since they said they would.
While waiting to for the parade to start, some guy flashes his chest
quickly as he talks on his cell phone and waves to the camera.
About 2:20 NY time, the parade starts. Theme is All Mixed Up (mixed
drinks). MC, a guy, gets a "get out of jail" card for Plaquemines
Parish. He thinks it may come in handy.
We learn that Thoth should be pronounced as Toeth, not Toth. I wasn't sure.
Mexico NY marching band and color guard teamed up with Chalmette HS.
The Fighting Owls. Un hunh.
We can see the MC in the lower right hand of the screen. He looks
bald, or blond.
He says, "The indefatigable engine of our city, out youth."
On the Tulane band, "they look much too young to be college students."
He asks, "where is my cheat sheet?" It's under your arm, the one
you've got the mic in! I can see it. Soon enough it drops. A couple
of minutes later he finds it.
Stilt walkers! Jerrica is slightly off camera and off mic.
Nice Egyptian bird (Condor?) on the side of one float.
Nice streetcar float. I can see the male host dance. They play When The Saints.
Mt Carmel again.
Cajun Cowboys make their horse walk sideways.
Irish Channel Corner Club, a walking club, apparently has been around
for a long time!
http://www.cornerclubnola.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Gris Gris Strut, who have their own Facebook page.
About 3 pm we lose the audio. About 15 minutes later we get it back
and we are at street level. That doesn't last though and we're back
up on the roof.
Can see Jerrica with her dark hair and sunglasses. She talks of her
brother, a lawyer, who got 250 dozen long stemmed roses to give out
today!
A float gets stuck going around the corner and about 5 minutes later,
the crowd cheers when it starts going again.
The Loyola dance team struts to awful music.
Baker High School plays Rock & Roll pt 2 (like others before it) and
it sounds good! And they look good too.
It is beautiful to see the horses go by.
The Margarita float has a nice face painted on the side, fire in its
eyes and mouth.
I've seen 2 people pick up plastic bags on the street. Are they
neatniks (Yeah1) or do they want to use them for their loot?
More awful music.
Kate, kate@loyola.com, whose been a host before, doesn't like White
Russians because she doesn't like the idea of milk with alcohol. Hmmm.
Our Lady? Academy from Marrero, nice dancers, terrible music.
Girls in red, also, nice dancers, terrible music.
A red car drives by. Its underbody catches a yellow plastic bag and
takes it with it. Will that cause a fire later on?
An Army truck passes by and blasts its horn. The crowd loves it. (Me too.)
Amite High School, looks good, sounds good too but doesn't play long.
Float #20, Mimosa, has a bottle of wine on the front. Hunh? One of
the hosts says, "Now you're being mean" as the riders pelt them. We
lose the audio and then it comes back. One of the hosts gets some
fluffy handcuffs!
About 4 pm NY time, we shift to the street-level cam! It looks SO
MUCH BETTER! We see a nice close up of the float and riders. The
riders are in blackface and are wearing fake tuxedos! Very cool.
Oh La La (Music Company) has a dance team with nice brown outfits
with feather headdresses.
Abdul and the Tentmakers (great name and I've seen them in many
parades over the years) play Mustang Sally and some guy dances behind
them in a brown suit with a pimp hat. Very nice!
The Just Doin' It Band plays Mardi Gras Mambo.
The parade ends at about 4:15 pm NY time.
Nice floats, nice costumes. A good parade.
WDSU is still not on. What's up with that?
Some of the drinks the floats were named after:
Swampwater, Cape Cod, Strawberry Daiquiri, Hurricane!, Grasshopper,
Sex on the Beach, Boilermaker, Margarita, Kamikaze, Fog Cutter,
Singapore Sling, Jungle Juice, Drunk Monk, Blue Hawaii, Rum Runner.
(links for some of these groups to come later.)
Now to have lunch.
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