And...
"Lyme's disease"? Is that what they call it in Minnesota? Here in NY
we call it Lyme disease after Lyme and Old Lyme, CT where it got its
name.
Earlier he had a skit that decried the abuses of language. Ironic
that he did just that a little later on.
Best bit on today's show: The Spring Warning System. 'Had Spring been
arriving, you would have been told. It hasn't.'
I tune in at about 8:30 NY time. WWOZ is broadcasting live from Zulu
they say. Haven't heard anything that would indicate that.
Looking at the earthcam bourbocam. Nobody is walking around in
costume. What's up with that? True, it is 8 in the morning but at
least there should be a few people out there wandering around like
lost souls. (see Bourbocam 2006)
Hey Oh! Huey Piano Smith - Don't You just Know it. Me been drinking!
Ha Ha Ha!
I watch the street cleaning crew clean up near the Bourbocam. Imagine
waking up on Mardi Gras day and going to work to clean up Bourbon St.
Amen for my good life.
The cleaning crews are doing a real good job. Good!
Do what you wanna - Dirty Dozen? No.
A plastic bag blows onto Bourbon St. The street sweeper just went by
but a guy with a broom sweeps it up. Right on!
Oh great, bob French next. New Orleans worst ambassador.
It's 9 am in NO. I don't see anyone in costume on Bourbon St. What's
up with that?
Ok, I see one. And a Sousaphone. Alright.
Bob French comes on nicely. Good morning. Kinda quiet. "Ain't no time
for no violence. Good. You people in NYC, I'm sorry you ain't here.
Well, alright." Now he talks on the phone and isn't aware he is also
on mic.
Seeing more crowds on the Pardadecam.
Bob dedicates this to all the big fat women out there. Ok. Help yourself.
A whole slew of bike riders goes by the Bourbocam.
More costumes. Good.
Whoa. Floats passing by the Paradecam! 10:13 NY time.
Watching a Miller Light truck BACK UP on Bourbon St. No one gets run over.
There are f'ing floats going down St Charles and no one is on the Paradecam.
DSU cam is live. They got Zulu on! An aerial cam but Zulu
nonetheless. 10:18 NY time. "Must have taken many hours to get ready
to go to work today". Expect lots of bad humor on this.
Pete Fountain in the Zulu parade. The DSU woman is yakking away,
rapid fire. I turn them down. Listen to OZ. "If you can't be good, be
good at it."
DSU screen goes black. Iko Iko on OZ. They go black for commercials I
guess. Bands go by but we can't hear them, the hosts are yakking. And
the cam is way too high up.
Mardi Gras Mambo...
Woman says: "You look glazed and dazed", to Bob.
Bob cues up a song and then says I'm not sure if I want to play this song.
DSU hosts are way up on the Hotel De Cirque. A safe distance. Cute
blond. You think you're going to get a coconut way up there?
John Boutte - Mardi Gras Mambo as a real mambo on OZ.
Bunch of big wigs on the Bourbocam. Hi! Blue hair, purple hair...
Another latin song on OZ.
11:23 am NY time. Nothing much going on. Ate some shrimp. (I'm going
to run out WAY before I am satiated.) Now eating pistachios. Zulu
parade going on on the DSU cam but it's too far away. Still nothing
going on on the Paradecam. Bob is playing a sad song about a woman
who misses her lover. Drinking Again.
There's Pete Fountain on the DSU Zulu parade cam which is now street
level. They have audio of it, good. See some nice costumes. Doing
Margie! The great Ray Charles song. One of my favorites by Ray, done
on that live album, Ray Charles Live, a great album. Nice!
The Fantastic Four on the Bourbocam! Bob French playing, That't The
Time I Feel Like Making Love... lol. (Topsy Chapman singing them.)
I need another drink.
McCormicks, the cheaper Bailey's. Nice funky tune on OZ. Bob speaks
then WAY overmodulates, playing Henry Butler - Iko Iko... Easy Bob.
DSU cam shows radar with rain over NO, but not for long.
I see a woman pirate on Bourbon St., with purple legs. As Jeff would
say, hello pretty lady. The Jesus freaks are back! ARE YOU BORN
AGAIN? NO!!!
I thought the Paradecam was going to be on at 10 NO time. It is
almost 12 NY time, 11 NO time and they are still on the roof. No
parade happening though. I take it back, there goes a military band.
And vendors. And riders on horses. And floats. Did someone oversleep?
Nope they have a host but are still on the roof. Lauren is hosting.
"Happy Mardi Gras, sweetheart", heard on OZ.
Nice float on the Zulu parade. Nice drumming on OZ but overmodulated,
seriously overmodulated. Rebirth - On A Mardi Gras Day. We see an
American Indian with head-dress in the reviewing stand on the DSU
cam, Zulu parade. Nonstop parades wherever you look. Mardi Gras
overload!! OZ, Paradecam, DSU cam...
Raining doubloons!, heard on the Paradecam.
Right Time Wrong Place - brass band version. Nice. Overmodulated but
nice. I can look past that. But it is typical of WWOZ production
values. Amateurs. Haven't gotten better in all these years.
(12 pm NY time) Nice black and white tiger on Zulu parade. Incredible
headdresses. Huge.
That looks like Arthur Hardy with the DSU hosts.
Maxing out my computer. Getting nice dribs and drabs of DSU cam
audio, Paradecam audio, OZ audio.
Zulu handing out NutriGrain bars! lol
DSU cam: "This is exhausting." Wimps.
Zulus riding on top of the fire truck. Very white people doing
commentary. "They really go full out into their costumes." Their
problem? They talk too much. Relax and enjoy it.
Whoa. Bourbon St is getting crowded! Well alright. 12 NY time
still... 12: 06 actually.
Nice audio soup. Paradecam, DSU cam, OZ. Very nice.
I sing along with OZ, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
and the DSU cam, and the Paradecam. Nice melange.
Scott, we're multifaceted, Bob French says. Bob says goodbye. Bye
Bob. Paradecam has Laurie and other non-native host. And we DO get
dead air from OZ!! What Bozos. (Where is it, Bob asks.) Clueless
amateurs. Funny. "We are expecting temporary difficulties."
(Experiencing?)
I laugh. OZ still doesn't have it's act together. They never will .
See fire engine on Paradecam.
Gotta roll with it on OZ. The end of Rex on the Paradecam. Elks next.
DSU cam:" We should identify these people." Nice audio soup with all three.
OZ stream stops. Maybe I have too much going on here... Only 91% CPU
use... 12:33 pm NY time.
Very little of any stream getting through now. Only a few dribs of
the DSU cam audio.
Ooh, silence. Can't deal with that. Now we get DSU cam back. "Things
are looking back to good." What the hell does that mean? lol. Mardi
Gras madness.
DSU cam: "Here comes the tribal king." ..."As he tosses out all those
riches, so to speak."
DSU cam: "The stuffed animals. This is what I'm telling you."...
"What's interesting, those backup tractors." lol, these guys are
hilarious. Must be Republicans. Not used to seeing black people. I
crack myself up. "Those girls can dance too." "I'm so jealous of
these girls, I have two left left." Mitchell High School of Memphis,
TN.
OZ is back. 1 pm NY time. DSU cam: Didn't know there were so many
riding clubs around here. Arthur Hardy on DSU cam.
OZ is playing a nice smooth variation on a brass band tune.
DSU cam is on Poydras by One Shell Square. Dr john singing Mama Roux
on OZ! "Wham bam, Hang the ham"
Zulu is only half way through! 1 pm NY times.
"Everybody do your thing. Who knows what tomorrow brings."
Paradecam still with no host, but parade passing by. 1:10 pm NY time.
Inkster High School, Inster, MN. I never knew there was such a place.
I've heard of a Jay Inkster but had no idea there was an Inkster
anywhere.
DSU cam: "A family oriented parade."
Nice evil mouse float on DSU cam. Do What You Wanna on OZ. Gotta
love it. Sure, my computer keyboard is covered with pistachio stains.
I'm having fun. Will clean it all up tomorrow.
Not seeing very many costumes on the Bourbocam.
Looks like a nice band on the DSU cam but they aren't letting us hear
their music.
Do What You Wanna still on. A nice soundtrack to the DSU cam with
their chattering idiots muted. Yeah, you right.
Doin' The ? ? Strut. Front Porch Strut! "Do the front porch strut.
Swing your butt. Swing it to the left, swing it to the right." My new
favorite song. 433 A <-
DSU is showing a Metairie parade... Argus.
So Tom, what was that? He doesn't say!!
Paradecam is still stopped.
Want My Money Back again on OZ. Another version.
Almost time for lunch. Fried catfish. Yum. May have to start that before Rex...
DSU cam : "One of the longest Zulu parades in history. This is
unfortunate." "We're waiting for the king of merriment..." Sure we
are...
A leaning tower or Pizza on one float. "They mean well." as they get pelted.
Arthur: " I feel like I'm doing a hurricane report." "Are we ready to
get toasted", another DSU anchor. Queen of Argus.
Rex is beginning at last. 1:40 NY time. The LSU marching band. Nice
drumming and nice lines but not a NO tune.
Rex comes by. 1:42 pm NY time. Towards the 2000 block of St Charles.
Paradecam is still stuck on a stopped parade. DSU cam has Rex moving
on down.
Riders on Rex? wearing blackface! Some with one eye whitened. Man,
they got balls.
DSU cam: 40 minute delays, Blaine Kern trucks pulling away...
"The only thing that we really have is our funk down by Congo
Square." Mardi Gras indian song on OZ.
2pm Paradecam paradecam is still stuck.
No audio from DSU cam, it's breaking up.
DSU cam: Still waiting for Rex to start. My mind spins.
Rebirth with the Nightcrawlers! on OZ.
Paradecam is finally moving. 2 pm NY time. Is that Elks? (Bad hum on
the Paradecam but we can hear Lauren occasionally. Still on the roof.)
DSU: Arthur?: "My 30th Mardi Gras. Never ceases to be hilarious." DSU
is on Bourbon Street. No, tomorrow they will be hurting... not back
at their desks like any other day. "Now is the time to bring the
family to Bourbon Street." Un hunh.
Warren Easton High School in Rex too.
Bouef Gros!
Streams stop so I restart the computer. Or was it that nap I took...
Rex is by One Shell Square. ~3 pm NY time. Maitre d from the Boston
Club, a black man.
Rex: "We need you all to help us rebuild this city... To my wife,
today you are the other woman and that makes you that much more
alluring."
Arthur Hardy w/ Dr John Oeschner Sr.
Bad hum on the Paradecam, still on roof too, so hard to watch. 3:05
pm, NY time.
Gretna parade a little late. Hah!
Bouef Gras has smoke coming out of his nostrils!
Tributes to rivers, NO pays homage to rivers, the Amazon river is the
next float. Volga the next. Old wagon wheels on this float, not that
many people can see them.
Some nice floats. Mekong river.
"Long time ago we used to knock some heads, Now we knock em dead with
some needle and threads", Mardi Gras Indian song.
Some newbies on OZ.
Tigres and Euphrates river float. Iraq not mentioned. "They didn't
have to dodge heavy quantities of heavy beads." No, they are dodging
something a little more dangerous these days.
River Tiber float, with supposed wolf at the head.
Pipe band, scottish, Scotland The Brave played.
The river Styx.
OZ DJ chastises himself for calling the Mardi Gras Indian outfits
"costumes". They are "suits", like there is any difference...
Congo river float. Atchafalaya river. Not exactly one of the major
rivers of the world but what the heck. An egret has fallen off one of
the floats, stopping the parade.
The river Ganges. DSU host gets hit: "that's not nice." But she gets
him back. Lots of people complaining of getting hit by beads and
stuff. 3:45 NY time
The Nile. Nice dog? head. We hear DSU tv people talking between live shots.
OZ DJ singing along with the Mardi Gras Indians. OZ DJ, "it's
definitely not about Bourbon St and beads." Well, it sort of is.
"You uptown rulers don't give a damn." - Handa Wanda Indian song.
The mighty Mississippi float has a fearsome figurehead.
The Yangtze river, a float I've seen before and loved.
DSU preparing to sign off live so they can show the Ellen deGeneris
show. Paradecam has truck floats but is still on the roof (and has
horizontal lines going up the screen.)
4pm NY time. Bourbocam (Earthcam) shows few in costume.)
DSU continues its web feed with a very high overhead shot of Canal
St. showing floats going up and down the street.
OZ DJs are talking about tipping the street cleaners and waitresses,
one guy says, "don't forget those dancing girls..."Smoke My Peace
Pipe - Wild Tchopitoulas.
Good to see the (Palm?) trees on Poydras have survived. They look magnificent!
4:33 pm NY time. Things are kinda winding down. OZ is playing slower
stuff. The DSU cam is showing the high aerial shot of Canal St. The
Paradecam's parade is done. I think it is time for me to have lunch.
Catfish here I come.
5 pm NY time. I see trucks not moving on Canal St on the DSU cam.
Lots of people on the Bourbocam. Nothing much on the Paradecam. Time
to kiss that one goodbye. See you next year. It's been great.
So, for me it might as well be over. I'll keep watching the Bourbocam
and the aerial Canal St DSU cam till I go out tonight. I'll be going
out to see a local band do jazz/NO funk. Could be good. Could be
disappointing. We'll see.
Happy Mardi Gras y'all.
PS I tune into the Bourbocam (earthcam...) to watch the cops clear Bourbon St. They sweep through rapidly. I was heartened to see people APPLAUDING the police, the street sweepers, etc as they walked/rode by. In my day, the mid 70s, we didn't respect the cops because they were out of control. To see people applauding them now is heartening.So tonight, it's
Proteus - 6:15 p.m. and Orpheus - 7 p.m. (NY times) (DSU said Zeus
too but we never see it.)
I tune in at 6:04 NY time. DSU cam has reporter. Paradecam is still
on the roof.
Jeff is on Paradecam. "Bloggers have been mentioning you, Meredith,
too." I have... Others?
People walking around in shorts so the weather must be nice. Arthur
Hardy next on DSU. We see Arthur reacting to whatever they are saying
in the studio. He talks. When done, a beauty shot...
Watching people standing around eating, drinking, talking on cell
phones before the parade starts.
DSU guy white balances the camera on a guy's shirt?
See flambeaux with lights arranged vertically. Haven't seen that before.
Hear the train whistle from down by the river. Ah nostalgia.
6:30 NY time and no sign of any movement. We can see the first float
in the DSU cam. Now hear a siren. The parade is moving.
Flambeaux moving up. The DSU cam is only just around the corner from
the Paradecam so is slightly ahead of the Paradecam.
20 floats. Realms of Enchantment the theme. DSU cam has a good spot.
First float after the captain is nice, green Proteus, nicely done.
Poseidon (Pronounced Po-sigh'-den not Posaden). A flambeaux shouts
Happy Mardi Gras.
Nice faery float coming up. Well, at least the faery is nicely done.
The rest of it is poorly painted. A nice figure on the very end I
see. (That may be on another float. It's hard to keep track...)
I missed a big fish float.
Proteus had a lot of family troubles...
Did I see one of the black band members in whiteface?
This float is waddling up, the figurehead seems to be pulling it.
(The Cyclops! I later hear.)
Paradecam guy reads James Joyce!
Nice to hear the weather is nice.
The (St James) Wildcats conveniently stopping in front of the
Paradecam. I noticed the cymbal player jazzing it up too. The tuba
player giving it alot of body English. Cymbal player really showing
off! Now they all gyrate.
DSU reporter getting ready to go live, on cam.
Damian wants to get an organ transplant from one of these guys! The
band shakes it up. Band finally moves off.
Float #11, nice figurehead.
Beautiful blue sky shot on the DSU cam.
Nice leprechaun figurehead on this float.
Jeff thinks that I might know who is who. Nope. I'm just following
your lead and writing down as much as I can. But thanks for the
reference! It's nice to be mentioned. And fun to see who is looking
at the blog!
Crystal Caverns, cool figurehead. I would have guessed it was an
alien but Jeff has a better view.
DSU reporter is doing her on-cam thing. A beautiful float
(figurehead, an old man) passing by her.
Sunflowers on this float. Gilded Gardens it's called.
Fire engine on the DSU cam. 7:18 pm NY time.
(I do watch the streetcar cam occasionally...)
St Charles Streetcar Band again.
Proteus is done. (~ 1 hr) after it started. 7:22 NY time.
The view on Bourbon St is familiar but we sure miss the Bourbocam and
it's hosts. All those interviews. The whole scene. Now all we see is
a silent mass of people moving around, jerkily, very slow motion.
Orpheus 7:30 pm NY time
Paradecam is going but DSU cam is bluescreen. Are they done?
Eating dinner as I write, we see a Trojan horse float! The DSU cam is back.
Paradecam video camera is acting up, giving strange but beautiful
colors and having other technical problems. 7:40 pm NY time
St Aug band coming up on the DSU cam.
Some nice spotlights coming up on the DSU cam. Very cool effect
seeing the light in the trees.
Original Lady Buck Jumpers/Steppers struttin' front of the cam.
O Perry Walker wearing white pith helmets!
They ran out of Hummers and now have golf carts! (Good, I hate Hummers.)
Gorgeous effects with the searchlights on the DSU cam.
Paradecam has been better but still has some video problems.
Damian: Palm trees?
Float goes by Pitt St so DSU cam is by Pitt and Napolean.
Wow, a very bright float approaches on the DSU cam.
Have a steam train float but haven't seen Smokey Mary yet. Oh, that
is her. 6 floats long! Wow. Let's watch this go around the corner.
Smokey Mary has all kinds of American flags on her. We hear the
whistle but she isn't smoking much that I can see.
Bachalopter? I thought it was the Bacchussaurus? Paradecam is acting
up, strange colors.
Wow, an incredible white float coming up on the DSU cam, 2 sections,
full of feathers or what looks like feathers. Might be flowers.
Another cool gremlin with a blue shirt coming up on the DSU cam. And
a nice owl.
Kids marching on the DSU cam. Not in uniforms or at least it looked
like it (they do on the Paradecam). Then a band.
Jiminy Cricket and a large sun behind him.
Paradecam is all video noise now. Audio is fine. 8:31 pm NY time.
Bee on the Stinger float. I like the arch of flowers on it too.
We hear the Paradecamers catching beads.
Lots of nice close-ups of the riders on the DSU cam. The crowd is
very close to the float on the DSU cam.
Paradecam video is f'd up. 8:41 pm NY time (before and after the tape
change.) OK now but not for long.
Unmasked riders on the Coast Guard air rescue float with the
helicopter on the back.
I watch the DSU cam cuz the Paradecam video is too bad. Audio is
fine. (I think there is something wrong with the camera or the
transmission from it to the receiver.) Internet connection is fine
for both. DSU cam, not surprisingly since they are a TV station, has
had a great picture throughout Mardi Gras. Not always the best
position but best picture quality. And good audio when they use it.
Nice Neptune? float coming up. Paradecam fine now!
How are the high school seniors marked? The hosts are noting the
seniors often so they must be marked somehow.
Cool dragon coming up on the DSU cam. Fabulous! The best decorated float yet.
I agree. It's not quite the same when the Ford blows its horn
compared to the train!
Band in red making a good noise on the DSU cam.
Dragon looks great on the Paradecam, smoke everywhere.
Wow, a white creampuff of a float.
DSU cam is blue screen now. 9 pm NY time.
Here's the white creampuff. A green dragon as its figurehead.
Well alright, biodiesel!
Paradecam is now blue screen. Both are blue now. 9:05 pm NY time.
Good, they realize there is a problem. This is so much better than in
previous years when they would go on without doing anything about it.
Glad they still have audio.
The DSU cam is blue screen and doesn't look like it is coming back so
goodbye, DSU.
Paradecam is still on the roof. 9:15 pm NY time.
Good, the audio gets better on the Paradecam. We have radio at this
point with the cam up on the roof.
The hummingbird? Not the restaurant...
End of Orpheus. Very nice. Tomorrow starts at 10 (NO time for the Paradecam.
We hear anchor live, before they are on cam.
Paradecam is on the roof still.
She throws to Camille. Behind the scenes of live tv...
Parade doesn't look ready but who knows when it will start.
(6:15 NY time) Two motorcycle cops just went by and I see some
blinking lights and hear more sirens, but now that's stopped... Oh
well.
More sirens. Here we go. Lots or people in wheelchairs here. We may
be near a hospital. Sirens stopped. Now started again. Now stopped.
(6:19 NY time) Paradecam switches to the street level. No host yet.
(Paradecam has audio hum...)
DSU cam will be AHEAD of the Paradecam...
Crowd on DSU cam cheers.
Anchor says some bands are still unloading, so will be more delays.
(6:25 NY time)
Meredith of nola.com comes on. "We're excited about Hulk Hogan." Un hunh. lol.
DSU cam goes blue screen but is ok shortly after.
Marching band. Marines probably, playing the Marine Hymn. 1st float
is going by. DSU cam is not changing position.
See some flambeaux. Now DSU cam moves. Nice shot of masked riders
moving closer.
Paradecam is going to the roof but little do they know the parade is
on it's way.
There's Hulk. Dad by ladder does Hulk poses!! Hulk throwing casually.
People might be booing! He definitely wasn't into it.
Paradecam is blue screen, now ok.
Lots of flambeaux!! These flambeaux carriers have propane containers
on their backs!!
Nothing has reached the Paradecam yet. (6:43 NY time)
Nice marching band on DSU cam. St Aug? Purple Knights so yes.
"Beads crushing under your feet are like fall leaves..." Meredith.
Sort of. If your leaves are real crunchy.
Meredith wonders if they sleep in the big cop van when they're on
stakeouts. Another guy points out that having Police written in big
letters on the van probably eliminates that idea.
People waving to the cops. Angola Prison rodeo...
Some nice close-ups on the DSU cam. Some guy on the Bacchus float
signing throws.
DSU audio cuts out. (6:53 pm NY time) but comes back soon. The parade
has stopped. Guy is signing a shirt now.
Meredith is a roller girl. (Her audio is a little low now, compared
to everyone on this cam being really loud normally. She was loud
earlier so I guess someone turned her down.)
Hulk hasn't rounded the corner by the Paradecam yet.
Here we go.
Nice dancers going by, in black. Band behind them. Good audio from
DSU cam. 7 pm NY time
Confetti! Two tigers. Louie Louie! Unmasked riders on this float. LSU
float. National champs in something.
How many toes have been run over by police cars trying to clear
people from the street. 1st float, riderless, is for Harry Lee. They
really worshipped him down there. I don't know why. Black bunting on
the float.
DSU stream looks nice. A little jerky but nice. 7:06 pm NY time
Paradecam guy catches a miniature Harry Lee magnets. Very weird!
We see some marchers turn onto Napolean on DSU cam. Floats come up Napolean.
Nice band! Red outfits.
Wow, a big white French Quarter float, the 4-parter?! Hey Pocky Way
plays! Then Going To The Mardi Gras.
This is like watching two different parades. Where's Hulk on the
Parardecam?! 7:12 pm NY time
Here he is. Meredith goes nuts. Paradecam miss him by not pointing
high enough up.
Meredith discovers making flirty eye contact gets her throws.
Statue of Liberty float. Some cowboy types in the middle and a ladies
leg on the back. Not sure what the theme was there.
St Aug parade leaders walk backwards!
Nice effect to see the confetti and the searchlights.
Peace sign on this float!
Beautiful red float coming up. Big heart and hearts all over. Cupid
ready to shoot his arrow. That is a well designed float. Hearts like
strawberries.
Great band beat! O Perry Walker. Bravo! (Maybe this is on the DSU
cam though so I don't know who the band is there.)
Cool dancing on the Paradecam. O Perry Walker there.
Budget truck. Somebody moving in the middle of the parade?
Guy just got 4 bags of beads! His old boss.
Star Wars float.
Nice band, 7:56 NY time. Thundering drums. Then Led Zeppelin
dirigible on float. Bee Gees on the end. WTF?
Band with straw hats! St Paul's High school.
Star Wars float reaches the Paradecam 8:15 pm NY time. Spectacular
dinosaur on the DSU cam!
I rejoin things after dinner 8:30 NY time
Bands conveniently stop in front of either cam. Great sound from the DSU feed.
Beautiful alligator float on the DSU cam.
We have smart hosts on the Paradecam for a change. Not that I think
Jeff isn't smart but compared to the other usual hosts, Meredith and
friends are a pleasant change.
DSU cam goes blue screen suddenly, losing audio too. (8:38 NY time) I
miss it...
What a scream! As the Bachussuarus passes by. (Took 1/2 an hour to
get to the Paradecam.)
DSU cam is back but now is a high overhead shot with static for audio
(and some on the video). They are probably almost done with their
feed though there is still plenty of parade by them. Getting some
cool effects from the searchlights maxing out the camera... Kind of
like the aurora around the sun.
DSU cam is black cuz the lighting is so low. We see only a light or two.
Nice overhead shot from the Paradecam too. Still getting audio from
them. Now we're back to street level. There goes the gator. Saw that
about 20 minutes ago on the DSU cam.
No audio from the Paradecam now. 9:01 pm NY time. (Seeing street
level view.) The DSU cam has a truck on it. Done for them?
Audio is coming back, but breaking up, on the Paradecam. Here we go.
Yeah, those are the street cleaners on the DSU cam. Audio is ok on
Paradecam now.
Misimpression is only a word while Bush is president. Hopefully after
that we go back to reality as we used to know it.
Ick. The Spice Girls. The hum comes back.
I stop the DSU cam
Guy they are interviewing, 'I know where the adult fun can be found.
He feels good about the country that families can have fun like
this.' We know how you feel bro.
Float 25 out of 31 here. A beautiful woman.
Cool, throwing beads into the exhaust pipes of the Mardi Gras tow
truck! Nice diesel horn. Other woman host needs a doorbell like that.
CSI float. Ick. "Lust" written after it.
It's done. See you tomorrow.
Paradecam (works now and) is still on the roof. And people are marching!
12:07 NY time, Paradecam switches to handheld. Jeff again. great!
(Nothing happening on DSU cam)
This is Okeanos. New Orleans Past and Future, Back To The Future. 17
floats for this parade.
Dominican cheerleaders and talk of gods/sacrifices...
DSU cam has parade now. A nice white Roman-stylle villa float stopped.
Queen of Okeanos passes by the Paradecam. (12:16 NY time)
Chappelle High Steppers have lots of "protection".
Okeanos frisbee.
(I think the DSU cam is ahead of the Paradecam. Am seeing the
streetcar. (Paradecam stops but starts again...) float, St Charles
Streetcar band, singing Prof Longhair's Going To The Mardi Gras. I
saw another streetcar float on the DSU cam abit before.)
It's raining stuff. (We hear them get bombarded.) Aquarium
float.(Audio drops out)
Parade is stopped on DSU cam. Now moving. See cowboy on float. (12:30 NY time)
Paradecam has stopped but it starts again eventually. Then stops. May
have to drop it. It comes back.
Indians on horses.
Change in LA license plates!
Fire engine on DSU cam. (12:35 NY time)
Talk of Roy Scheider... boring. Christopher Walken - renaissance
man... can't get enough....
Here comes the fire engine so DSU cam is ahead of the Paradecam. I
suspect by the corner of Perrier and Napolean. (12:39 NY time)
King and other floats are behind fire engine?!
This parade does not use electricity on their floats when usually
parading at night. Only flambeaux. Got to see that in person.
(DSU cam is blue screen now.)
Officers/official knights. M'Lasses, ah. Translucent cups.
Float #3, so this is a new parade? Ah, this is Babylon.
12:55 NY time, paradecam stops then starts.
12:59 NY time we see a blue satyr w/ a bow (and arrow I suppose)
float on the DSU cam.
Here it is on the Paradecam, 1:03 NY time. Sagitarius. Fire engine
behind it. Wait. The satyr is still sitting stopped at the DSU cam
and that cam is live! Hmm... Now I'm confused. There's the fire
engine. So the DSU cam is after the Paradecam? Like, a few feet past
it?
Now a break on both cams. Paradecam is holding up well despite some
starts and stops. DSU cam is good. No audio on it but good steady
stream. Better picture quality than the Paradecam. But the Paradecam
has hosts and people like Jeff are worth listening to. His
accomplices, while smarter than the usual, are not worth listening
to. At least they aren't screaming like some of the other accomplices.
(Might as well post this since there is a break in the action.)
I will watch whatever parades will be on...
I am checking out WWOZ. I am not sure if I missed
the New Birth Brass Band. I think I did.
From WDSU's website:
>Watch the following parades live on WDSU.com:
>
>Friday, Feb. 1, 6 p.m.: Hermes, Krewe D'Etat, Morpheus, Muses
>
>Saturday, Feb. 2, 11 a.m.: Isis, Tucks
>
>Saturday, Feb. 2, 4 p.m.: Endymion
>
>Sunday, Feb. 3, 11 a.m.: Okeanos, Thoth, Mid-City, Babylon
>
>Sunday, Feb. 3, 5:15 p.m.: Bacchus
>
>Monday, Feb. 4, 5:15 p.m.: Proteus, Orpheus, Zeus
>
>Fat Tuesday: WDSU.com will stream WDSU's
>coverage of Mardi Gras live from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Good. I look forward to them
(HI to BourboJeff for mentioning my blog!! I'll
have to be on my best behavior, which is
challenging since the Paradecam is pooping out so
often...)
WDSU cam and Paradecam are working fine. No audio from the paradecam yet.
Hermes getting ready to go. Woman hosting on DSU.
I've the 2-cam switched feed going here, Nice!
(DSU has a Bourbon St cam but it is very high
above the street. I miss the Bourbocam.)
Woman w/ trooper. Audio is very low level. (Paradecam is back on the roof.)
Almost as if on cue, the marching band starts in.
The DSU cam has no view yet. Paradecam is still
on the roof but we can see the parade.
Paradecam has audio and host. BourboJeff? Good
level. Arthur Hardy is on cam on DSU cam but not
speaking and we're not getting their audio.
Sounds like BourboJeff. I'll probably keep both
audios on unless it gets too confusing.
DSU is missing the parade.
BourboJeff: "Back before electricity, New Orleans only got it recently..."
New float: the garden of earthly delights.
"Hermes, God of Commerce. Something NO really likes."
DSU cam is airing white noise. DSU cam is BEHIND
the crowd. Behind the tall ladders so they won't
be able to see anything. Will this change? They
can only see what is above the crowd. Bad...
I catch Blaine getting hit with some beads. He is oblivious!
Cupid and who? are the theme this year.
Girls being escorted by nuns... not costumers in nun's outfits.
Nice dancing from girls in blue.
The birth of Dionysus. (He butchers it.)
DSU audio is real low. Paradecam audio is a bit hot.
Shaw next.
95 floats tonight! Float #7 passes by.
Beautiful white dove float! The goddess plots revenge. (40:00)
Paradecam is not handheld and is mostly staying in one position. That's ok.
DSU cam is blue screen now but the stream is still working.
Oracle of Apollo.
We see Hermes doubloon.
Great dragon float.
DSU cam is back. See kids waving for beads behind
the crowd. Nice shot now from higher up. Whoa,
now they get really loud audio.... Mostly noise.
Nice Hermes throw. LA women vs TX women...
DSU cam is good now. Way up above the crowd.
Got you some titty beads?
Good dancing from band in white (55:34)
I'm guessing the DSU cam is abit downriver of the
Paradecam. It used to be slightly above the
paradecam. (Or else it it is WAY upriver. I'm
seeing on the Paradecam what might have been a
float I already saw on the DSU cam.)
Things seem to be done at the DSU cam. I'm seeing
vendors on the street whereas on the Paradecam
the parade is still going on. So the DSU cam must
be Uptown of the Paradecam.
Float 23. Rams with Golden Fleeces. (See LA State Police van on DSU cam.)
Talking Greek/Roman/Egyptian influences.
See Clydesdales on DSU cam.
Nice marching (1:15:35)
People walk faster than 15 minutes a mile...
Float 26. Psyche?
Paradecam has blue screen. Now is ok.
Float 27: Pleasure. Daughter of the lovers. "She
looks a little stoned on this float."
See fire engine on Paradecam. One drunk woman on mic.
Jeff got married recently. Spent the honeymoon in Gatlinberg, TN.
Krewe d'Etat coming up next. (Seeing LA State
Poice van on Paradecam so DSU cam is WAY uptown
of the Paradecam.)
NASCAR, no thanks.
See Clydesdales on Paradecam... (DSU cam's parade
is not moving so it will be along time before it
gets to the Paradecam.)
Nice skeletons!
D'Etats Dirty Dishes flyer held up to cam. Jeff
gets on cam. Great skeleton heads!
Parade is moving on the DSU cam. Big green float.
Tulane marching band.
Title float, E'Tat's Dirty Dishes.
DSU cam is rewinding! Now stuck on still.
Both cams are f'd up now. Now fixed.
Hilton float on DSU cam (8:41 NY time)
Paradecam shows Jen talking to husband on the phone.
Looks like Hilary on the float on the DSU cam now.
Guy with float sign but no float!
NC girl.
Hilton float passes Paradecam 10 minutes after it
passes the WDSU cam. OK. Now I have my bearings.
Nice drumming from marching band passing by P-cam.
Hillary float passes p-cam.
Lauren's husband is from South Dakota. His first
Mardi Gras. Lauren runs the ? watch on nola.com?
US Sin-Ate float.
Bush Whack float. "Regardless of your political
lean, if you don't have a sense of humor, not a
good place to be right now."
Half baked Alaska float. Energy/environmental.
Giant martini glass float on DSU cam.
(9:08 NY time) We lose the audio for the
Paradecam . Stream stops. I restart it. It looks
like it won't start. It thinks I have network
problems.
City Hall float on DSU cam.
Paradecam is out and I can't change players
because they don't offer that choice on the
windows I am getting. STUPID! I usually have that
choice but not now. I'd switch over to the
MediaPlayer feed but IT ISN'T BEING OFFERED.
DSU cam scene is stopped. Now it moves.
Paradecam is back. Martini glass is passing by. (9:28 NY time)
Paradecam is moving some, handheld?, so it covers what is happening better.
Seeing vendors on the DSU cam so that is the end of Krewe d'Etat.
Nice fluorescent lights on the Navy float.
Fire roasted pig = Don Imus!
Float 18...
Paradecam stream stops again... Can't start it. Goddamit!
I quit the RealPlayer again and it works. Jeff is
talking about pagans loosing Saturnalia to the
Christians! Heathens, thus came carnival. The
abridged Carnival as told by Jeff.
Mobile AL vs NO's Mardi Gras.
See fire engine on Paradecam.
Stream stops again. I have to quit it to get it
back. Morpheus next. (9:39 NY time)
No parade on the DSU cam yet so it's gonna be
awhile.... Just seeing the cop car now.
Plushy pervs. Like Jon Donley.
DSU cam audio is very low.
Paradecam vs Bourbocam. I miss Reese.
DSU cam has parade flowing.
GD Paradecam has stopped again.
Nice dancing, Helen Cock High School. Harvey, LA.
Nice marching band antics.
GD Paradecam keeps stopping. I have to quit it
and restart it to get it to work. What a pain.
(And a constant problem with watching and
listening to Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest.)BourboJeff
remarks on my blog!! Thinks I see blog on how the
media treats it. Well, sort of. It is more just a
log of what I see that I have tried to make a
little more readable, lately. Thanks, Jeff!
(Calls me lipwok.)
Shot of Fat Harry's!
Parade is stopped. King of Morpeus is still sitting there.
Paradecam stopped again.
Finally King's float moves. King Jerry.
RealPlayer stops again. Godamn it.
(RealPlayer started again) Nice cat float.
I'd be cool to see the truck floats lined up on
River Road. Anyone got any pics of that?
(RealPlayer stops again. I have to quit it and
restart it to get it going again.)
Funny Pope story!
GD RealPlayer stops again. ****! This is
happening every couple of minutes or so. VERY
frustrating. The DSU cam has been pretty stable.
10:45 NY time. Talking about Barkus parade. I
missed it too and don't seem much of anything
good on the net of it. The video was very
disappointing. Some good pics, especially one by
Jon Donley of that little dog with the jester's
cap on! (Which I think is from last year?)
"Do you know the Mr Bingle jingle?" and then the
GD RealPlayer stops again. Very tiresome to a)
quit it and restart it and b) write about it.
(10:49 NY time)
"That nun has a beard!... All the nuns have extra
parts." Jeff yelling out hey, pretty lady.
Now DSU cam has blue screen but is still streaming.
I see lots of blue flashing lights in the crowd. Cool.
Float 19, Hollywood South. 10:53 NY time. Now
RealPlayer stops again. I really am a masochist...
DSU cam still blue screen. Muses up next. 10:56 NY time
10:57 DSU cam is back up. Paradecam has stopped.
I can't take it anymore. I'm gonna watch only the
DSU cam. Sorry Jeff.
We see butterflies on poles. A giant purple slipper!
(I will listen to the Paradecam but won't watch and won't care if it stops.)
Penis police and Beadwhores partying together!
Rollergirls go by.
PC stops again. 11:05 NY time.
Woman got kissed by the Roller Girls.
Very cool flashing Muses shoes on poles!!
St Augustine band. (Sound is uneven but you get the idea.)
Guest Muse is Marva Wright! Well, alright.
(RealPlayer stops again. 11:10 NY time.)
There she goes sitting in the pink shoe!
Nice marching steps, Warren Easton Sr High. Nice band too.
26 floats in the Muses parade tonight. 768 riders.
(RealPlayer stops again. 11:15 NY time.)
Cool Bathtub float! With bubbles!!
Title float: All That Glitters? Jeff despairs,
not knowing the title. So close...
RP stops, 11:19 NY time.
Stilt walkers! Very cool! Dressed in black.
Some nice floats on the DSU cam. A house or tower
on one float. (When will we see you again, it
says.)
Nice throw with the mirrors on it.
Literally hitting on him!
Nice dancing girls in white. 11:25 NY time.
Czar Wash? float! (on the DSU cam) PC has stopped again, 11:26 NY time
The "When will I see you again" float arrives at
the Paradecam 11:32 NY time. Dedicated to the
contractors helping rebuild..." (Paradecam stops
so it is cut off!)
Good art on them? They look pretty crude on the webcam.
Czar Wash arrives, 11:36 NY time.
11:39 RP stops. DSU cam has blue screen. Hmm.
Wow, cool throw! (Psychedelic)
We see Elvis's on bikes go by! The Krewe of Elvis.
11:43 RP stops. DSU cam still has blue screen.
(Turning my firewall off. Maybe that will help.)
DSU still has blue screen.
The pink slips.
11:49 RP stops. DSU cam still has blue screen.
Chicks with wigs dancing! Nice! Or are those
helmets? Awful music but cool to see them all
dancing.
So, it seems to be that RealPlayer is stopping
every 5 minutes. Why? (Still blue screen with the
DSU cam. I guess I'll give up on them.)
Come on down to Fat Harry's to see this chicks bare ass...
Cameltoe steppers!!
"Daddy, who was the captain of Bacchus, Hi Daddy..."
All female brass band? (We don't hear them...)
I could do without this chick helping out.
Krewe d'Etat sounds like crudite! I always
thought it was a play on coup d'état...
Great. The Bearded Oysters! Love em!
RP dies again.
The Molassies!
Bad Girls, float 20.
We lose audio on the Paradecam, 12:13 NY time.
Pic is still working, for now. Audio comes back.
The chick says: "Mardi Gras tests the hand to eye
co-ordination of the natives." Good one.
Family Gras?
Float 25.
"I'm all about feminism. I love Muses. But these
girls can't throw!" Another good one from the
chick.
The parade ends. "Vendredi Gras." Another good one.
Bye all. Paradecam starts up at 11 tomorrow, 12 NY time. (2 hrs for this one)
Police mobile command center sets off at about 2:15, See a military
Humvee go by. DSU cam is on the wrong side of the street! See
motorcycles go by. Dune buggies throwing throws. I provide my own
soundtrack as the marching band goes by. Float! Throwing tons of
crap. Fish on front. (Carpi Sun?) Lots of overarm throwing. I thought
that was illegal? Stream getting a little jerky. Dancing girls are
mimicked by watchers.
I switch to the (nol.com) Paradecam. it is on the correct side of the
street and has sound. Fun, not obnoxious hosts, a guy and a girl. Not
sure how old the girl is, sounds young. There's a better quality
picture on the DSU cam but better POV on the paradecam and it has
sound. (They are both on the same corner, but the DSU cam is on the
NW corner.) And the DSU cam is several seconds behind the paradecam.
Gold Dusters dancing away. Woman announcer is an adorable blond....,
I switch DSU cam to tv and leave paradecam on. Now can tab between
the two, keeping the audio going! 2:57 my time
Shangra La
Using RealOne player but it is using up more of my CPU than
RealPlayer was. DSU feed is stuttering more. (I don't think it is me.)
Starts 3:17 my time. I have a two cam switched feed! lol Can't get
the Real feed to go full screen though. Now I have a two-cam split.
Not bad.
A kid comes up to the paradecam, "I'm Aiden. I'm from the great city
of New Orleans!" Well, alright!
Cool, both are full screen! (Use on screen control on RealPlayer) but
then I don't get to watch the QT player at all. Guy is talking
off-mic but we can hear him. Audio for the marching bulldogs is very
distorted. DSU feed is very jerky now.
Lots of marching band's dancers using a hop step. (Higgins High
School) Haven't seen that before. Male flag wavers? Skipping too.
AE Breedy says hi to wife in Seattle.
Imperial Children, from China?
I switch to the DSU cam for the floats, to the paradecam for the bands/flags.
Mt Carmel Carmelettes.
Woman host gets hit by beads, it hurts, she laughs.
Ice cream truck music while watching marching band.
Must be woman host's first Mardi Gras. She asks why the parades stop
in the middle.
Good looking high school dancers, mostly blond, with terrible music.
(Before Land of the Matador float)
"Lotta dance companies from Kennah (Kenner)".
(35% CPU!)
Different dance steps. Leaping, one foot hops.
DSU cam has stopped. 4:25 pm my time I restart it.
Big Easy Rollergirls.
Vietnamese Young Leaders of New Orleans dragons!, Riverside Ramblers.
Sparta at 6, paradecam signs off. 4:30 my time. DSU cam still going.
Still more floats! Maybe I'm seeing reruns... I am.
On restart, I see Pygmalion has been rescheduled. I give up as player
won't play. They have probably stopped the feed.
We'll see if the video ends up on the internet. It isn't up yet.
The WDSU feed looked good! (Quicktime) A little mottled but not bad
and a good strong stream, good internet speed.
(What I saw in the order it came in )
The cameraman yelled at people to get out of the way. A menora. Lots
of pirates. The cult of landscaping. Lots of Egyptian outfits. People
covered w/ cash. A good brass band by the record player float. Single
sperm cells on sticks. A smoking gun float. A devil float w/ ex-Mayor
Morial's (and other's) pics on the side. A float as Senator Vitter's
family values meal (Wendy's parody). A woman who was going as a
shit-head said "When life gives you poo, make mushrooms!" Lots of
mushrooms. Skeletons. We all live in a Jello-shot machine float (a
parody of the Beatles Yellow Submarine). A paper-mache' guy getting
an enema on one float. A girl gave the camera some beads and kissed
it. (Love is in the air!) A kaos sign. A woman is interviewed. Her
group are the LRA (Louisiana Recovery Authority). The theme - "You
never give us the money" (spoof of the Beatles song) the theme of the
parade this year being the Magical Misery Tour. She said "People are
miserable but it is still a great place to be." (God bless her and
those trying to make NO come back.). The parade had passed by at this
point. They then interviewed a kid. His favorite part of the parade?
The penis tank! They interview a couple. They interview a guy named
Greg, "The parade was fast cuz it was cold." His favorite part:
Spermes, a spoof of Hermes. The WDSU techies talked for awhile.
So, not quite like the Bourbocam but not bad. No constant yakking
like the Boubo/Paradecam hosts but they did do some properly
journalistic interviews. I am looking forward to the rest!
Eh la bas!
More info on the Krewe du Vieux here:
From a comment he made on another Flickr pic, the photographer, 
"Can't think of any other place I'd rather be... Though I'm sure the playful and provokative adolescence of Krewe du Vieux might put some people off... that's part of what I love about this place. Pushing the boundaries of free speech and having a great time without trying to be something we're not..."
Amen.Check out the Brass Bands in this parade!
* Kirk Joseph
* Trombone Shorty
* Treme Brass Band
* Paulin Brothers Brass Band
* Stooges Brass Band
* Free Agents Brass Band
* Hot 8 Brass Band
* James "12" Andrews
* Da Truth Brass Band
* Rebirth Brass Band
* Panorama Brass Band
* The Jazzmen
* Charles Joseph
* Down N Dirty Jazz Band
* The Soul Rebels
* New Birth Brass Band
* Bone Tone Brass Band
Most of the best brass bands in NO!
The ball afterwards features:New Orleans, Mon Amour indeed.
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