Mardi Gras

I am back. I started working on that post I mentioned yesterday. I will continue it and possibly get it up (funny choice of words there) tomorrow or Thursday. I did want to remind y'all that today is Fat Tuesday, Pancake Tuesday or Mardi Gras.

We are missing fun parades and all out debauchery in N'awlins right now. At least, I am missing it. I am not one for parades. I am, however, a great enjoyer of debauchery. That is both as participant and voyeur.

No, there is nothing like some good, old fashioned debauchery to get the blood moving. Hell, some good old debauchery gets all the bodily fluids moving, that is generally a good thing (then again, it may depend upon the bodily fluid in question, I dig that).

I would love to go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. All the food, trading beads for a flash of some lovely's tits, the risk of being mugged and killed. It is all good and so Louisiana. A little crawfish gumbo and a stabbing, all with a cry of "show us your tits" thrown in for good measure. You cannot be New Orleans during Mardi Gras.

I recall being down in Florida over reading week in 1988. It must have been a later Mardi Gras (which means a later in April Good Friday). MTV was a buzz about the whole thing. This leads me to the next thought and bad music.

Do you remember Vanity of Vanity 6 (Nasty Girl), she was a Prince protegee. She would leave the band (similar to the Mary Jane Girls--3 hot chicks, in an 1980s way with big hair and a ton of makeup) and Apollonia was put in her slot (pardon the pun) and got into Purple Rain with Prince. Anyway, she had a song, written by Prince, that was crap but very explicit. "Pretty Mess"-such a pretty mess, ooooh, he made such a pretty mess on my dress.

Now, I am not sure if he just shot on her dress or how long it took him to unload and what she did to bring it on. The only question I really have as I think about it and put it all into a different context is this.....was Monica Lewinsky singing this song when she decided to keep her dress, without cleaning it, that had Bill Clinton's cumstain on it?

I had forgotten about that song but I was reminded of it the other night. That is the first thought that came to my mind when I heard it again. What does that say about pop culture or more importantly, what does it say about me?

Ciao! Enjoy, is that possible or the point, your lent if that is your bent. I do not like to pay retail and I will certainly not do it in my religion. No, 40 days for us, it is one and done (fast for a day and be absolved). That is how we roll! Ciao!