My mother wrote today, "Did you Mardi Gras this year?" She loves carnival and promotes its goodness worldwide and in our family directly through the annual bestowing of King Cakes.
This year, I have been happy to see the amount of fermenting on the topic of privatization, secularization, race/class relations, and the use of public space and public dollars for Mardi Gras. I am always quickly saddened by comodification and crass reduction of spirit in the way the media usurps and distorts New Orleans' story. But, I am equally pleased to see the nonplus reminders of vigor as New Orleans gives gas face; blatantly, Dyonisianly; consuming and plundering the moral sentiments of outsiders' regards like a vacant and excessive monarch - bourache en le petit morte
As New Orleans showed very clearly in 2006 six months after Hurricane Katrina. Mardi Gras, her grandness doesn't seek permission, does not cost you anything, is welcoming to all, and is a simple decision to be real to yourself and 'join the parade.' And thank goodness for the debates, the satire, the politicization, the pandering and comic lightness of it all - it is all a very public tradition continued.
Happy Mardi Gras!! Let your good times roll wherever you are!
This year, I have been happy to see the amount of fermenting on the topic of privatization, secularization, race/class relations, and the use of public space and public dollars for Mardi Gras. I am always quickly saddened by comodification and crass reduction of spirit in the way the media usurps and distorts New Orleans' story. But, I am equally pleased to see the nonplus reminders of vigor as New Orleans gives gas face; blatantly, Dyonisianly; consuming and plundering the moral sentiments of outsiders' regards like a vacant and excessive monarch - bourache en le petit morte
As New Orleans showed very clearly in 2006 six months after Hurricane Katrina. Mardi Gras, her grandness doesn't seek permission, does not cost you anything, is welcoming to all, and is a simple decision to be real to yourself and 'join the parade.' And thank goodness for the debates, the satire, the politicization, the pandering and comic lightness of it all - it is all a very public tradition continued.
Happy Mardi Gras!! Let your good times roll wherever you are!
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