With wireless technology being what it is, why did it take until this weekend and St. Stanislaus Academy to bring the electric bass to Mardi Gras? In the middle of the marching band, one person pulled a wagon with a bass amp in it, and walking behind it in formation was a woman about as tall as Fender bass.

… and the Marine Corps Marching Band was surprisingly entertaining. Not funky, but entertaining. But who told them that Earth, Wind and Fire’s “September” worked as a funeral dirge?