highlights of Bacchus, 2/22

I watch it on the paradecam. (Times are NY time)

I tune in at 6:15, the supposed start time. The cam is still on the roof at Fat Harry's. The cam goes live at 6:26.

Different hosts. The QT player restarts itself.

We see an Entergy truck at 6:28. The hosts tell us that there are 31 floats, 31 bands, 1200 riders! "It's gonna be a long night." (It turns out to be shorter than I had expected.)

There is some audio hum and the hosts are low level and talking off-mic alot.

The horses I thought were the Budweiser Clydesdales yesterday were probably from the Angola Prison Rodeo.

We see the green and yellow motorcycles again.

The Marine Corps were parading well.

A float was throwing cool dinosaurs.

We then see the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Nice flambeaux!

It's nice of the hosts to shut up when the bands go by so we can hear them. They sound good!

A bubble machine! (And confetti)

Nice Bacchus float.

We see the Jesuit Jayettes again. They do a nice routine. The band plays Louie, Louie.

We see some, and most are, cool drum majors or whatever they call the leaders of the marching bands. They show off some cool moves. This bunch were dancing to Celebrate.

Float #3 A-B-C, nice!

Nice stepping, O Perry Walker. Good percussion. Good band! (The audio starts to break up badly. Pause then play fixes it.)

#4, A 2-headed dragon.

We hear the camera/mic get hit by beads.

Blinky Frisbees! We see one.

(My notes say small child. I think this is when the interviewed a small child that had been brought up to the nola.com booth.)

McDonough #35 band!

A beautiful blue float for the Purple People Eater.

Warren Easton HS - band not quite together. (purple and blue)

Audio is out of sync with the video, ahead of it by 2 or 3 seconds.

Baccha Amore float, nicely lit and a nice Cupid on the back.

Another drum major's cool moves.

#8 LA Swamp Monster.

Patrick, a small child, talks.

The guys in the straw hats and red-striped jackets that I've commented on in earlier posts are from St Paul's School. They definitely have some cool and unique moves.

A nice gator float.

(I miss some stuff here)

The camera pans to show the crowd in front of Fat Harry's.

A good band.

#11, a nice shocked woman's face on the side of the float.

Frederick H Douglas Marching Band had some nice moves.

We see some nice flambeaux shots.

#12,  nice Hydra! (And a nice Court of the Crimson King-styled illustration on the side of the float.)

More flambeaux.

The Bacchusaurus!

What looked to me to be simply an evil character turns out to be an Indian mascot for a school. They may want to change that one...

A band that jumps!

King Kong! People throwing beads at it! And at Queen Kong. And at Baby Kong. When did this start? I think it is hilarious.

Some good flags, purple and gold.

A good band, "H" on their uniforms.

#15, The Phoenix  is nice.

We can hear beads raining down on the mic.

A good band, gold and black, big white flags behind them and good cheerleaders behind that.

One of the hosts, Kate, got hit and is slightly injured. Bleeding?

Another King Kong float!

#20 Pegasus

A band stops in front of the camera. It plays an interesting tune. Their colors are red and black. They have CHS on their uniforms. I think they are the Helen Cox High School from Harvey, LA.

They then play another interesting tune, this one much slower than the usual marching band fare.

One of the members in that band smiles at the camera, shyly enjoying the attention.

#21 Godzilla!

The camera starts going out of focus about now. It goes back into focus on some things but much of the time it is out of focus. (Did the camera person hit a button?)

Some band from Petosky, MI had a double-decker float.

We see some Viking hats on some riders.

#27 is a Witch. The hosts are clueless that it is the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, right from the movie, with her green skin. They thought she might be choking.

#28 had a Sphinx although we couldn't see the body and feet very well at all. It might as well have been just a generic Egyptian figure.

And the last float is dedicated to the America's Wetland Foundation, the same one I saw in Muses, with a collection of people in wetlands animals costumes. Bravo!

The parade ended at about 9:14. Not as long as I thought it would be.