans Mardi Gras should check out Berkeley Mardi Gras, started by some early apostles of the True Church of the Great Green Frog who moved from NOLA to SF.

Sometimes the obvious lines can be best: I notice bars in the French Quarter selling drinks called "Cheney shots".

We're having a fine "We're Not Dead Yet" celebration here in New Orleans, with the Big Afirmation of Life Festival tomorrow. Stories and pix later, for now two pix of Post Katrina Carnival floats as a sampler.




Knights of Chaos float honoring the Heck of a Job the US Army Corpse of Engineers did on our levees



Krewe of Mid City; blue tarp marks high waterline of the flooding the floats recieved (yeah, it seems they don't actually "float"). This year's parade was all constructed in the formerly flooded Krewe warehouse which still has yet to get electric power back.

Happy Carnival, everybody.

Comments

[crystalgee.livejournal.com]

Happy Carnival to you as well..looks wonderful!

New Yorker Post-Katrina NOLA Mardi Gras Cover

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

P.S.: Word is that this artwork was planned for the cover of the New Yorker (http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/newyorkerjoyces.jpg), but it was pulled at the last minute for something topical about VP Cheney's shooting "incident". Yet another of the miriad of reason to tell Mr. Cheney to go F*** himself.

the Cheney Shot

[meekorouse.livejournal.com]

LMFAO!!! =) thank you! hee hee

going to greet the Sun

[hyla-regilla.livejournal.com]

Hoppy Mardi Gras from a West Coast Frog!

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[mshollie.livejournal.com]

Happy Carnival to all and to all a good night! :)