At 2:45 P.M. on Fat Tuesday, 2009, Pableaux Johnson, New Orleans food writer and raconteur extraordinaire, sent Houstonians this message:
“Whatever you are doing, stop it right now and take the rest of the day off.
It’s Mardis Gras people!
You have a whole lot of drinking to do if you hope to catch up!”
-via Robb Walsh
This article appears in Feb 19-25, 2009.