Mar - Di - Gras!

in the spirit of edward's i'd like to weave a delightful tale of our special "gay christmas", but i'm still too weary for narrative, and there are some details that perhaps i should hold back on...

highlights:
- el prima and the float organisers playing a GREAT JOKE on me by telling me that my suggested song (via edward and fop) for the parade "Help I'm a Fish" had been "voted out". Sending me into a purple rage to defend the pure pop perfection of the Little Trees from those who'd rather have us marching stoicly to undistinguishable gay disco pap... only to discover that they *had* infact made it one of the featured songs...
- being stalked and found by edward in one of those lovely moments of internet persona / real life clashes - sadly, due to the GREAT JOKE, i spent most of the time moaning about why the green float would not be blaring out the dulcet tones of "i'm a little yellow fish in the deep blue sea (meaning the senate, you see! isn't it CLEVER! poor little green senators swimming about in that ocean of "deep blue" conservatism!)".
- managing to position myself as one of the cheerleaders AT THE VERY FRONT of the greens marching pom-pomming squad, and then missing almost every start-beat because i was a bit busy "playing to the audience".
- my grass skirt falling off at taylor square, in front of the tv cameras.
- seeing jesse and jo in the crowd and getting so excited that i dropped a pom-pom.
- changing into my pirate outfit after the parade and addressing everyone i met with "Argggghhh!"
- wearing said pirate outfit, which included little white frilled shirt ripped to the (heaving) bosom with a black corset (NOT the tragic lacy/ velvet faux-porn kind), wide black leather belt, little dark blue hotpants with red satin edging and stitching, black boots, suspenders, vintage net stockings, black and white checkered headscarf, silver jewellry a la Year 10 Ishka gone mad, big hoop earring and a skull and bones tatoo helpfully drawn on by el prima.
- commemorating *that* dancefloor pash with el prima last year with a special moment in the bathrooms. mmm