The Nazz
12-02-2006, 05:40
I grew up just the other side of the lake from New Orleans, so close in fact that my old high school is being bulldozed because of the damage from Katrina, so it makes my heart glad to see this from my old stomping grounds. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11295973/)
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060211/060211_mardigras_hmed_2p.hmedium.jpg
Yes, that is a blue roof tarp at the bottom of that float.
‘C’est Levee’
Krewe du Vieux has used its parade to mock corporations and politicians every year for the last two decades.
“It’s just we have more material this year,” Twitchell said before the parade, themed “C’est Levee,” a pun on the French phrase “C’est la vie,” meaning “that’s life.”
Floats and props built for the Saturday evening parade in the French Quarter included hand-pulled carts elaborately decorated with blue tarps, fake broken levees, cardboard travel trailers and effigies of Mayor Ray Nagin and Gov. Kathleen Blanco.
One display asked France to buy Louisiana back, suggesting the state might get better treatment than it has from the American government. And in place of a parade map, the Krewe du Vieux had a “projected path” adorned with a swirly hurricane symbol.
I still have close friends there, and I die every time I talk to them about the situation there, but I can't tell you how happy I am to see that the love of life is still abundant in that city.
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060211/060211_mardigras_hmed_2p.hmedium.jpg
Yes, that is a blue roof tarp at the bottom of that float.
‘C’est Levee’
Krewe du Vieux has used its parade to mock corporations and politicians every year for the last two decades.
“It’s just we have more material this year,” Twitchell said before the parade, themed “C’est Levee,” a pun on the French phrase “C’est la vie,” meaning “that’s life.”
Floats and props built for the Saturday evening parade in the French Quarter included hand-pulled carts elaborately decorated with blue tarps, fake broken levees, cardboard travel trailers and effigies of Mayor Ray Nagin and Gov. Kathleen Blanco.
One display asked France to buy Louisiana back, suggesting the state might get better treatment than it has from the American government. And in place of a parade map, the Krewe du Vieux had a “projected path” adorned with a swirly hurricane symbol.
I still have close friends there, and I die every time I talk to them about the situation there, but I can't tell you how happy I am to see that the love of life is still abundant in that city.