Lundi Gras, 2/23

Video from the TP. Who's the band?

Revelers second line to the music at Lundi Gras

Mardi Gras Day

From The TP

French Quarter Revelers

And a slideshow of some good costumes.

highlights of Zulu, Rex and the truck parades, 2/24

2 videos from the TP on Zulu.

Krewe of Zulu

Video: Zulu group celebrates 100 years

I watch the DSU cam, the paradecam and the cam set up for Zulu on the nolacom site.

DSU has Arthur Hardy and crew.

The cam set up for Zulu is under the I-10 overpass. We find out it has good acoustics!

Heard on the DSU cam about New Orleanians in general: "It's encouraging that they're actually the enjoying the tradition of Mardi Gras."  More bon mots to come.

DSU shows some neat old footage of earlier Mardi Gras'. The announcer on one segment describes residents as the Creoles and the Anglo Saxons! We see Rex and Elks pass each other going in different directions on St Charles!

Someone, on the DSU cam?, says, "I'm not gonna eat. I just want beads." Arthur?

We see Pete Fountain. He looks as gracious as ever.

(My computer is at 100% CPU use with all these cams up.)

We see some parade happening on the paradecam at about 9:45 am.

See Zulu in the Garden District on DSU at about 9:47.

The Soulful Warriors.

The woman hosting the Zulu cam says about Orleans and Claiborne: "It looks like the place, it smells like the place" (to be...)

Someone on the DSU cam, I think,  yells "Mic check!" Yes, your mic is live.

The Zuku king passes the Garden District.

We hear a Jesus freak in the background, with a bullhorn.

At Lee Circle we see Mayor Nagin in his Centurion outfit on horseback.

I eat some shrimp. Good!

I can tell there's lots of joy in the air there. And I'm a little drunk, having had a somewhat potent screwdriver for breakfast.

We see a brief shot of some people dressed up as skeletons, part of or inspired by the skeleton gangs, something I want to see more of. (Alas, I don't.) A woman on DSU called them zombies, and didn't know what to make of them. (Educate her/everyone. And I wonder if El Dia De Los Muertos is celebrated in New Orleans. It should be, especially now with the greater Latino population.)

A guy promotes his club on the Zulu cam: "25 and over for the grown and sexy, ...Come get some alligator. I just killed them." Mm, good.

DSU female: "Haven't seen anything too inappropriate."

They talk about the "trouble truck" and Arthur says quietly, they only need them 12 times a  parade." lol

Everyone is saying that the economy is good for Mardi Gras this year. Good!

We see the Zulu Tramps.

We see some dancers chanting, "holdin' down the sidewalk."

Edwin Kerr band, nice.

They say this is the best attended Mardi Gras since Katrina. Good!

11:40 am, we see Rex turn onto St Charles on the paradecam. (They "scoop" DSU.) The theme this year is Pro Bono Publico, for the public good. The paradecam host is very low level.

Nice red outfits and chanting from the (S?) Charles HS of East Cleveland, OH.

The Tiddlywinks! Green dresses and orange hair!

We see a red Cadillac convertible on the Zuku cam. We then hear that Antoinette K Doe died today. One sad note to be topped by the shootings later.

It's noon here and I foolishly look for the Bourbon Street Awards show but have no luck. I check at 1 pm too but don't click the link they have on the nola.com blog thinking it is only to the paradecam. I did check the paradecam often. I wonder if nola.com did show it. I hope to find some internet video of it at some point.

We see the Witch Doctor. We see white guys, underneath their blackfaces, on the Ambassador and the Mayor's float (for Zulu). I knew it was integrated but I didn't know there'd be that many white guys in it.

Rex #13, the Rhapsody of the March Wind float is the one that I noticed earlier that had the Pan figure on it.

See good dancers from Frederick A Douglas HS and a good band. Arthur "has the knack" and is getting beads and throws and the bands to stop and play for the cam.

Dancers from A. Maceo Walker HS in Memhis have nice moves.

Nice Green Man on Rex float #18.

I've eaten all the shrimp  I have by 12:30. It was good. Fried catfish and Bailey's Irish Cream next.

Hear Hey Pocky Way on the Shaka Zulu float.

We see some costumes on Bourbon Street: The Goddesses of Love, Sex, and a few more; Elvis - the publisher of Where Y'at; The Easter Bunny - I think this is the same guy I've seen wear this costume in years past. He's big, 200+ pounds, got a pot belly and looks like he'd be dangerous around young children. A PERFECT Easter Bunny for Mardi Gras!.

DSU does a spot on some restaurant serving raw oysters. Oh, I want some!

A masked Obama appears briefly wearing a wig similar to what is seen on English judges. The mask has a big bright Obama smile on it. Very funny. It pops in and out of the picture quickly, heightening the effect.

We see a skull on a stick.

12:48 pm. It looks like the Elks parade, the first of the truck parades, has started. At first I am not impressed with the floats but as the 100th one passes by I start to appreciate the simple designs they have.

We see a Professor Longhair float on the DSU cam.

The King of something arrives at Lee Circle, 1:13 pm.

We see a Rodrigue blue dog in the Argus float in Metairie.

We watch Rex and Mayor Nagin talk about handcuffs at Gallier Hall. The stream is breaking up alot so I lose audio often.

1:45 pm I don't bother with the paradecam or nola.com anymore. Just DSU.

I hear the Tulane fight song. (Even after looking at the Tulane web page that explains its origins I'm not sure what its title really is... Still, it is one of the great football fight songs. Too bad the team is never very good, nor would I want them to be...)

The bands I'm hearing today are in tune. I liked the other ones but it's nice to know these bands can play in tune. South Terrebone Parish for one.

Nice sunglasses, Rachel.

Some twins get interviewed. Both have high-pitched voices but one is practically a ringer for Butterfly McQueen.

We see a float called  Hibernating Bears. The bears they show are up and around so they aren't hibernating but it's a cool float nonetheless.

#27, the last float for Rex, is The Royal Barge.

Truck parades Elks (Orleans), Crescent City
Trucks are still flowing on the paradecam.

The DSU stream is breaking up, no audio, jerky video. See the first truck parade there.

Something about a black Indian who has a husband Ringo. People really have names like that?

The "Actually, You Might Be  A Redneck" float has riders in pink and children on it.

3pm. We hear someone else has been shot on the parade route. Turns out 6 were.

On the Babes In Toyland float we see a child in a high chair.

DSU interviews some women Drs from NY who rave (positively) about New Orleans and Mardi Gras.

3:33 The DSU player restarts itself. The DSU web page loads fast for a change.

3:40 Travers Mackel is on a balcony in the French Quarter. (Hi, Travers. I know you will be visiting this blog as you did when I blogged on Gustav last year. Come often...) Anyway, he has this verbal crutch, as so many newscasters do, where he says "if you will" often. (Now that you know about it, maybe you can cure yourself of it.)

A nice aerial view of Canal Street.

Travers interviews a woman pirate with a dog, a guy with a funny voice and a woman as a Hubig pie (wrapper)!

Truck 72, truck 73, truck 74...

Travers interviews a bead woman, who is calling herself something else.

We find out 6 people have been shot earlier today.

Some DSU woman says dis'-play rather than display'.

My computer heats up when DSU goes to commercial and all we see is the graphic.

We see Gabrielle dance. She like so many others is just totally giddy.

Travers interviews a family in FEMA sheets!

The stream stops or I only get 0...9...7...0... fps.

See a nice balcony shot.

4:31 pm I get audio back.

A truck has broken down.

DSU does a trash story. The trucks are moving again.

Margaret Orr talks with a 65? 75? year old lady.

Randi Rousseau, the weathergirl,  says 'Ibberville' (ib as in jib) rather than 'Iberville' (I as in eye).

A piece on the Mardi Gras Indians.

Norman Robinson, WDSU anchor and master of malapropisms: "The maddening crowd." It's the madding crowd, Norman. I know it's a strange turn of phrase and awkward when used in most contexts. It means frenzied which the crowds were but it's madding, not maddening.

The DSU cam has some schumtz (dust) on the lens.

We see traffic backing up on the Crescent City Connection going to the West Bank. We also see some floats backed up on a turn in the road.

Travers talks with a LA State Police guy. The LA State Police guy says it has been the best Mardi Gras crowd he has seen in the Quarter in his 28 years.

As I listen to the weatherman, his pitch changes, slowing down! It returns to normal but I haven't seen that before in a stream.

We don't see any more trucks on Canal Street.

It's hard to hear Arthur. Norman: "We'll talk to a commercial break." OK, I guess you will. I think you meant to say 'we'll take a commercial break....'

I never knew floats go to a "den".

We see a flock of white birds on a shot of the trucks on the West Bank.

There is talk of "units."

We see the police trucks pick up the people barriers on Canal Street.

DSU ends it coverage at just before 6 pm, NY time. I then watch the news on DSU. I think it was Arthur who says, 'A million people having fun, that's not news. This is news,' referring to how the national media has picked up the shooting of 6.

We see some white tigers on what I think is the Queen of Zulu's float.

We see a nice Chinese?/Japanese? hat on a guy in the next balcony over from Travers.

We see a segment on the Bourbon Street Awards. Travers' VO  sounds like he is an echoey room. The bathroom at the hotel?

We see the Rex "den" and that a Westfelt was Rex. Probably related to the guy, might even be the guy,  who donated the large sports complex at Tulane.

We see a different piece on the Mardi Gras Indians.

Things are pretty much over . I do watch the Earthlink verison of the  Bourbocam for a little bit but it is blurry.

highlights of Proteus and Orpheus, 2/23

I tune in at 6 pm (All times are NY time.) The DSU page takes forever to load, as usual. I switch between the DSU cam and the paradecam. The DSU cam shows the parade before it has started. The paradecam is still on the roof at Fat Harry's and just has hum, which it will have throughout. Getting sound on both cams.

The DSU cam has some nice shots of the floats. (The stream is pretty good, slightly jerky.)

6:15 no movement. Some good band close-ups. The white noise we hear is the generators of the floats. We see the Atomic Bulldogs band, some cheerleaders practising, some good drumming, a giant dog outfit on somebody (when he leans over the dog's face is looking right at you, woefully. A great costume!)

6:31 pm We see an Entergy truck moving on the paradecam.

Back on the DSU cam we have a sort of battle of the bands; The Atomic Bulldogs vs Baker High School. I'd say the Atomic Bulldogs won.

The paradecam has the #1 float for Proteus. Very hard to hear the hosts and bands on the paradecam. We see movement on the DSU cam. The DSU cameraman climbs to the top of the DSU truck and takes mostly long shots of the parade. Sometimes, for uknown reasons, the DSu feed will totally black out.

We see the Ninth Ward Marching Band! They have a streetcar bell! Good dancing within the band.

Nice dragon float, #7.

Nice face on float #8, the title is "Entertaining the Nobel Head." What is that from?

The paradecam has a bad stream, getting ghosting and losing audio.

Rachel Wulff interviewed a young girl, Stacy, on the DSU cam. The parade has passed her at this point.

No audio on the paradecam, Hitting pause fixes it.

We see a nice close up of Rachel in her pink hat. She then does her stand up. Her audio is overmodulating and the audio is ahead of the video.

Orpheus

Orpheus starts on the DSU cam. Their camera position is ahead of the paradecam. 7:15 m

The DSU cam turns on a spotlight and it illuminates the crowd from far away. I wouldn't want to be in front of that. We see bugs rising up in front of the lens.

The DSU cam blacks out a few more times.

Eventually they switch to the downtown cam so I watch the paradecam.

The paradecam hosts are very low level, very hard to hear.

O Perry Walker's band and dancers are good.

The paradecam interviews Jessica from Omaha. The audio is in sync!

I didn't see her but Joan Rivers was on a float.

LW Higgens HS had some cool dance steps. Good flags, good yellow-outfitted dancers, the drum major did some cool moves.

The paradecam hosts say that they will do the Bourbon Street Awards tomorrow at noon. (I looked for it then but couldn't find it. I really would have loved to have seen it.)

As the Jim Belushi float goes by the paradecam the hostess says she would gladly "give birth to his children."

The paradecam signal is breaking up. We're getting blue screens. (I think there is a cable problem. They're using a cable?!)

Good dancing from Helen Cox HS dancers in white (and afros?) and a good band.

A 3 horse team carriage (and was that a calliope in the cart?)

Smokey Mary comes around the corner. I like the "Drinking car" written on the side of at least one car/float. 6 floats! A nice goose on the back of float #6.

Every time the the third woman host of the paradecam goes nuts over something in the parade, we get blue screens. Cable problem. (We hear ,"Watch the cable, Kate." but that is in reference to the other woman host.)

Beautiful Indians on horses.

The How The Forests Were Planted float has a naked woman on the front. I'm not sure how the two relate.

George Washington Carver marchers look good. Nice dance moves, good band, good red and green flags.

Arlington, IN marchers have nice moves.

The paradecam hosts talk about having designated walkers. I can see having a designated  driver but a designated walker? Maybe it's necessary in New Orleans, probably for crime reasons as much as just getting home at all when drunk.

More blue screens. At one point we overhear one of the hosts, one of the guys, talk on his cell phone about them, probably to the nola.com office.

8:24 pm The parade has reached the DSU cam downtown but it has stopped.

The paradecam is out of focus but the guy apologizes for it.

WT Fisher HS has nice dancers.

We see The Leviathan, which has nice smoke coming out of its nose. Its riders masks are lit up!

We see the LA Rough Riders on horses.

I switch to the DSU cam and see a float I missed earlier that had a screaming child as its figurehead. We get very good sound quality on the DSU cam. (No, not of screaming children...)

The How Oil Springs From The Ground float has an earth goddess on the front. Hunh?

The How The Rabbit Snared The Sun float has a nice sun face on it.

The How The Milky Way Was Born float (#17) has a nice blue sky background with some stars.

The Petosky MI band again. I see that they are a steel band now.

The How Learning Was Instituted float ("learning was instituted?") has an Egyptian figure on it, a queen.

A converted fire truck goes by with a steam organ on it? On its side, "Barney."

The wetlands animals come by, walking this time.

A good band in red goes by.

I can't hear the paradecam hosts at all.

#21 Why The Moon Bewitches  float has a nice moon character painted on it.

#23 How Transportation Was Oriented. What a strange title. Written by a businessman, not someone who understands public psychology.

#24 How Salt is Formed, Nice character.

Orpheus ends on the paradecam. It looks like it is just starting on the DSU cam. See the NOPD truck.

The Angola Prison Rodeo cart. Motorcycles. ATVs. The Trojan horse appears about 2 hours after we saw it Uptown.

Some nice spotlights, sirens. A smokey flambeaux. (Most burn cleanly.)

I go have dinner in another room. When Smokey Mary comes by, the whistle almost makes me jump out of my seat. (I have the computer hooked up to the stereo so it's loud!)

An hour later I'm back from dinner.

The parade ends at about 10:50 NY time.

A City Of Friends

See this YouTube channel for more very well produced spots on New Orleans.



And the main website here.

Barkus

Barkus was 2/15. I missed watching it but here is a good overview of it.

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.

highlights of Okeanos, Mid City and Toth, 2/22

These started Uptown so I watched the paradecam. I start at 11:40am, NY time. (All times below are NY time)

Okeanos

They open with a shot of 7 kids on a ladder box, squirming away. It looks cold down there. People have jackets on with hoods! At least it is a sunny day.

2 white stretch limos go by with a police escort.

Around noon the camera pans around. The video stream is a little jerky.

At about 12:13 we see some official vehicles but no hosts yet. We do see some cars being towed away.

12:26 we see some Entergy trucks. Still no host and no audio.

A shot of Fat Harry's, some people hanging out in front of it.

12:43 we see a NOPD truck and some more cars and the parade has begun. No host and no audio.

We see some green and yellow motorcycles. All the same. Who are these guys?

Then some ATVs.

The first band, the Ramblers.

The first float, a nice seahorse on the end of it.

More ATVs, all red.

2 clown (spelled "klown") units. Are these medical clowns? One is in a little green van, the others follow in a truck.

1 pm the Quicktime player restarts itself at the beginning of the stream. I quit it and restart it to pick up where I left off. Now we have audio and the hosts! Erika is hyping nola.com alot.

The Super Steppers do an ok routine.

Lots of mediocre floats.

Cajun cowboys and indians on horseback.

We see Erika dancing briefly.

A nice long shot of the crowds and floats down St Charles, kids dancing on ladders, riders throwing little green frisbees.

Mid City in 1/2 an hour? (Why wouldn't it be right behind since they are a 1/2 hour behind schedule?)

Mid City

1:45 pm, the host starts and the parade too.

Parrot Heads In Paradise float, a Jimmy Buffet theme for this parade.

Nice purple and gold band (St Augustine?)

Riders on many floats aren't masked. I lose audio in mid-sentence.

Lots of foil floats.

Nice queen smile (as was in Okeanos too)

White and gold and the 2 bees again.

The camera shows a Mid City potato chip bag he caught.

We see the hearse that was in last night's parade and the red hot rod pulling the calliope and band.

A cop greets a parent overseeing one of the marching bands with a high five hand shake and they talk and walk. Good to see people who know each other.

See a mess of a gold float.

The Ramblers Band in a green trailer.

Thoth

38 floats, 25 marching bands, 1250 riders Erika says.

The Chalmette owl!

We get a good close up of a band and some nice drum solos. They lean back when they start walking again.

We see a close up of a doubloon.

Nice lions on the King's float.

Float #13, the King's Entourage, has a weird tilted crown on the front of it.

The Tulane band shows a move or two.

Cute princesses on the Queen's float. The hosts remark that with the aggressive throwing on that float that "they won't be happy until someone loses an eye." I can imagine. (I thought they weren't allowed to throw overhand... but 75% of them are.)

The Rebirth Brass Band passes by but it's too short.

A float is throwing spears!

A nice Sphinx on one float with an equally well done bird woman on the back. (What is the name of that figure in Egyptian iconology? She has a big beak curving down.)

I think it is a guy from Wisconsin who plays the flute next to the nola.com folks. White beard.

Nice hieroglyphs on  one double float.

I can't hear most of what Erika is saying and that is for the good. Then I lose audio altogether. I restart the player and get the audio back.

We see an amphibious vehicle with a boat on it's trailer.

Nice dolphins on float #3, Swimming With the Dolphins.

Flambeaux Band on a red float.

Nicely illustrated swamp float.

Tons of throws from a blue float, #8, The Mermaid.

Nice skull on float #11, Davy Jones Locker and nice hats on the riders of that float.

I'm noticing the audio is ahead of the video. Sigh.

A "beach closed" sign on the jellyfish float.

Urban cowboys on horses.

The male host says the parades are back to back. They aren't. There's at least a 1/2 hour gap between this one and Mid City.

Wasting Away in Margaritaville with a margarita and some parrots.

A multi-armed figure, like a Bodhisattva, This one is skinny. Titled "Lost Mayan Waterfall"? I don't get that.

3:43 pm I am getting tired of hearing Erika in general, and hyping nola.com so much.

Whale watching in Hawaii float has killer whales on it...

A rider is tossing out Jello shots!

A shark float.

The audio is breaking up. I restart the player but all I had to do was pause it and let it play again, which I later learn.

Good dancing from some in blue and white.

Marlin fishing. (Maybe that was a Marlin in an earlier parade instead of a sail or swordfish?)

#23, Crabbing has a large crab on the front of the float.

Abdul and the Tent Makers! What a great name for a band. I've seen them in Mardi Gras parades for the past couple of years now. They're playing "I Feel Good" as they pass by.

#24 Playing with the Penguins, nice penguins on the float and nice penguin throws, we see.

#25 Seahorse Watching, nice seahorse.

Some pirates with signs on a float go nuts for the camera.

We see some belly dancers and I missed it but they say there was a large snake in a box that they have with them.

The parade ends.

highlights of Endymion, 2/21

Video below is from the TP

Krewe of Endymion

Watching the WDSU cam...

I tune in at 5:33 pm, NY time. The WDSU cam has a shot of a plastic
wrapper and a net behind that. We will see that until 6:15 (NY time.
all times are NY time...)

As usual, WDSU web pages take forever to load, several minutes EVERY time.

The parade was supposed to start at 5:15 NY time. We first see it at
about 7:38.

I tried following the Parade Tracker but it didn't move every time I
checked. I reloaded after seeing lights come up on St Charles and it
showed it close on Canal. So much for it working on my browser,
Camino.

Some guy driving in a car/truck, takes a picture of the WDSU cam, with a flash.

The first float with people throwing stuff arrives at 8:09 pm, almost
3 hours after the supposed start time. (Yes, I know it takes time to
get to Poydras and St Charles....)

We see the driver of the La Fabulosa 830 van clapping his hands to
whatever music is there. We have no audio. Very shortly after we do!

The US Marine Corps Band passes by playing The Halls Of Montezuma again.

The Budweiser Clydesdales? pass by. These horses are dark/black though.

Who were the giant anime figures? We see a c/u of some guy with tons
of beads on his head.

St Augustine passes by, looking good and sounding good too.

I see the first Hummer so far. I'm glad I haven't seen more.

Stilt walkers!

The King (Captain) of Endymion passes by. His float has it's own Cat generator!

We see someone give a donation to a flambeaux carrier. I think they
are the only ones who are allowed to get donations. Everything else is given to the crowd.

Kid Rock has a float. So does REO Speedwagon!

We see some good dancers. We also see the same guys I saw before who
had the straw hats and the red striped jackets. This time they only
played, didn't do any dance routine but they had some good moves.

We see the SS Endymion. 4 parts?

Tales of Sleep and Dreams!

Alice in Wonderland rabbits.

Buddha!

A big white float in 4 parts.

One titled The Butterfly Messenger. What was that about? The video
starts getting jerky around 9:53 pm.

A float titled Endymion too.'

A nice donkey on a Midsummer's Night Dream float. And it's second
half has a cool blue head on it's front. I am not sure who that is
supposed to represent but it's very cool, with stars in it's hair.

A nice winged male figure with horns but it doesn't have a name.

The funky truck with the band again. And the art Lincoln.

Sleeping Beauty, nice dragon on the 2nd half.

A nice old hearse with glass sides and a red hot-rod pulling a
calliope, with a band behind that!

Wow, an amazing figure, I don't know who he is, maybe a cold winter wind.

The Dreamer of Dreams float again with a polar bear.

Joseph and his Many Colored Dreamcoat. I thought there were baseball
players in uniform as riders... Pt 2 has a Sphinx

The Wizard of Oz has some cool green heads in the middle. I'm not
sure who either is supposed to represent. And the balloon with Omaha
written on it is a nice touch.

A band in blue stops in front of the camera. The cymbal guys have fun
flashing the cymbals around. One guy passes it under his leg!

Big but not interesting: Jack and the Beanstalk, Romeo and Juliet
amongst others.

A cop car pulls up, the guy gets out and cleans stuff off his
windshield. A band arrives behind him but this guy is in no hurry.
Maybe he couldn't move anyway. I just wonder if he was holding things
up.

Video is jerky throughout here, about 11pm.

A beautiful painted bird was seen on the back what could have been a
Hercules float but I am not sure what it was.

A nice flower face on pt 2 of a float.

The fronts and backs of many of these floats are beautiful and
creative. The middles tacky.

We see a steel band.

The jerky video has an interesting effect as litter gets blown across
the street.

Getting some freeze frames now. (0 fps) 11:09

Audio comes back at 11:10 but only for a second.

People seem to be leaving. People have turned their backs and left
the ladder boxes. Some pick up stuff from the ground.

Yes, the parade is over.