Next meetings:
- Sunday, January 19th at 1 p.m.
- Sunday, January 26th at 1 p.m.
Meetings are at Lee and Pam's house on Annunciation Street. Y'all, there's only 4 weeks left, and we have lots to do. Here is what will be going on:
- Pay your dues - the mother Krewe's first deadline has passed, and now dues are $100.
- Get your yellow rain suit costumes (Pam has suggestions for sources - buy them in town or on the internet)
- Help with float. We need people to paint figures, trees, etc. Fabric representing floodwaters is being worked on.
- Lee is working on a brilliant (as usual) article for Le Monde du Merde, and will welcome your comments and suggestions. Click to read the first draft.
- We need help designing handouts such as hurricane tracking charts and evacuation route maps, and ?
- The Comatose t-shirt is being printed! They will be available in a few weeks. Sizes S-XXXL, $10/each.
- Pre-pay for magnets. Krewe of Comatose magnets relating to our evacuation theme will be 18 cents apiece. In other words, you can get 100 for $18.00. They should be here in two weeks. Pre-purchase these because Chuck and Aimee will not be parceling them out on parade night this year.
Le Monde du Merde article:
NEW ORLEANS: As a result of recent geopolitical and paranormal
upheavals, the normal parameters of America's
hurricane season have shifted and now extend well into
February.
The one moist city most vulnerable to this
metamorphosis is the beloved "Big Easy". Once again
New Orleanians are at the epicenter of hedonism and
hurricanism. The mystical subkrewe Comatose has
learned of this danger from the retired local weather
guru Nash Roberts...well in advance of other
citizenry.
Comatose has remained strictly OFF THE RECORD during
their preparations for a possible Mardi Gras
Maelstrom.
Theories abound as to why the storm season has
lengthened:
1. Excessive media coverage of every tiny weather
system has created a "blowhard, windbag" effect that
now generates the rare EL NINYO LOCO.
2. Technological advances spearheaded by pornography
have steered giant blowing and sucking winds straight
up the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet.
3. Ever more gigantic cruise ships interfacing with
monstrous overhead power lines have created a
hyperkinetic electromagnetic hurricanic dissonance
field.
4. Home Depot executives and plywood manufacturers
have been seeding the stratosphere during alleged
"experiments" from the space shuttle Endeavour....clandestinely creating more hurricanes.
5. Pat O'Briens green satellite television dish is
actually beaming molecules of rum into Louisiana's
skies that combine with swamp gas to foment
typhoonisms
6. The New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board, afraid
that they will someday finish the Napoleon Avenue
project, have been seen conducting voodoo rituals,
praying that THE BIG ONE will strike and permit them
to begin anew.
7. The success of the local music industry has been
mushrooming...the large number of spinning compact
discs have been the genesis of a clockwise rotation of
melodies into the air that attract all manner of
storms.
Confusion and chaos, first cousins to Comatose, still
permeate the ranks of this motley subkrewe. Most male
krewe members heard a call to EJACULATE! instead of
evacuate and prepared to fornicate with a large woman!
While Mayor Nagin fiddles and New Orleans floods, the
once brave and fatalistic KREWE OF COMATOSE has been
scared shitless. We have built a commodesque float so
we can EVACUATE! DA BIG ONE IS COMIN'
2002 Brew Doo
Comatose at the 2002 Brew Doo with Brain Dead Brews by Brewmeister John Michael---Laudanum Stout and Terminal Ale-ment.
