Endymion
The Krewe of Endymion, is a wonderful looking parade. Much like Jesus it is its followers who raise my ire. From about 8am on I have watched the public land of the neutral ground sprout suburban land barons like corn in Indiana. Now Carnival season is for everyone, I do not deny them that, but creating an impassable wall of roped off campgrounds and edge to edge ladders is far from endearing.
Unlike the usual crowd that gathers along the route there is a distinct and profound lack of manners. The phrase, “fuck you man, I’m from Kennah!” is one I have heard no less than three times today, all from people staking out their own little feifdoms on the neutral ground.
This is their Mardi Gras, and they should be having it on their traditional route.
For one thing few people realize that Carnival is celebrated in many different ways depending on what neghborhood you are in. Granted I tend to dislike most of the Endymion crowd I have dealt with on the three years they have been rerouted to St Charles (steps away from the keyboard)
Sorry, a case in point just resented itself. Just had to go rail at some punk for urinating on my windowsill. Third one in the last hour. I live 30 feet off the route, every parade goes right by and their crowds inundate the street outside my door. Endymion is the only one where people are pissing in my yard and on my door. The. Only. Time.
Anyway, as I was saying, another very important reason it needs to be on its home route is morale. This is Mid City’s Mardi Gras, and with all the foot draggin from our leaders they are in a bad way. They, like everyone in New Orleans, deserve the cathartic experience of celebrating Carnival their way in their neighborhood.
Failing that I hugely recommend learning some bloody manners!
EDIT 9PM: The Final Count on morns mistaking my building for a unrinal that I have caught is eleven! That is eleven addresses I want so that I can return the favor. Talk about self proving theorems!
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LMAO. Sorry. I know it’s not funny but it’s, well, funny. Happy Mardi Gras!
I’m witchoo, George.
Hey, I didn’t know I was missing out on an important Mardi Gras tradition. What’s your address again? Sorry, it’s not funny, and the land barons will likely be camping three blocks from the Folse compound next year, where I plan to stake my own bit of blue tarp property no later than midweek, and defending it to the death!
On TV I just saw a black man from Indiana who said he has come down to see Endymion for the last five years and wouldn’t miss it for the world.
I just wanted to point out to your readership that not all Endymion parade-goers fit the Kennerian profile you describe. Nor have we ever had problems with rampant urination when Endymion rolled in Mid-City.
I don’t care for the parade itself so much but I do miss the sense of festivity it engendered, and I hope they’re back here next year.
Still — I feel your pain!
I’m not so confident that Endymion will be back in mid-city. As a matter of fact, I have total confidence that the city will try to force it back uptown., because the police won’t be any bigger and may well be smaller. I’m just don’t know whether the mayor and police chief will back down when people object.
Question, am I crazy or did channel 15 just give incorrect information at least twice? The years that Endymion paraded uptown weren’t in a row were they? Didn’t I see it near here (city park) the last two years before Katrina?
They were not consecutive. There was last year and then about three years before when they were working on the Canal St. Streetcar line.
I guess I knew that, cause I lived in the area pre-Katrina. Just one of those middle of the night, am I getting senile when WWL kept calling it the third year in a row.
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Thanks and let’s get our people taken care of, this is crap to see my birth city, N.O. and my state’s coast in this shameful way.
Sarge
The Endymion fiefdoms are the main reason I didn’t make any of the parades yesterday. (Don’t remember this happening back in the ’60s.) The solid wall of ladders also bug me… don’t mind using them for the little ones, but I’m always worried that I’ll knock one over by mistake and it’ll become a domino-effect.
I’m glad there are no parades near our house. Someone watering my windowsill will have to deal with 11 of the largest and most unruly cats when they “whip it out”, and my property insurance rates will go through the roof.
An Endymion rider through a bag of ice at me (like, instead of a bag of beads?) which missed my nose by inches. I don’t like to make generalizations but it does seem like a rather hostile parade environment.
Yeah, I meant “threw” not through. Its just too early.
That’s terrible, having your home used as everyone’s turlet. I hope you caught some of these guys such that they ended up pissing all over themselves instead…
I have lived in the Quarter, Marigny and 9th Ward before so I am not unfamiliar with these antics. Its just annoying to see them during the part of Carnival that is traditionally for the kids and families.
Mark, anytime your near Nap and Pryt you have bathroom access, just ask.
Its a valid and IMHO important part of Carnival, but it the tradtion and vibe of another part of the city. As I stated, the crowd I have encountered on all three years it has been displaced to St Charles are what I have a problem with. It has more of a fotball game mentality than a parade mentality in my opinion.
Yep–I live about a block off St. Charles and I had 4-5 folks–three guys, two girls, peeing on the grass in front of the house, and one on my neighbor’s door. Last year, while driving down the sidewalk the wrong way of a one-way street, a drunken Endymionite crashed his truck into the tree in front of my house, decided that was a good-enough parking spot and went on to the parade. Maybe all that flies in mid-city but not here. I’m sure there are some great Endymion people but they’d be even greater back on their mid-city turf. Next year!
Three years ago, while at Endymion, I had to use the restroom really bad and there wasn’t a free porta-potty in sight. What did OCD girl do? I wandered into a party, pretended to know the host and used his toilet. Hey, at least, I didn’t use his yard.
I like your style, Maitri…
You can come crash a Krewe of Butter, Syrup, and Pancakes bash at my house any ol’ Mardi Gras day!
Fuck ME, man, I’M from Kennah!! But most of my neighboring drunkards are not as well mannered. I also agree with the ladder thing. I hate to impose rules on an otherwise loose celebration, but if they’d put the ladders to the BACK of the crowd instead of right up front it would help immensely.
What disturbs me more than unruly gawkers with loose bladders, (and close ladders,) is the complete disdain the riders have for keeping the route clean. I remember years ago when cops would stop the floats to put trash back on them. How hard is it to ball up the plastic bags and stuff them in a box? Now there’s so much crap in the streets, it’s difficult to scavenge post-parade, it adds more tax dollars spent for more workers to clean-up, and it hampers traffic with the stuff the cleaners miss or simply ignore. What happened to pride and decency?