March 5, 2006 | Filed under: big easy, Holiday! Celebrate!
Here’s one last Mardi Gras video for posterity–well, maybe not the last. It’s a sampler platter of characters I ran into on Mardi Gras, each one more outrageous and memorable than the last. Where else can you enjoy an “airplane” taxiing down a city street? Or Colonel Sanders surrounded by giant-sized chickens? Or a dapper older gentelman dancing with an Outer Space mermaid? A man sporting a permanently wind-blown tie? New Orleans, of course. A place where it’s possible–likely, even–for traffic to come to a dead halt due to spontaneous dancing in the streets.
What else is there to do but hop out of your car and join in?
Where else can you get away with traipsing around the city dressed as Gene Simmons when it’s months away from being Halloween? Needleess to say, The Three Genes were a big hit. People screaming everywhere we went “You wanted the best, you got the best!”. We even got called out by Peaches at her show at One Eyed Jacks. You simply haven’t lived ’till someone yells “WE GOT KISS IN THE HOUSE!!!” in referrence to you from the stage of their own concert. It rocked. Next year we plan to add spandex.
I wanted so very much to have some coherent footage of The Three Genes but, alas, it was not to be. So instead you get incoherent footage of the Three Genes. Too much wine, too much giggling and way too much of Gene #3 pushing the buttons of the ridiculous “Mayor in Your Pocket” key chain trinket he aquired on Decatur Street, duplicating his tendency to say exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time.
One last Mardi Gras highlight was not caught on film…I’ll write about it later. It’s a doozy.
March 5, 2006
@ 10:00 am
Your lively and spirited blog caught my eye.
I’ll be back for further reading.
March 5, 2006
@ 6:05 pm
You rock Gene Simmons! Very nice post. Loved the costumes. Can’t wait to see your next vlog.
March 5, 2006
@ 8:12 pm
By far your best Mardi Gras post yet! Loved the post.
Evan (http://e-vlog.blogspot.com)
March 5, 2006
@ 8:59 pm
Have you done the 3 Gene’s before…..because that was just toooooooo funny………..I didn’t read the post before I viewed it so I keep wondering “who in the hell is yelling?” That was just to funny……..if you like KISS you will love my next post…….
March 5, 2006
@ 11:33 pm
nope! never before! But we’re SURE to do it again the very next chance we get!
March 6, 2006
@ 2:04 am
Watching this vlog post makes me want to take music lessons. I know how to dress funny already.
March 6, 2006
@ 6:03 am
I have never been to Mari Gras, however about 10 years ago I was in Baton Rogue, a friend of mine was doing a semester at a university there, man the names escapes me…anyhow, I drove from Wilmington NC to Baton Rogue, straight shot…had no idea it would take me like 16 plus hours, but once I got there, we had the greatest time…anyhow great video…cause I wanna rock n roll…all night…and party everyday…
April 23, 2006
@ 6:16 am
But which one is Gene?