Enough Sturm und Drang…laissez les bons temps rouler.
Mardi Gras!
by DougJ| 81 Comments
This post is in: Beer Blogging, Open Threads, Good News For Conservatives
by DougJ| 81 Comments
This post is in: Beer Blogging, Open Threads, Good News For Conservatives
Enough Sturm und Drang…laissez les bons temps rouler.
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mr. whipple
Awesome.
demo woman
Thanks for the post. As much as I tried not to feed the troll, I did. I must go bang my head on the wall and then I’ll listen to the song.
Kryptik
Screw the Sturm und Drang. Give me the Stones and a drink.
DougJ
@Kryptik:
I don’t even like Tumbling Dice on Exile, but this from Montreux is like crack to me (though it has more of a heroin feel, I’d say).
jeffreyw
Some Cajun Chinese food pr0n.
gizmo
That doesn’t seem like Republican music.
John Harrold
This hasn’t hit the front page of google news yet, but I’ve gotten two emails from the university of buffalo saying they’ve evacuated the library on the north campus and classes have all been canceled tonight. There’s a lot of speculation, but it doesn’t look good.
demo woman
@jeffreyw: I lived in LA for a few years and that definitely looks Chinese to me.
I had some Jambalaya today that was awesome but no pictures to share.
demo woman
@John Harrold: Wow.. What do you think?
jeffreyw
@demo woman: LOL, just trying to make it topical. Click here for my adventure today making it.
demo woman
@John Harrold:
from USA Today
mr. whipple
@DougJ:
Love the Mick Taylor years.
Whoa, USA women hockey putting the hurt on Russia.
John Harrold
I don’t know squat, but here are the two emails I’ve received:
SiubhanDuinne
@demo woman:
This is all I could find so far:
demo woman
@John Harrold: google news has it now.. possible gunman. Are you on campus?
jeffreyw
This may be more in keeping with the theme of the post.
Linda Featheringill
Lovely!!
Love that long-hair music!
Let the good times roll.
John Harrold
No I got the emails after I got home.
jeffreyw
Or this. maybe.
demo woman
@jeffreyw: Cruel and unusual punishment. Add a water board with those pictures and you have the means of torture.
demo woman
@John Harrold: Glad your home.
Martin
@John Harrold: That happened where I work about 6 months ago. Turned out it was someone from the dorms heading out to do paintball. Created a hell of a ruckus.
John Harrold
It’s completely possible that they are over reacting.
demo woman
@SiubhanDuinne: Did you visit the post down stairs? BTD was letting us all know how
brightegotistical he is.The Dangerman
Enjoying Olympic curling, not Mardi Gras (seems like a fine sport for drinking heavily while you’re trying to get your opponents rocks off).
Martin
Didn’t mean to sound critical. I don’t fault my employer for the reaction, just that false positives are (not surprisingly) on the increase.
demo woman
@John Harrold: I don’t think it is over reacting. If it looked like a rifle they were doing exactly the right thing.
LuciaMia
Damn, forgot it was Mardi Gras. Course , now we have the long fallow stretch of Lent ahead.
Cat Lady
French is so superior to German when it comes to party time!
ETA: unless it’s about Tea Parties, in which case the speeches are better in the original German/
Mary aka Comrade Mary
Women’s snowboard cross was great this afternoon. It’s like steeplechase without the horses.
EDIT: Yep, Fat Tuesday it is. I’m having Yorkshire pudding instead of the usual pancakes.
John O
Never saw that one, and I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it, but maybe.
That might be just because I wanted to get up and dance, though.
Thanks, DougJ.
PurpleGirl
JeffreyW: Orange chicken is still okay timewise — lunar new year celebration goes on for several days.
Mark S.
It amazes me that such an idiot as McArdle can cause such a ruckus. Why do people give her the time of day?
John O
@Mark S.:
All I can think of when it comes to McArdle is, “Hasn’t everyone met her already?”
She’s one blinded-by-privilege and entitlement young lady.
rootless_e
@John O: Born on 3rd base and convinced she kicked a field goal.
Molly
Young Jane Ayn McArdle, 16, in the throes of teenage rebellion. “I hate you! And when I grow up, I’m going to join the Peace Corp and build schools for AIDS orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa! There’s nothing you can do to stop me, either!”
JenJen
Hurricanes for Everyone! TavernWench recommends leaving out the rum and sticking to SoCo only.
DougJ
@Mark S.:
Don’t get me started.
1. McArdle writes something stupid.
2. Sully links to it
3. Someone intelligent debunks McArdle.
4. ?????]
5. Profit
jeffreyw
Yay! Homer went home with a very happy little girl yesterday!
Laura W
@JenJen: You’re always really nice to me so I’m gonna ask you this: Why the fuck is Mardi Gras now? Isn’t it the first Tues in March, or am I hallucinating again?
5 minutes till Lean Men in Tight Tights on Ice!
Montysano
Dr. John? Meh…..
How about the mighty, mighty Neville Brothers? Or maybe some Snooks Eaglin? Thursday is the first anniversary of Snooks’ death. RIP, Snooks, and thanks for some mindblowing nights.
rootless_e
this is a hot band at montreaux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcyw9QJwfY0
Max
@Laura W: I know you weren’t asking me, but… It’s the Tuesday before Lent begins.
Tomorrow is Ash Weds, the beginning of Lent.
JenJen
@Laura W: As far as Mardi Gras timing, I don’t know, it’s a Catholic thing. Ask them, because I haven’t a clue.
Can’t go wrong with the basic Hurricane, leaving out dark rum. If you don’t plan on remembering this Mardi Gras, then add another 1 1/2 oz of dark (Meyer’s) rum to this recipe. Tall glass, packed with ice, stir, don’t shake:
Have you been watching “Be Good Johnny” on Sundance? Johnny Weir’s reality show? It’s so awesome, I’m actually rooting for him and his ridiculous costumes and flamboyant gayness that sends the Olympic Committee all up in a tizzy.
jeffreyw
Eli’s comin’, hide your heart, girl…
Cat Lady
@jeffreyw:
What a beautiful animal! Those eyes are so warm and smart!
demo woman
@jeffreyw: What a sweet looking dog.
NovShmozKaPop
Thanks so much for that!
On a somewhat related note, my teenaged son has just grabbed my bass and is learning EWF tunes. Doesn’t get much better :-)
Lurker
@Laura W: The date of Mardi Gras falls 41(?) days before Easter, which varies from year to year.
@jeffreyw: — I love the beautiful eyes and expression on that dog.
Phyllis
Anyone else watching the Westminster Dog Show? I’m afraid it’s been overshadowed some by the Olympics. Love the sporting group.
gwangung
@NovShmozKaPop: Well, hell, ya raised him right! Well done!
Mary aka Comrade Mary
Mardi Gras is on a different date every year because Easter is on a different date every year.
Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, which can be March 20 or March 21.
This year, spring starts on March 20, Easter is on April 4, Palm Sunday is one week before on March 28, and the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday, is 40 days before Palm Sunday and starts February 17 (tomorrow).
(I’ll be nice and leave Eastern Orthodox Easter out of it.)
General Winfield Stuck
I still remember my first Fat Tuesday in Biloxi. Went out in the street with everyone else and soon was adorned with about eleventy billion party beads. By the time I left, the shack i lived in was fully furnished with them, as was my car. Party Bead crazy it was.
Comrade Kevin
@demo woman: Quit trying to drag him into every thread, he pollutes enough of them as it is.
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: You’d better hurry up and eat – the bread in your gumbo is going to get soggy!
demo woman
@Comrade Kevin: Sorry… Head hangs in shame.
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl:
Give me a little help with that?
Laura W
@Max: You’d think being born, raised and edumacated Catholic (until the nuns kicked me out after my Junior year in high school for “talking too much in class”), I’d recall that?
As if there were not enough going on this week with the CP store Grand Opening, Valentine’s Day, Pres. Day, Chinese New Year, the Olympics, Mardi Gras, the first day of Lent, some Hindu festival honoring Shiva…tomorrow is my bday too! What a week. Aquarians seem oddly “vocal” on this site.
I like this for my birthday song.
What if we never learn from our mistakes?
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: Yay for Homer! There seem to be only half a dozen dogs at our humane society and they all seem to be black. Is that true where Mrs. J. works?
Also, I haven’t told anyone yet, but I brought two kitties home yesterday. Litter mates. I still cry every day, missing my sweet boy Quiver (gone two months on valentine’s day), but it seemed like time to add more life to the house.
I wasn’t sure how I would do, since Quiver is the only cat I have ever loved, but they are very sweet.
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: No, thank you. I will have the orange chicken, please. I am in C-U, surely you could get it here in time for a late supper.
mr. whipple
@WaterGirl:
Good for you!!
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl: Mrs J says 5 or 6 out of 50 are black at the shelter.
Yay for the litter mates! We did the same thing.
SiubhanDuinne
@Demo Woman #24
Thanks for the ref. Just got home, working my way backwards through the threads. I’ll have a look and see what all the excitement is about.
DougJ
@Laura W:
I had you pegged as an ex-Catholic.
PurpleGirl
In case it hasn’t been answered… Easter is moveable holiday, tied to the lunar calendar. From Wikipedia:
Therefore, Ash Wednesay and Mardi Gras are also moveable holidays.
South of I-10
I haven’t read a damn post, but it’s Mardi Gras and I’ve been drinking since 10. I love all y’all and happy Mardi Gras!
Laura W
@DougJ: Was it the sweat-stained, piss yellow, short sleeved uniform shirt with the brown and yellow plaid skirt that clued you in?
Or my bitter and cynical, passive/aggressive, poorly suppressed, hostile personality that was the give away?
Or maybe I still have the stench of Frankincense on me from the Stations of the Cross?
Neutron Flux
I think it is finally time for cleeks pie filter. Anybody recall how to install that thing?
John Harrold
It looks like it was a false alarm
Max
@Laura W: Happy Birthday in advance!
It would have dawned on you when tomorrow you started seeing people walking around with the ash cross on their forehead.
SiubhanDuinne
@Laura W #67: I’m guessing it was the patent-leather shoes.
@Demo Woman #24: BTD, ho-hum. Now that I read a few of his/her posts, I recognize the style. I haven’t seen anything so far to make me crazy; if anything, I’m a bit bored by the unwarranted pomposity. Mind you, I haven’t yet prowled through yesterday’s BTD wankfest. Off to the archives go I!
Martin
@John Harrold: Good to hear!
DougJ
@Laura W:
Or my bitter and cynical, passive/aggressive, poorly suppressed, hostile personality that was the give away?
This. And I mean that in the best possible way.
DougJ
@Laura W:
And happy birthday.
Laura W
@DougJ: Yes, well, we all have our crosses to bear in this lifetime.
Get it, DougJ?
Is there a more perfect Lent/Birthday Eve joke than that? I think not.
NovShmozKaPop
@gwangung: One is truly blessed to have a kid who is a musician and prefers 1970s/1980s funk to rap.
Mnemosyne
I was very popular at work today — I collected a dollar from everyone last week and brought in a King Cake from the local Cuban bakery. Plus they had a big ol’ bag of day-old Valentine’s Day cookies, so I brought that in as well.
(No, I don’t know why the Cuban bakery makes New Orleans King Cakes in Los Angeles. Just go with it.)
scarshapedstar
I gotta say, after the Super Bowl and the Saints Parade (biggest in New Orleans history, and that’s saying something) and Bacchus… I have Saints Fever. And not in the good metaphorical way. I wish I was out there today but all this partying has taken its toll.
Nevertheless…
WHO DAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LanceThruster
My favorite Cajun music (hopefully makes this post not OT) is the song “‘Parlez-nous à boire’ (‘Let’s Talk About Drinking’), ” by Dewey Balfa from the movie “Southern Comfort” done in a slightly different version here by The Balfa Brothers.
Parlez Nous A Boire – The Balfa Brothers
I wish the Southern Comfort version was available somewhere.
LanceThruster
“Relax, Hardin. These are the good Cajuns.”
Warning on YouTube site about watching if the preparation of hogs for cooking might upset you.
The guy on the triangle is tearing it up! Look at that dance floor bounce.
Hardin: I got reason to be paranoid and so do you.
Truer words were never spoken.
Zuzu's Petals
The Wild Tchoupitloulas rule.