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Rocks And Mardi Gras

February 1, 2013
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“Measure the strike and dip on this baby!” Rocks and Mardi Gras is something I’ve often considered renaming the blog. That or Rocks On The Rocks. You know, so I can make dumb Carnival time jokes like the one above. Tweet

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Krewe du Vieux 2013

January 21, 2013
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The most exciting aspect of walking in New Orleans’s Krewe du Vieux parade every year is not dressing up, throwing goodies to miles and miles of crowd, the loudness, color and flash of everything or even ending the night jamming to the best bands in the city who gather together to play just for us. [...]

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Joyeux Mardi Gras!

February 21, 2012
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Friend of a friend was walking down a New Orleans street last week when a woman stopped him to say, “I’m looking for the Mardi Gras.” Friend wished he had answered, “Duh. St. Claude and Dumaine.” Badumbum. Even after a decade of being a part of Carnival, I stand amazed and awed by it all. [...]

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Because It’s Carnival Time

January 6, 2012

So not making this stuff up. I was at my desk this morning basking in the warm glow of the giant dual screen setup seriously scrutinizing seismic data when the iPhone spontaneously started to play Al Johnson’s “Carnival Time.” Not only is the girl growing scarily self-aware, she has good timing and great taste in [...]

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Happy Fat Tuesday!

March 8, 2011

Carnival in Arcueil Lyonel Feininger, 1911 The Art Institute of Chicago Tweet

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What A Couple Of Weeks

February 21, 2011

Here I sit in a friend’s living room in New Orleans with a few moments to myself. A rare luxury these days. When things happen in my life, they tend to happen all at once. 1) The Packers won the Superbowl! It all happened so fast – we went from possibly wild card to laying [...]

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It’s Carnival Time!

January 6, 2011

Throw your sparkles into the air! Purple, green and gold like you just don’t care! Tweet

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Where Is The Mask That Will Never Fade

May 24, 2010

My mother and I recently watched The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button together. Towards the end of the film, with the winds and rains of Hurricane Katrina threatening to break in the windows of a New Orleans hospital room in which her old mother lies dying, Julia Ormond’s Caroline discovers that Benjamin Button was her father. [...]

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