Yeah, Tuesday was Mardi Gras! After spending the last two Fat Tuesdays Uptown, I again had did Mardi Gras Downtown ( Read more... )

It's Carnival Time in New Orleans. I've participated in a few events, mostly non-"mainstream" ones thus far.

Saturday 26 Jan I caught a little bit of the 'Tit Rəx mini-parade on St. Roch Avenue and later on Franklin Avenue on my way towards the lineup for the Chewbacchus Parade later that evening. Chewbacchus is a science-fiction related Carnival ( Read more... )

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Another great Mardi Gras... they're all great, I think ( Read more... )

I've started messing around with uploading a few short video snippets taken with my pocket camera to YouTube here. (Hm, I wish I'd got more than a couple seconds of video of the St. Anne band, but I was too busy playing. Maybe Ms. Hollie can take video next time.)

Better than anything I've uploaded, check out "Battle of Jackson Square, Mardi Gras ( Read more... )

The weather was pretty much perfect for Mardi Gras Day this year. There are no doubt a thousand excellent ways to enjoy Mardi Gras in New Orleans; here's what mshollie and I did.

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Yeah, I haven't been posting very much here. I have uploaded a bunch of Carnival photos to Flickr. Infrogmation's Flickr photos

Happy Carnival, folks.

Reportedly New Orleans had about 800,000 visitors here for Mardi Gras-- some 4 times the population of the city now. Yeah, we can throw a party.

Mardi Gras Day mshollie and I avoided the big parades and crowded tourist areas, staying in Marigny and the lower French Quarter. After mimosas at a friend's place we visited a few places around Marigny where ( Read more... )

The weather warmed up for Mardi Gras day. H came downtown with me (for the first time in years) and we had a good time in the lower Quarter and Marigny.

( 4 random photos, with celebrity sightings )

The "Not Dead Yet" celebrations are heating up ( Read more... )