I’m sitting next to a guy who came in with a Mardi Gras go-cup. The cup’s theme was Dark Dreams of Childhood. That was the theme of one of this year’s parades but I could not remember what krewe it was.
I remember Steve and I talking about this parade because we both thought it was such an odd theme to pick.
There are no rules during Carnival.
Dark Dreams of Childhood was the theme of one of this year’s parades. I asked the guy with the cup what krewe it was. He looked and twirled the cup around. The krewe’s name appeared nowhere.
We got to talking about it. He did not really seem to know what he was talking about. He thought that based on the theme and the look of the cup, which was kind of scary, that this parade must have rolled through the Marigny. “Maybe it was the Krewe of Krampus,” he said.
It did not come from Krampus. Krampus is in December and they do not pass out novelty plastic cups.
I said, “No it was a parade down St. Charles Avenue. It is an old krewe.”
The guy on the other side of the guy with the cup sad, “Hey, what krewe is that?”
We both told the third guy that we did not know. The third guy did not know, either.
Time passed.
You will never guess how much that chintzy, cartoony, plastic go-cup from this year is worth. I gotta put up the paywall. I have to give the paid subscribers a reason for paying.