Is your krewe relevant or irrelevant? A primer.

Irrelevant parades:

Have passé royalty

Hulk Hogan
Kevin Costner

Have tacky royalty

Sidney bleeping Torres?
Salt n Pepa?

Have toilets and heaters on the floats

Have questionable music

Josh Gracin?
Salt n Pepa?

Have bizarre royalty

Helio Castroneves? Yeah, he’s Brazilian, so he “gets” carnival, but…

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Relevant Parade:

Marches through the quarter

Has rockin’ Royalty:

Ronald Lewis

Has relevant music at the party:

J.D. Hill
Honey Island Swamp Band
Quintron and Miss Pussycat

Has 18 brass bands in the parade:

Kirk Joseph
Trombone Shorty
Treme Brass Band
Paulin Brothers Brass Band
TBC
Stooges Brass Band
Free Agents Brass Band
Hot 8 Brass Band
James "12" Andrews
Da Truth Brass Band
Rebirth Brass Band
Panorama Brass Band
The Jazzmen
Charles Joseph
Down N Dirty Jazz Band
The Soul Rebels
New Birth Brass Band
Bone Tone Brass Band

Has cool throws

Features various and sundry blogger types.

Was one of the three original donors to the Dinerral Shavers Educational Fund.

Recycles throws!

Was so cool that the T-P is still running pix of one of the riders from 2 years ago.

Has their riders duck into a bar when nature calls.

Is not afraid to freeze their tallywhackers (or whatever) off.

Still gets dissed by Arthur Hardy's guide, year after year after year.

Pix by adrastos and emf221. Gracias.

Comments

[saintseester]

My daughter just turned to me and said, "Hey, mommy, you could have left us kids at grammy's while you and dad went to the parade.

Ah. So I could have. Dammit. Why didn't she think of that earlier?

[kirsty]

Yippeee - so psyched that the blogosphere is behind the krewe du vieux shannanigans - I will be there with a gaggle of friends, drinking rum punch and weathering the cold!!!

NOLA has been hitting me hard and bad lately so I am psyched to have some fun and positive juju in this city and banish the bad ... hopefully...

Have a great time!!!
Kirst

[R. Eustis]

Y'all were MUCH fun last night. Now I feel that carnival season has started for real...

[Richard P.]

The new route was great, allowing all of us die-hard fans to catch the parade multiple times.

[ashley]

I'm a dweeb. I forgot that Mark Folse (wet bank guide), Bec (NO Slate) and Karen Gadbois (Squandered Heritage) were parading, and Ray (Ray in NOLA) was a butch security guard.

I ran into G-Bitch, Mr Clio, plenty of Rollergirz, Liprap, Howie Luvzus, AJ and his posse, and a legion of others.

I missed Varg, Alan, and legions of others.

It was fun, it was cold, and it was cold. If I missed your name, it's because I suck. Sorry. ;^)

[liprap]

"Suck" needs to be wiped from your vocabulary as anything other than a verb. Good to see ya out in the cold.

[KamaAina]

You forgot that Folse was in KdV?! Ay caramba!

This whole subkrewe rivalry thing would be a major issue I'd have to deal with if I ever did come back (joining KdV itself would, obviously, be a no-brainer).

Perhaps, in order to maintain neutrality, I might go with one of the other fifteen, so as not to offend either of you (remember, I knew him first!)

I should have such problems (sigh)...

[alli]

I was there, and it was great. How do I go about joining? I'd love to get in on it for next year.

[ashley]

Pix coming up soon.

KamaAina, I think the subkrewe rivalry simply consists of a) penis laden floats v. non-penis laden floats; b) why can't anybody come up with a throw as good as Krewe du Jieux/Mishigas' bagel (although Mama Roux came close with the jello shots and whipped cream; c) "damn. You gots the Hot 8. Can we trade brass bands?"; d) "how come you guys get to be up front?" That's about it. There's not much rivalry as I see it. The reason I forgot Folse is because he's not in my crew, and I didn't see him at the den working on his float. And, I'm old and my memory is as short as my penis.

Alli, to get into a krewe, you need to talk to somebody, preferably somebody with pull, in a sub-krewe. We had 50 in our sub-krewe this year, and that's probably about our cap.

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