Krewe du Vieux, 2008

My favorite handout from last night's Krewe du Vieux parade. It's from one of the subkrewes, the Krewe of PAN, which chose to revere a slightly obscure but magnificent writer known for his quotability. Case in point:

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become only a study for archaeologists. ...But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes, than to own the whole state of Ohio. --Lafcadio Hearn, 1879

P.S. Note the gilded bagel from Krewe du Jieux in the background--my first ever! Sadly, I didn't get it on my own; it was procured on my behalf by someone with much bigger tits. But whatevs. I never claimed to have it all.