Happy Fasnacht Day!
It is Shrove Tuesday and for those of you who are of the Christian faith, this is the day where you get to gorge before giving up something for Lent. It is around this time of year that I make my traditional joke of, when I was fourteen I gave up organized religion for Lent one year and it improved my life so much that I forgot to go back to it after lent was over. Ba-dum-bump. Thank You, Thank You, I’ll be here all week, tip your waitress and try the veal.
All jokes aside, this is the time of Mardi Gras and Carnival! This is the night you want to be in New Orleans or Sao Palo just enjoying the party! Sadly, I will be in neither tonight, but I am okay with that. Philadelphia used to go a bit crazy on Mardi Gras back when I was in college. We could go to South Street, get drunk, get some beads and just have a good time. Yes there were boobies. Sadly Philadelphians have a tendency of taking things too far and one year some businesses got broken into, and instead of just a fund drunken night with beer and boobies it turned into a riot. That was the last Mardi Gras in Philadelphia. The next year cops were everywhere, being dicks and ruining everything. Eh, that is their job, to patronize and annoy. (That’s a South Park reference.)
Well, anyway, things have calmed down in my life. I don’t go out to get drunk and look at stranger’s boobies anymore. Not that I wouldn’t but the opportunities don’t present themselves anymore the way they used to. I will celebrate Fasnacht tonight by eating a doughnut, maybe one of those brownie-batter-heart ones from Dunkin Doughnuts. Tomorrow when Lent comes I will not give up anything. I haven’t been Christian for the better part of my life, so no reason to start now. I have decided however that I will take up Yoga. I hear good things about it, and the people I know who are into it give it rave reviews. So for no other reason than I want to, I’m going to start Yoga, and maybe eat meat less, considerably less. Chris “rated” X will be happy with this.
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All jokes aside, this is the time of Mardi Gras and Carnival! This is the night you want to be in New Orleans or Sao Palo just enjoying the party! Sadly, I will be in neither tonight, but I am okay with that. Philadelphia used to go a bit crazy on Mardi Gras back when I was in college. We could go to South Street, get drunk, get some beads and just have a good time. Yes there were boobies. Sadly Philadelphians have a tendency of taking things too far and one year some businesses got broken into, and instead of just a fund drunken night with beer and boobies it turned into a riot. That was the last Mardi Gras in Philadelphia. The next year cops were everywhere, being dicks and ruining everything. Eh, that is their job, to patronize and annoy. (That’s a South Park reference.)
Well, anyway, things have calmed down in my life. I don’t go out to get drunk and look at stranger’s boobies anymore. Not that I wouldn’t but the opportunities don’t present themselves anymore the way they used to. I will celebrate Fasnacht tonight by eating a doughnut, maybe one of those brownie-batter-heart ones from Dunkin Doughnuts. Tomorrow when Lent comes I will not give up anything. I haven’t been Christian for the better part of my life, so no reason to start now. I have decided however that I will take up Yoga. I hear good things about it, and the people I know who are into it give it rave reviews. So for no other reason than I want to, I’m going to start Yoga, and maybe eat meat less, considerably less. Chris “rated” X will be happy with this.
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