The Running of the Bulls in NOLA - this year's version - last Saturday

[Mira]

Hundreds of red and white clad folks gather and the run starts at 8 am and follows a prescribed path. Women on roller skates made up to resemble bulls or whatever trips their trigger carry soft batons. With them they mostly hit the men as they pass them by.

Some of the batons don't sound so soft to the onlookers who line the streets as the hullabaloo goes on, I for one often said “OUCH” watching and listening.

At the end of the long lines of participants come some men - clad as the "Elvises".

This will hopefully make you feel like you also got to see it!

[abakan]

1. This looks like fun...

I'm moving to NOLA soon and am looking forward to participating in the things that happen there. I can't wait!
Thanks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. These are great, my dear Mira! Love 'em!

[dhill926]

3. now THIS...I can support....

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Such enthusiasm in that heat.....I shudder.

I like a city that does not take itself too seriously.

Thanks for "where on earth were you this time" picx!

[Solly Mack]

5. Love it! Great photos!

Can't help but smile!

[NV Whino]

6. Okay, I officially declare New Orleans weird.

Great pics!

[Mira]

7. You're making a brilliant observation

I would not want to, or be able to live there.
(unless of course there was no alternative)

NOLA has turned into a huge version of Key West, Jackson Hole, Palm Springs, Asheville.
The HUGE part is that there is little normalcy anywhere in the main areas of the city.

After Katrina much of the city has been appropriated to make more tourist havens at the cost of many not getting their homes back even if they had not had damage but were in areas that were more conducive to money making than housing the poor.
See:" Big Easy to Big Empty - the untold story of the Drowning of New Orleans, by Greg Palast.
I saw the areas of reconstruction paid for by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in the lower ninth ward.
And I saw that they can't do it all, and that there is so much left to do.
I have photos of houses where there are the holes in the roofs still open from which people tried to get out of their flooded attics.

Shame!

[bluedigger]

8. You missed my old boss!

He was there somewhere. Always is. I could never do it, as it's too early to start drinking for me.

[Mira]

9. Funny!

Your old boss may be in one of my other photos, I could not post them all naturally.
BUT
for the first time in decades I drank a beer around 9:30 am.
Nothing else would do.

[bluedigger]

10. Photojournalism is thirsty work!

Who could blame you?