(for me, in the '70s) I attended Mardi Gras to ease the pain.

Happy Mardis Gras....one and all.

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Sorry to have been absent, I returned to France for more work, and more work arrived last week.

Bon Ton Roulet y'all
The Meters

Many, many years ago when I was with a company that did motivation travel for major corporations, I went to New Orleans to organize a Mardi Gras theme party. The first stop was a visit to a warehouse where the components for the parade floats were kept.

It was a dark and shadowy place.

Like a Twighlight Zone episode.

(shudder)

The "next day", after that long haul from snowy Michigan to the Gulf, a pair of young ladies, I'd just met, talked me into talking accompanying them, on my first streetcar ride- #48 through the Garden District, to City Park for an indiginous concert.

Professor Longhair opened the show, which was headlined by the aforementioned "Funky" Meters. My, my...how I wish I'd owned at least one of these pocket digital cameras back then.