Happy Mardi Gras!

I've got two King Cakes, about 3 gallons of gumbo, a big pot of Red Beans and Rice, a couple of bottles of Root Beer with foam on top ... lots of "chank-a-chank" music on the stereo, some beads and doubloons to throw around (yesterday in anticipation I swept them up off the floor from last year)

Here is some footage of my very first Mardi Gras .. watch for the guy shaking the tambourine at the 4:36 mark of the video.

Thanks to my cousin Kathy in San Diego for digging this film out of the family archives and to my other cousin Marcus for posting it on You Tube.

Laissez Le Bon Temps Rouler!

Link to: Mardi Gras In New Orleans

Traitors?

The world is abuzz by the recent revelations by the Obama Administration that the United States is planning on employing the use of unmanned drone aircraft to seek out and kill American Citizens who are suspected of plotting against our country.

 

There will no evidence presented, no probable cause, no day in court, no appeal.

 

I can see Dick Cheney and Dubya doing “fist bumps” as we speak.

 

I wonder if there is a Stature of Limitations on these criminals.

 

If there is not, I think I am going to take some time off and find our where Jane Fonda is staying these days.

 

 

Creative Challenge: Table

I am enthralled by her surface, smooth, flat and sturdy

One can’t help but admire her legs shapely and pretty

Oft times she is modestly covered, appropriately dressed

The times when she wears nothing, I am dutifully impressed

Her adornments can be elegant, but always utilitarian

When you meet her you won’t believe she is a septuagenarian

She has many names, among which her favorite is “Mable.”

One thing which cannot be denied, Mable keeps an excellent table.

 

 

© Tim D. Culey -2013-

 

 

 

News Update

Missing Wallets

by Tim Culey

Special Report to the New Orleans Times Picayune

A late breaking report from the New Orleans Police Department indicates that as of today there have been 35,000 reports of missing wallets among those who attended Sunday's Super Bowl game in the NOLA Superdome.

When asked about this interesting development, Mayor Mitch Landrieu called it "an unfortunate moment" in what he said was an "otherwise shining Super Bowl week" for New Orleans.When asked about the significance of the power being out for 35 minutes and 35,000 wallets reported missing, the Mayor replied, "Just an unfortunate coincidence."

The Mayor also cautioned that the number might increase in the coming days as more people sober up.

Other officials, who asked to remain anonymous declared, "We are glad the power was not out any longer than it was."

 

 

 

 

Seems True

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