just your average, everyday, run of the mill super/fat tuesday

well, today's the big day. new yorkers and americans of varied stripe trudging to the polls to cast votes in what is, and god i hate to say this because it so reeks of hyperbole, one of the most important elections in our nation's history.

back home, new orleanians and louisianians of varied stripe are trudging drunkenly to and from mardi gras parades. quite the juxtopostion if you ask me.

there was also a ticker tape parade in downtown manhattan today for the super bowl champion giants.

lots of reveling and voting going on today.

people who've never been to mardi gras always ask me questions about mardi gras. being the good ambassador for my homeland that i always try to be, i'll usually respond by saying something along the lines of "oh, it's quite a show" or "something everyone should experience at least once in their lives" before i gently steer them towards visiting NOLA during jazz fest.

truth is, i'm over it. having grown up with it and reveled in mardi gras well into adulthood, i've kind of had my fill. yes, i have had my fun, too much fun, more fun than should be allowed by law. then again, come to think of it, much of the fun i've had isn't allowable by law. but my point being that mardi gras is kind of dead to me.

what's odd about that is that the longer i seem to be away from mardi gras, the less that i miss it. just last year i posted something titled where's my mardi gras kiss britney, one of the first posts on this blog in fact, that shows me still having at least a smidgeon of enthusiasm for the holiday.

maybe it's just that this year mardi gras came too early. wasn't i just celebrating new years eve, LSU winning a national championship and the super bowl? chris rose of the times picayune seems to be afflicted with the same malaise...

I am a broken man, filled with inner conflict -- demons, practically. An imponderable darkness haunts my very existence.

And I'm not the only one. Far from it, in fact. You can tell, walking around this town, you can see it in almost everyone's eyes. The malaise, the apprehension . . . the FEAR.

No one is ready for Carnival.

No one.

regardless, i'm sure that they're a bunch of crazy coon-asses that somehow mustered up the will to party down today and over the past weekend. we always do.

to those folks i tip my hat and offer a "throw me somethin' mista" salute. for the rest of you i offer couple of mardi gras classics via you tube.

first off, some amazing live footage of "big chief," perhaps the quintessential mardi song, with professor longhair and dr. john.



this next video is of harry connick jr. performing another dr. longhair classic, "go to the mardi gras."



happy mardi gras y'all. now go vote if you haven't and elections are being held in your town.


tom cruise/scientology parody from icanhascheezburger.com

this is so damn dumb, but it made me giggle. thus, i share...



thanks to cindy guidry for sending this to me...


asshole bleaching

yet another sign that our collective vanity has run completely amok, you can now buy asshole bleach over the counter. seriously, besides porn broads, who needs this? here's how daily candy is pushing the product...

"Van Morrison wrote the song "Brown Eyed Girl" as an endearing ode to a former love. And while some will always argue that brown eyes are classic, others are looking for a change. It has come to our attention that it is no longer acceptable for your bunghole to be, well, brown. (Yeah, we said bunghole.) And South Beach Skin Solutions has developed a lightening gel that is safe for that sensitive area (no, we have not tried it). The natural product claims to give your poopshooter "a fresher, more youthful look" by making it blend in with your natural skin tone. (Seriously?) Here's how it works: The gentle formula first exfoliates then naturally depigments and whitens the backdoor by reducing the activity of tyrosinase (an enzyme responsible for darkening) in the skin. They claim you'll see results in just a few weeks, or else you get your money back."


(via dlisted)

seriously, what's wrong with an ole brown eye?!

and speaking of browneye, more here...

http://cajunboy.tumblr.com/