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It's Fat Tuesday, y'all...

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

14:26 / 20.02.07

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I bought the king cake. Who brought the Dixie?

Kit-Cat Club

15:36 / 20.02.07

Goodness, what have they done to that poor iced bun?

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

15:53 / 20.02.07

That bun contains a little rubber Jesus.

Dead Megatron

16:58 / 20.02.07

Hmm, me gots the munchies!!!

Kali, you really should visit us some Carnaval. I'm beting you'd love it.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:41 / 20.02.07

It's a plastic baby Jebus, Matt. Of course, some of the older bakeries in the city do interesting tokens and trinkets for their king cakes.

Man, I would love to go to Carnival down South America way.

Mourne Kransky

18:34 / 20.02.07

G and me just back from Carnevale in Venice, where we got all mediaeval on their asses. Boy, do the Venetians have style.

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Traditional costumes from Commedia dell'Arte: the Aristocrat (Bauta) and the Plague Doctor. Scary masks hanging above our bed now...

grant

20:38 / 20.02.07

Do you know why the plague doctor has a long beak?

Vinegar. They'd store vinegar down there to "purify the air."

Or so I've read.

Tonight, I eat MMMEAT.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:33 / 20.02.07

I read where they stuffed it with herbs. But there may also have been vinegar.