Well mardi gras season kicked off this past friday night with parades that almost didnt roll because of rain, go figure!! We all celebrated our first parade night.....and our first hangovers the next morning!!! Saturday and sunday were unusually quiet on st. charles ave. Im assuming its the calm before the storm(actually im praying it is!!!). Of course, funny shit always happens round here, this weekend included.....On sunday i worked the day bar shift, it was pretty slow, occasionally i would make my way out to the parade, try to catch some cool beads, plastic cups,etc. anyhoo, i happened to walk out to catch one particular float i found interesting. The float(parades theme was king arthur) had 4 larger than life, paper mache knights, one on each corner of the float. The reason i noticed the float, the first knight that caught my eye seemed to be a bobblehead, i thought how original and creative. Once the float drew closer, i noticed none of the other knights were bobbleheads, and which point i chose my own adventure and invisioned watching the evening news that night and one of the top stories being....a freak float accident where an onlooker is crushed by a monsterous paper mache knights head......film at 11!! Ok, maybe i had one too many bloody marys, but that i thought that shit wouldve been hilarious had i seen it!! Ok, so here comes the irony.....while watching the news yesterday with my friend chris,we heard.....wait for it.....a story of a float collapse in an outerlying city, part of the paper mache on the float fell onto a rider....so how many times have i told y'all i got powers????? Also, on that same newscast, im not making this up people, the 5'o'clock news.....they told a story of a town called mink, louisiana who just yesterday for the first time recieved.....wait for it....phone service, not internet, not cable, but phone, these people JUST GOT PHONES!!!!!!! Yeah, i said it, they said there were 15 households in pretty little mink...OH this podunk state, who new all i had to do was catch a glimpse of the local news to get a good laugh!!!!
In other news the sundays paper included the lineups for jazzfest-april 22-may1. check out http://nojazzfest.com/ all y'all better come out here at some point, cuz there's gonna be some kick ass music!!! and plus, ya know, im here!!! Anyhoo, yesterday was my one day off, parades start up again tonight, well they're supposed to, but its probably gonna rain straight through to tomorrow, so we'll see what they decide. Happy mardi gras!!!
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