Mid-City Bonfire January 2, 2009
Posted by The Typist in Mid-City, New Orleans, NOLA.Tags: bonfire
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In spite of the new configuration of a bonfire in a firebox surrounded by police barricades, my 13-year old son and I managed to run (ok, jog and sometimes walk as fast as we could through the crowds and around all the emergency vehicles) three times around the bonfire.
I kept looking for any sign of other people trying, but did not spot anyone.
All your good luck is belong to us.
Later I will organize some thoughts about the bonfire and New Year, but staying at Mick’s until 3 a.m. then getting up to help clean up the neutral ground left me pretty drained out yesterday, and today is back to work.
or at these independent New Orleans bookstores:
Great footage. Why are there always idiots like the ones who broke thru the barricades? I just don’t get it.
Hell, I wanted to break through the barricades. (I actually jumped them to put my tree in, but i was wearing a Bonfire Krewe T-shirt and was technically allowed in the staging area).
It has lost something of its atavistic and orgiastic glory, which think we need to slowly restore (at least as far as possible). If that is not possible, then perhaps some of us will slip away and start a new tradition somewhere just out of site.
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