Following Rob St. Amant's suggestion:
Let's have an OS Meetup in New Orleans this Halloween!
No, seriously. By late October, the weather will be bearable, hurricane season will be (mostly) past, Southwest Airlines has some sweet direct flights from many major cities (and Freaky--FedEx can get you here overnight for about $20 and you could try your feet at smashing beignets or bread pudding with whiskey sauce), and nobody does Halloween quite like New Orleans.
Come see a grown man walk down Frenchmen street naked except for some strategically-placed Raggedy Ann dolls!
Have fun trying to figure out who's in costume and who's dressed that way because they're lunatics!
Go up to F&F Candle and Botanical on Broad St. and get all your voodoo and Santeria supplies!
Go to the only known zoo in the world that includes both a white alligator AND recipes for how to cook the various animals on display!
Head up to the Northshore to see one of those Hell Houses about what will happen to you if you don't repent of your wicked wicked ways!
Have a Sazerac at the Carousel bar! (Or a Hand Grenade if you're a frat boy douchebag!)
And meet other OSers!
I'll be there. You should be too.
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Second only to Mardi Gras in debauched chaos.
So, you pick the ONE TIME I can't go.
I'll be at my Grammy's near DC.
Hmph.
THAT is when we should all go.
I never knew you could "wear" a drill.
(BTW, because of Decadence 2002, there's now a law in Lousiana that gives you three days jail time for "a public sex act that's deliberately designed to draw a crowd.")
hell it might get my ass moving to finish my novel!!!
only problem is this new job has rotating days off.. and i work nights so even if i could get like 2 days off in a row i would have to drive at midnight after work to get there.. no sleep and leave early in the morning the day i have to be back to work and not have sleep till i get home from work at 1 am..
*cries* why dont i live closer!!
The idea of "costumes" will keep us consumed for months....
Let's keep the idea rolling.
denese
No place I have ever seen does Halloween like New Orleans.
Cool cool cool....
My mother always stays in a place in the Garden District on Prytania called The St. Charles Guesthouse. It's a mom and pop place, Continental breakfast, nothing fancy, but cheap, clean, and has a pool and fantastic owners, Dennis and Joanne Hilton. It's one block from the St. Charles streetcar or 30 min. walk from the Quarter. www.stcharlesguesthouse.com
Trig--(and others who may be wondering) A car is not absolutely necessary in New Orleans. I've lived here without one for six years.
NOLA isn't a very big place, and most anything you'd want to see is accessible on foot or by one of the four streetcar lines. In fact, in the French Quarter, having a car is a total pain in the ass because of parking regulations.
But bring an umbrella, 'cause when it rains it pours!
Thanks for taking Rob's Advice. I think more people should. It's a great big country full of OSers and "unions" (as opposed to reunions, because there's no "re" until you've actually une-d in the first place) can and should happen all over the place, all the time.
So if anyone cares to go in the range of Nov. 20-29, I'll be there anyway.
Now, when you say meet up with other OS'ers, are you referring to the phrase "...who's dressed that way because they're lunatics!" - or is that something altogether different?
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Okay. I'm in!
AND I already have a costume!
happyhappyjoyjoy
This is a GREAT idea and one I aim to get behind. Hooboy is right...
Oh, and I can bring Julie's mother back from Canada with me. (cows permitting)
I hear he's still into showing off his rumpus.
Count me in.
Stupid restraining order!! :( All I did was buy one of them gator heads at the gas station and ran around a civil war battle field yelling 'I am the ghost of Gator Head Joe Jackson!!!' or something like that. You'd think a bunch of old people would have seen an gator head in their life time!
:)
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C'mon folks--let's show up those snooty Vegas people and show them how OS debauchery is done right!
i'll bring the 'cid if you bring the smiles...
It is really really cheesy but the doughnuts at the Cafe du Monde in that atmosphere cannot be beat. Can we all meet up there at least once?
Dorinda--Beignets and cafe au lait at Cafe du Monde! Definitely...it's open 24/7, so it's a great place to eat some grease and bread and get caffeinated the morning after.
If there's an OS New Orleans meet-up then count me and the wife in, provided we don't head to PDX for Halloween. We're right up the road in Mobile and that's a short jaunt for us.
Not so sure you would want to go to Jazz Fest these days. At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, it was better 20 years ago. The best thing about being in NOLA then isn't what goes on in the morass up off Esplanade but the music in all the venues around town at night.