Wednesday, February 6, 2008

As I’m sure you know by now, it is supposed to snow like a bitch on Tuesday night. Luckily, we have the exciting election results on TV to keep us warm. Not only did I vote on Super Fat Tuesday, but I also even managed to eat more than I should too. That’s what you do on Super Fat Tuesday, right? You vote and you eat. Jimmy Banos from Heaven on Seven sent some of his Louisiana cooking over to the station Tuesday morning, and I ate a lot of gumbo, dirty rice, and some sort of incredible coconut cake. Then I went to vote. I flashed the ladies at my polling place but I didn’t get any beads-- just a warning from the police.

For some reason I was unable to take a nap on Tuesday afternoon, so I flipped off CNN and tuned in Ellen in an attempt to put myself to sleep. She was having a Mardi Gras themed show and she gave everybody in her audience Tiddy Bears. She said that if you display your Tiddy Bear in New Orleans you get some beads. Then she showed the infomercial. I know she’s a lesbian and everything, but I found the whole concept to be extremely hot. I’m not sure that I could get away with saying or playing that on the radio, but she ran with it and had 300 Tiddy Bears on hand. With all of that going on, I forgot to take a nap.

I have never been to Mardi Gras, or even New Orleans for that matter. Back in my drinking days, I always thought it seemed a little bit too dangerous to get that hammered so far away from home. Now that I’m sober, I can just go to Heaven on Seven and The Admiral Theater to recreate the Mardi Gras experience. Actually, I wouldn’t mind going to New Orleans one of these days, but I’m afraid they’ll try and make me build a house down there or something. I’ll leave that to Harry Connick Jr., Sean Penn, and Brad Pitt. I bet those guys get to see all of the Tiddy Bears that they can handle, and they don’t even need beads.