Carnaval Austin

Is arnold going to be there?

 

I've never heard of it. I've lived here for 5.5 years and this is the first I've ever heard of this thing.

With that said, I won't be going. I'll be at a party saying goodbye to a melodramatic dumbass who is too monumentally screwed in the head to realize that the military was the worst decision he's ever made for himself.


God, I'm cynical today. But it's true.

 

Says who?


Places especially noted for elaborate Carnival celebrations include Aalborg in Denmark, 's-Hertogenbosch, Maastricht in The Netherlands, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz in Germany, Portugal, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador, Recife and Olinda in Brazil, Barranquilla and Pasto in Colombia, Port of Spain in Trinidad, Santiago in Cuba, Venice in Italy, Nice in France, New Orleans (See New Orleans Mardi Gras), Brooklyn, New York and Mobile, Alabama in the USA, and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Cádiz in Spain, Aalst, Binche, Eupen, Hasselt and Malmédy in Belgium. The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney, Australia, is a well-known pride parade. The Quebec City Winter Carnival is the biggest winter-themed carnival in the world. It depends a lot on good snowfalls and very cold weather, to keep snowy ski trails in good condition and the many ice sculptures intact. For this reason it does not observe the lunar based Easter celebration but is fixed instead to the last days of January and first days of February of the solar calendar.

- Austin not on this list. Sounds like PR BS.

 

uh, that's what he was talking about...notice all the Brazil references?

 

It's supposed to be a big party with a lot of people half-naked and on drugs.
Could be fun, if you're in the right frame of mind, or a colossal bore.

Have fun, I say. If you embrace humanities need to enter an altered state where they can be an indian or whatever and act out like a happy animal in a social group, then you'll get down. I think there's something like this in most cultures, for a reason. People enjoy an excuse to be uninhibited and enjoy the physical.

 

I went a few times back in the early 90's when I was at UT. It was a WILD party. Costumes and mind altering substances are a powerful combination. If it's half as much fun now, as it was then, it is well worth checking out.

 

One glance at the online pics supports your claims.

Last year was the first I had ever heard of it...had never heard of it while I was at UT.

 

Did you go? If its worth it Ill go with yall next year.