Last night the krewes of Hermes, D’Etat, and Morpheus rolled. I was thinking about taking the night off but once you are out there, those marching bands get to you. And I love to see everyone having fun, like these girls who were out there with mom. There were lots of super cute kids out there last night, this one little boy was ’bout up to my knee and man, he was breakin’ down.

I got the blinky skull/jester throw from D’etat, which is pretty good with the kid competition I was up against but I found this longish set of glass beads on the ground. That is some magic. This is the gold standard jewelry of MG. It don’t get much better than that . . . maybe a Zulu coconut. I caught myself saying “I’m so happy!” a hundred times again but I stopped myself.

Today I am heading over the Tulane/Iberville Corridor to help Paul Ikemire with his neighborhood rally. I know, it’s the middle of freakin Mardi Gras but Paul is an unstoppable force, you can’t not help him. He’s incredible. He’s agreed to include Louisville in his organization. Check out what he’s done so far at http://www.pnola.org/aboutus.cfm

I was out at about 8 am and there are all kinds of people staking out their spots on St. Charles for Endymion already. There are about 3 couches out in front of Fortissimo’s. Endymion will be following the traditional St. Charles route, thus it will be the furthest uptown this parade has rolled in years. Usually it only goes as far as Lee Circle. I usually do not watch this parade, it’s just too big and because people are out there drinking and waiting for it all day, there’s a bunch of waaaay too drunk jackasses out there. Including the riders. I got stuck in a mini-riot one year, bottles were flying everywhere, you couldn’t get out of it. I had to hunker down against a building. I started going to MOMs ball instead but this will be the second year I let that go because it’s at Mardi Gras World and transportation is always a pain in the butt, so we’ll see. . . if it rains I really won’t feel too bad about watching a movie.

Related posts:

1. Council Passes Endymion Resolution
2. Mardi Gras Around Me
3. Endymion Controversy
4. Calling All Krewes For Post-Mardi Gras Cleanup
5. Carnival colors