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| Trinidad Readies for Carnival Climax |
| 2004-02-25 |
| Nice title, AP. Trinidad’s famed Carnival heated up to a climax Tuesday, with thousands of bleary-eyed and barely dressed revelers bouncing to festive music while parading through the streets of the capital. The annual festivities officially began Monday, but locals have flocked to raucous parties and concerts for the past week. Besides the tens of thousands of Trinidadians, officials said about 47,000 tourists attended, 8,000 more than last year. "It’s the best thing in the whole entire world. You have a good time and don’t worry about anything," said Marsha Simpson, 24, one of thousands of bikini-clad revelers following competing troupes of masqueraders. No photo of bikini clad Marsha at the link. AP is really slipping. Though Carnival is celebrated in several Caribbean countries, Trinidad is seen as the heart of the celebration. Steel band groups, surrounded by masquerading dancers, passed by judges Tuesday in downtown Port-of-Spain to be scored on their costumes, creativity and musical themes. Many dancers wore revealing bikinis, others gladiator outfits, and still others stuck with traditional costumes of plantation workers or blue devils who prodded at the crowd with forks. Some costume makers complain the quality of costumes has dropped in recent years as Carnival becomes a more tourist-oriented, flesh-baring affair. Examples of these lascivious, degenerate costumes at the link. Tusk, tusk. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 Carnival climax? Sounds like clown porn to me? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-2-25 10:00:43 PM |
| #4 They're all there for one purpose - to have fun. Thanks OP! My wife will be home in a minute or two with ... yes.. the ashes. But I do love her so much. Ah well, maybe they'll be congugal visits. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-25 6:16:35 PM |
| #3 Been to Mardi Gras (one of the benifits of growing up in Louisiana), been to Fasching parades and parties in Germany, been to some pretty neat shenanigans in Panama and a couple of other places. The one thing that stands out is that 90% of them are the same. That other 10% (I.E., steel bands in Trinidad, some spectacular colonial dresses in Panama, marching bands in Germany, etc.), is what makes it worthwhile to go to different ones. They're all there for one purpose - to have fun. If it brings in some extra dinero, that's a bonus, not the main prize. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-2-25 5:52:05 PM |
| #2 gromky - "toxic"??? I don't mean to offend, but are you gunning for RB curdugeon? You've got a lot of competition, bro. But no sweat, I can help. Been there / fixed that! ;-) "asshat tourists are turning a genuine native tradition into a skin-baring tittilation for out-of-towners" Ummm, exactly how pray tell, do the tourists do this? Don't you mean that the genuine native festivities organizers who invented most of this event to draw tourists in the first place are competeing with other genuine native festivities organizers for tourists? It's called tourism and is part of capitalism. They way it works is first you get yourself a good steak to sell. As long as you've got something in short supply, you're good to go. When everybody has a steak, well, you call in the marketing dept and add sizzle so that your steak stands out from the crowd and v'oila! N'cest pas? GM has trashed our genuine native car shows by adding sexy wymyns in ever-more revealing outfits (shock!) and there are reports that the Internet has some sites which offer porn (surprise!) - ugghh, who wants that? I even hear they've become popular! Who'da thunk it? Well, uh, me. Cuz we're wired for it -- sex is instant sizzle, even if you're peddling rubber shoe-sole quality steak. Nothing new there, bro. Unless you've got a short circuit in your wiring. In that case, come see me in my new Sin City digs and I'll introduce you to Chantal. She's 27, so I doubt she'd fill that peculiar fetish that NMM parades and projects onto others so often, y'know, the pedophilia thing he's so hung up on. She's a pro. She won't just clean your clock, son, she'll stop time dead in its f**kin tracks. She can fix anything, methinks. She sure as hell fixed my deprived post-Saudi condition! If this pisses you off, well, I can't help after all. Sigh. If not, hell man, c'mon down to Sin City! Melike upgraded sexy "native" costumes and undulating Carnival dancing. Me know the whole thing is staged show for money. Me not go without something to attract me. Me wired that way. ;-> |
| Posted by: .com 2004-2-25 1:45:45 PM |
| #1 You mean asshat tourists are turning a genuine native tradition into a skin-baring tittilation for out-of-towners? Sounds like the crowd that turned Carnival in New Orleans into a grotesque parody of itself have found new grounds to spread their toxic ideas. |
| Posted by: gromky 2004-2-25 5:38:45 AM |