Butwāl Krewe du Vieux rolled tonight. I made it there a bit late, and the first thing I saw was a host of papier-mache sperm cells swimming through the French Quarter, surrounded by huge crowds of people. As I got closer I saw they were following a huge float of a female behind with the […]
Tag Archives: New Orleans
Caro ave. Later vale.
08-Feb-09Lovely, democratic, Athenian insanity.
07-Feb-09http://blumberger.net/691-2/ Tomorrow rolls one of Mardi Gras’ first parades: the ribald Krewe du Vieux (pronounced croo duh voo). Its wonderful website gives you a taste of the mix of commentary, buffoonery, and transgression that characterizes the whole season. It’s like something out of Petronius or Lucilius, and yet here it is, in America. And there […]
In New Orleans.
06-Feb-09I arrived in the New Orleans area on Monday and stayed with a friend out in Mandeville, which is on the other side of (the surprisingly beautiful) Lake Pontchartrain. Yesterday I found a room in the Crescent City itself, and today I moved in, with a singer/songwriter (and apparently local legend) named Johnny Angel. […]