Comments on: Party Like It’s 1998

By: nmlhats

nmlhats — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:04:06 +0000

from the official website: “We are not planning any children’s activities as MystiQal will be an authentic Mardi Gras experience in Dallas on Saturday, February 2, 2008. Now is the time to book your babysitter and join us at MystiQal.”

As a New Orleans native and a 44 year old who has rarely missed a Mardi Gras in my hometown (or the rural version in Mamou…or Carnival in Venice…), I can guarantee you that with the exception of the foolishness that goes on in the French Quarter, Mardi Gras is and has always been a time of FAMILY celebrations, particularly at parades. Home-centered celebrations with family and friends very often go along with (or before and/or after) outings to parades. The adults-only part of Mardi Gras is but a small part of the whole. To call a Mardi Gras celebration “authentic” and by that mean “adults-only” is completely inaccurate and disappinting.

And I don’t even have any kids.

And the “syt” stuff is mainly drunk tourists or maybe drunk out-of-town college kids attending the universities in new Orleans. Natives know that plastic beads are not worth that kind of indignity.

By: Mh

Mh — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:06:25 +0000

Two interesting thing of note:

Hooters sponsoring the run? Hard to run with Hooters, if you know what I mean.

Popeye’s and the Eliza project. Eating disorders and fried chicken… not any healthy options being offered at the Parade??

By: Puh-leese

Puh-leese — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:10:07 +0000

If this event is like others Alison Draper has been “in charge” of, it will be a lot of sizzle and not much steak. The jury’s out on this one…

By: ben

ben — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:00:43 +0000

Geez Buck, relax and have a hurricane.

By: Don in Austin

Don in Austin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:00:14 +0000

I checked the posted link for Victory Park. I reckon it makes sense in a Dallas kind of way that there is no park in Victory Park except for one small section. Oh, there is park-ing…

Who’d a thunk there’d be more greenspace at the old powerplant?

Woohoo, party on the pavement y’all.

By: Randy Brown

Randy Brown — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:07:35 +0000

No one cares about Ft. Worth.

By: Buck

Buck — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:05:27 +0000

Folks, the St. Patrick’s parade in Fort Worth has always been a night parade.

When you say, “first nighttime parade in Dallas in 10 years,” you should explain, “we mean within the narrow confines of Dallas’ incorporated limits.”

By: Allison

Allison — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:23:01 +0000

I’d like to thank her for organizing a Mardi Gras birthday party on my behalf. I appreciate it.