That is an interesting article, Chad. This quotation and these photos ratify my (nauseating to recall) observations yesterday:
I am watching a man dressed as a giant phallus screaming obscenities at a woman disguised as Sponge Bob Square Pants. She has just opened her yellow box blouse to reveal her bare breasts. An octogenarian Flash Gordon is too drunk to notice.
But the author reminds me that yesterday was “Fat Tuesday.” For some reason I thought the name had a more figurative context (i.e., it’s the last day to eat up all the fat so that it doesn’t spoil while you’re abstaining during Lent). I had forgotten that Mardi Gras itself is French for “Fat Tuesday.”
