Caught a smidgen of the Oscars last night and found they bypassed GasLand and Exit Through The Gift Shop for Inside Job in the best documentary category. Frankly, I was amazed that I was still awake after that bit of the Academy Awards, and even though there were people on Twitter exclaiming over montage after montage, I was loath to go back to watching it. What I now want to see is Dan Sinker of @MayorEmanuel Twitter account fame put out the tweets in book form and then get a movie made based on their story. Perhaps then some joy might come back to the world of motion pictures...or at least to my world.
Truth of the matter is, being near the parade route has started to really wear on us this year, not the least because of the parking issues and the fact that we in the Lower Garden District haven't quite been able to shake the people who want to claim parade-watching land in their names and will fight us with their caution, packing and/or duct tape and mineral rights if they deem it necessary - and they always do. Come Bacchus Sunday, we will probably be at our pal Pacrac's party near the startoff point of the Thoth parade, and then we'll be away, far away, from our 'hood for a while after that. No Bacchus for us. Bah scumbag.
I am now sorely tempted to pull a Nettie with the karaoke machine and have the celebration come to me more. He-ey Mardi Gras.
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Bacchus tends to not suck by our house, largely due to the ladder-hostile tree roots and being so far inside the route no-one parks here.
Come by if you like. (Last year was a drew-brees anomaly, it's normally fine.)
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