Happy Mardi Gras DU from New Orleans (pics)

[funkybutt]

ZULU

The Mayor



The music



The African tribal dancers



The Mardi Gras indians:



The FUTURE

[xmas74]

1. Fantastic photos!

[aaronbees]

2. "The Future"

So true! Those photos are fantastic ... great energy and beauty.

[Maddy McCall]

3. Excellent Photos, FB.

I wish we could rec this up so that it'd be on the Greatest Page. It's that awesome. Your photo of the Indian in blue is just wonderful--all of them are.

:thumbsup:

[4morewars]

4. Nice !

Thanks for posting these.

:toast:

[KamaAina]

5. Now I've got some visuals to go with my WWOZ

that I've been streaming all day. They've been playing lots of Indian music all day and at one point were broadcasting from the Backstreet Cultural Museum in Treme.

http://www.wwoz.org/listen.php

Homeward bound in a half hour or so (HI time) to drink it up and polish off a container of Zat's dirty rice from last night. I still can't shake the feeling I wussed out on the real thing, though...

Oh yes, gave you a shoutout on a NOLA rebuilding board when another poster erroneously tagged a Mid-City neighborhood project "broadmoor is rebuilding".

http://disc.server.com/Indices/231355.html

How humiliating for my fifteen-year-exiled self to have to give a geography lesson to a local! Past time to get back in, I guess...

edit: spelling

[funkybutt]

8. WWOZ all day...

we're on the same page

:hi:

[Brotherjohn]

20. Me too! I felt so homesick. (nt)

[lizziegrace]

6. One more recommendation

and this hits the greatest page!

Anyone?

I love these photos. :)

[Syncronaut Seven]

9. you got it!

Went to a mardi gras party in portland this weekend, not the same.

[Maddy McCall]

7. Kick!

[In_The_Wind]

10. Great Pictures!

[bigwillq]

11. Great shots!

:toast: :bounce: :hi:

[SeattleGirl]

12. Thank you so much for sharing these!

I would love to have been there for this one!

[Scout1071]

13. Why is Nagin dressed like General Honore? nt

[funkybutt]

14. costume?

mardi gras costumes are usually satirical

I'm not sure exactly what he meant by this...

what do you think?

:shrug:

[RebelOne]

17. CNN interviewed him and he said

that he was dressed in uniform to honor all the service people who helped after Katrina.

[funkybutt]

21. That makes sense (n/t)

[chookie]

15. WOOOO HOOOOOO!

Thanks for sharing!!!! XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO!
Bon ton roulet!!

[Nicole]

16. Great pics

Thanks for sharing them.

[xchrom]

18. wonderful! thank you!

[Beer Snob-50]

19. fantastic pictures! thanks for sharing

I celebrate Mardi Gras with some cajun food (to connect with NO) and a couple of beers. This year, jumbalya