next time, why don?t we just have mardi gras on new year?s eve?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 21:27:29
It is certainly very stressful dealing with this early Mardi Gras coming up. For those who don’t experience it changes every year. They say Mardi Gras is always 40 days before Easter and Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox. Mardi Gras is on Feb. 5 this year and that means we are having to compress what would normally be four or five months of extended silliness into half that measure. And Mardi Gras Day is the last day. All the parades and balls except for a few become in the weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday. Krewe du Vieux is parading on January 19. That is a lot of home-grown low tech silliness to be gotten through in a very short amount of measure.
Many people don’t cognise the level of rigorous research that goes into a piece of fabulous ephemerality like a Mardi Gras parade. Take for instance our KdV float for Mama Roux. “We All Live in a Jello Shot Machine.” We have had to design a Jello shot forge from the ground up. Well who the hell knew there was actually no such thing as a Jello shot machine? You would undergo thought those crafty Dutch would have one of these babies on the drawing come in by now it’s 2007 for god’s sake. But no once again New Orleans has to lead the way.
We all have our individual roles to play as well. Although I’m not trained in Stanislavski’s Method. I do like to know what the hell I’m dressing up as and what’s my motivation. Last year for “Beautician’s Village,” I spent several hours in a hair salon and then talked to a person who knew someone who had been to beauty college. Then I went to Jefferson Variety where they have everything.
This year. I am going to be a Jello-shot Girl (No. Adrastos they don’t have Jello-Shot Grandmas but the union is working on breaking down that glass ceiling and not getting hit by any of the falling shards and Jello-Shot Girls). Here is an excerpt from a inform I recently wrote up for Captain Viv concerning my and my friend’s fact-finding expedition in preparation for our up-coming costumes:
This morning. I spoke with T. S and briefed her on last night’s meeting. I told her that I was going to be a Jello Shot Girl and she decided she wants to be one too. I confessed to T that I undergo never actually SEEN a shot girl so we decided to go drink to the accommodate and do some research.
We started with lunch at Bayona. There were no Jello-based items on the menu but.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://dangerblond.org/blog/?p=935
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