dangerblond’s 2006 mardi gras photo album March 6, 2006
I put my Mardi Gras photos and some that people have e-mailed to me in a Yahoo Photo Album. Click on the art | photos | graphics tab above to find it. Yahoo Photos has unlimited uploading and storage, and the photo albums can be easily viewed as a slide show, but they do not yet have the easy ability to post a photo to a blog. Flickr has a monthly limit for a free account, and they also have the slide shows, plus blogging a photo from there is really simple, basically one click. Does anyone know of any other free photo-uploading sites, especially with unlimited storage/uploading and easy bloggability? Please let me know if you do. Also, what about posting video to blogs? Discuss.
mardi gras in . . . st. louis
My friend Michelle is in town tonight because she has a hearing tomorrow morning in Federal Court. Meredith, Brian and I had dinner with her at our old stand-by, the Redfish Grill. Thank you, Michelle’s client, it was delicious. Michelle moved to St. Louis last spring. I remember when she was trying to get a mover to deliver her stuff to her new place in St. Louis. The guy at the moving company proudly told her that they have one hell of a Mardi Gras in St. Louis. We had a lot of fun with that one, telling Michelle that after 10 years of living in New Orleans, she was finally going to see a decent Mardi Gras.
She had a huge Mardi Gras party at her loft apartment. She made jambalaya and gumbo - but she couldn’t find any okra in St. Louis, so she used . . . zucchini! All of her guests were overwhelmed by the free-flowing booze and Mardi Gras music. Apparently, St. Louis is a very conservative place. Her parents came over the next day and were SHOCKED that someone had spilled their DRINK on Michelle’s wall. They wanted to know if there had been DRUGS involved.
Don called tonight from New York. He participated in a panel discussion at Columbia about the “regrounding” of New Orleans. His take from it - “no one has any answers. It’ll be fixed when it’s fixed.” He saw the Whitney Biennial and pronounced it “crap. Maybe there was some depth to it, but I missed it.” The conference continued at Princeton, so he was able to see William. Most of William’s professors participated in the panel discussions. He’ll be back tomorrow and Jackie and Daisy can go back to the Quarter. They’ve enjoyed their visit to the ‘burbs, but they miss their daddy.
Meredith reports that Josh and Kevin are facing disciplinary action by the Krewe of Tucks for failing to wear their masks (and Josh not wearing his costume tunic) throughout the parade. Is it wrong for me to be giggling about that? Steve and I can smugly say that we wore ours proudly from start to drunken finish.
