Today is Fat Tuesday, with a dozen parades officially scheduled. It's totally Mardi Gras  -- like anyone who have been in and around New Orleans can forget. They don't need a calendar, just their souls to know that Mardi Gras 2010 is underway. Today, in New Orleans,  the weather is in the low 40s, that is cold for New Orleans, really, really cold  --  but the people aren't.  My New Orleans pals tell me that visitors like myself think the Carnival is for tourists, but it is for the home town folks. And if not a single outsider came, the show would go on just the same, unless it would be bigger, wilder and less sane. It is the people's day, when nobody is supposed to work at anything but at partying, at having a good time.


 Happy Mardi Gras!

Links: Official site of the Mardi Gras 2010  (http://mardigrasday.com/), YouTube videos of Mardi Gras 2010 (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mardi+gras+2010&search_type=...)