Today is Mardi Gras, tuesday of fat. Actually, tuesday of grease/gras. The real meaning (as I figured out a few years ago in hayti) is that this is the last day before lent, therefore the last day before fasting requires the sacrifice of no fat in the diet.
So we saw our first Mardi Gras in La Nouvelle Orleans. The Rex krewe marched at 10am from Claiborne and Napoleon down to the St Charles infirmary route. Did this krewe originate as the Ku Klux Klan? their costumes sure look like night riders from 'The Klansman', or 'Birth of a Nation'. Their bio says that they started parading 130 years ago, which would put them squarely in the Klan resistance to democracy period.
Good party anyway, on St Charles. A family affair, no showing of mammaries.
The writers guild had a popular parade before Krewe de Rex came on. One sign warned that without the writers guild we would have Sly Stallone writing all the films.
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