With Mardi Gras well under way, although the actual Tuesday is still over a week off, I offer you one of the first Sunday Night Journals, from February 2004: A Useful Frivolity. It remains a good account of my view of Mardi Gras.
As you may have read in one of the comment threads, I went to a parade Friday night, even though it was raining and chilly. It was a rather dispirited affair, with only a tiny fraction of the usual crowds on hand. But my wife took a lot of pictures, and I think the wet streets make for some nice effects, as does the fact that her camera can’t stop motion at these light levels. Click on the pix for larger versions.
One of the marching bands that was not deterred by the rain.
Float approaching, with apparent UFO about to descend upon it (actually a hotel, which does not fly).
The parading group is called the Order of Incas (who knows why?). If it hadn’t been raining hard all afternoon, and still intermittently at this point, the few people you see here would have been a huge crowd, twenty or so deep.
Closer view.
These people appear to be worshiping the big glowing object.
This moron is happy because he caught a rare peanut butter MoonPie, which his wife had specifically requested.
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Light On Dark Water 
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