Today is Mardi Gras. (Frenchy French for “Fat Tuesday.”) For those of you who are unfamiliar, it’s the holiday we celebrate in the South, commemorating the day before Ash Wednesday – which marks the beginning of the 40 days and nights of the Lenten season. (Me, I’m planning on giving up taking any Liberal seriously. Should be cathartic.) It’s an excuse to laissez les bon temps roulez one last time before everybody has to behave themselves in the run-up to Easter. In Shreveport, as in most of the rest of Louisiana, we are treated to a series of parades and balls, staged by “Krewes” – essentially social clubs who’s purpose is to stage Mardis Gras events. The New Orleans parades are the stuff of legend, and a huge security headache. Shreveport’s parades…not so much. But this year’s Krewe of Gemini was not incident-free. Hence this story from 710KEEL.com:
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