Word: gras
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This was perhaps the closest anyone came to serious analytic thought during Mardi Gras. Some people mourn the loss of the venerable Comus, Momus and Proteus parades, and say that, as private organizations, the krewes, fair or not, shouldn't be controlled by the city. Others say that it was high time that a move towards integration was jump-started, and point out that the city spends much money cleaning up after the parades...
Whatever. I found the third option--going to the integrated Orpheus krewe parade and screaming my head off for some beads--to by favorite solution. When in doubt during Mardi Gras, go with the flow and celebrate...
...Mardi Gras day is almost anticlimactic--everything shuts down and everybody crowds the street beginning in the wee hours of the morning for the Rex and Zulu parades, which are during the day. Most watchers are either bleary-eyed revelers from the night before or chipper family members hoisting their costumed kids into boxes on the tops of ladders for better bead-catching...
Except for a 40-year-old man dressed as Tonya Harding, there were no reminders of Boston, of the Northeast, of any-thing outside of Mardi Gras. It was hedonistic and loose...
...waded through the snow that night to get my forehead ashes and go to section, feeling appropriately somber. My timing was good. But from the desk in my office now dangle three long sets of flat beads in purple, gold and green--the colors of Mardi Gras. Lent will pass, another year will go by and the time for revelry will come again. when it does, you'll be able to find me on St. Charles Ave.., precariously perched on someone's shoulders, smiling a big smile and holding out my hands for some beads. Mardi Gras is balm...