Mardi Gras is coming!!!

And we've got Mini-Kiss coming! Can life be any better? Actually, there are a ton of local blues bands (well and other styles too) that play during Mardi Gras, so I don't really need to see midget re-enactors of the worst band of all time (Styx is in the running for the title). Let's just hope the weather acts reasonable like last year. It's going to be huge and I might be forced to enjoy a tasty libation or two.
The cool thing about Mardi Gras is that it started as a small little one-house party and then spread to a block and then a district and now the whole city (including the suburbs) gets into it. The city tries to screw it up every year, but it's gotten too big for even the all-knowing, all-caring and all-powerful big-wigs in city hall to take down. Remember, any time a person tries to do something in the city and an Alderman or woman can't take credit for it, they will take them down. Mardi Gras has survived and thrived. So, if you want to celebrate our French heritage (which has gone away for the most part) or our Catholic heritage (which is still alive and well, controversy and all) and you don't want to get shot, come to St. Louis.
I want to start a movement to rename the downtown streets after their original French names, btw. Having our streets named after Philadelphia's is so lame. I don't know what in world they would be, but let's try something a bit different for once.