Mar 5, 2019

🎭 Mardi Gras






"Cher, it's Mardi Gras. Every night's the weekend."




Midnight Bayou 




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What is it, and how do people celebrate every year




Break out your beads, Mardi Gras is upon us.
Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday," also called Shrove Tuesday. It is the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of Christian Lent season leading up to Easter.





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There was a madness about Mardi Gras. The music, the masks, the mayhem all crashing together into a desperate sort of celebration 
managed to create a tone that was both gleefully innocent and rawly sexual. 
He doubted the majority of the tourists who flocked here for the event understood or cared 
about the purpose of it. 
That rush to gorge on pleasures before the forty days of fasting. 

Midnight Bayou