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Clarendon Mardi Gras Parade Date Set

by ARLnow.com | January 25, 2011 at 8:37 am | 785 views | 49 Comments

Last year, the Clarendon Mardi Gras parade became a St. Patrick’s Day parade due to a snow-related postponement.

This year, the two holidays are close enough together that organizers are planning to make the parade a joint Mardi Gras/St. Patrick’s Day affair.

The Clarendon Mardi Gras/St. Pat’s parade will place take this year on Fat Tuesday, March 8. Further details are still in the works.

(St. Patrick’s Day is Thursday, March 17.)

http://arlingtondirt.blogspot.com TGEoA

Show your tatas!
mehoo

Combine it every year.
- KalashniKEV
  
  Wow… I seriously dislike you so much. Two different holidays. Two different parades. Obviously.
  
  Laissez les bons temps rouler!
  - mehoo
    
    You have a point, Kev. Why not two parades? I still seriously dislike you too though.
    - KalashniKEV
      
      HA! Your opinions change with the winds.
      (assuming these are really your opinions)
      - mehoo
        
        It’s awesome that you find a way to bash me for agreeing with you, Kev. You must have alot of former friends.
      - KalashniKEV
        
        No, because I never had any to begin with.
Greg

How long until this alarms the nation’s scientists? Can the earth really handle a critical mass of drunken frat boys?
- CourthouseGuy
  
  We would have blackballed you anyway. Dont take out your surpressed anger from college (if you went).
  - Greg
    
    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
    
    Nerves dun been struck!!!
http://twitter.com/ClarendonBlvd ClarendonBlvd

Wow, another stereotypical “frat reference.” How novel/lame.
- notahoo
  
  I’ll just go ahead and guess that you’ve never been to the Clarendon section of Arlington after about 9pm at night? I was pretty shocked myself after I moved to the area and walked to CVS one saturday night. I think it was the really long line of guys in jeans and golf shirts (yes and the novel popped collar) and young women not wearing sensible shoes waiting in a huge line to get into a sports bar that tipped me off regarding the serious issue of ex frat guy douchebaggery in Clarendon.
  - Kyle
    
    Funny thing is, as a former frat guy who lives in Arlington (and doesn’t wear popped collars or flip flops, as do none of my former frat guy friends), most of the types you see out at night in Clarendon in such situations A) are not former or current frat guys and B) don’t live anywhere near Arlington county. Half the people on any given weekend night in Arlington come in from Fairfax and Herndon or other places unknown.
    
    (Also, welcome to DC: douchebaggery in every way/shape/form runs rampant, from the “former frat guys” in Arlington to the hill staffers oversure of their own importance down in Cap Hill to the puffed up dbags hanging out at Smith Point.)
    - ArlBlueSky
      
      I agree. Many are not from the Clarendon area as evident by the traffic at the Metro and from the parking lots at closing time…
    - http://twitter.com/ClarendonBlvd ClarendonBlvd
      
      +1. Most of the collar popper, sandal wearing guys were NOT in fraternities. Nobody in mine did…
  - JamesE
    
    Probably Mister Days, which also doubles as a leper colony.
    - Radar
      
      Mister Days needs to go. It needs a major upgrade and the food is so generic.
  - http://twitter.com/ClarendonBlvd ClarendonBlvd
    
    Ummm, based on your expert demographic analysis, I am going to guess you’ve never lived in a city before? The type of people you describe are pretty much all of the DC metro area. No different here than any other city. And yes, I live 2 blocks over from the CVS you are talking about.
CrystalMikey

Bayou Bakery needs to be all over this.
Westover

What is with the hatered of the Greek System by all of the late comers to Arlington? All of my friends from growning up in the area were in Fraternities before returning to the area, and I would say all are positive contributors to the community, and have been since we returned. Sure we went out to party in the bars, but we also were the ones putting on fund raiser events at the bars to provide food for the poor and tutors for kids. I would say half those that you all lable as “Frat Boys” were probably not even in Fraternities. Get over it with your insults.
- Winner
  
  Nice use of satire!!! (Either that or you went to college in the 1950s.)
  - KalashniKEV
    
    1950s was a good call… I was going to say State School fo’ sheaux…
    - mehoo
      
      What’s your alma mater, Kev?
- GeorgeOrwell
  
  fortuantely my college banned frats due to their lack of decent community standards.
  it is a stereotype for a reason.
John Fontain

All these comments about frats are ridiculous. The audience for these parades are typically 80 to 90 percent families with young children.
- Clarenschnoodle
  
  This is true. The kids love the parade !
  - Matt
    
    And beer tents…
    - Kyle
      
      If you hate beer tents, you hate America. U-S-A! U-S-A!
    - GeorgeOrwell
      
      and tatas. what baby doesn’t?
    - KalashniKEV
      
      I envision the Clarendon Ballroom block to be like Canal Street- where it gets a little wilder and girls actually flash, and the Courthouse side to be more family oriented.
      - mehoo
        
        Clarendon Ballroom = Canal Street. Our party standards are pretty low. Much like our standards for hipsters.
        
        In any event, I usually bring my kids to the Clarendon Ballroom side.
- Arlwhenever
  
  Right you are. The kids are goo-goo eyed. And try as I might, I’ve never spied ultimate debauchery along Wilson Blvd, not even on the IOTA float.
  - KalashniKEV
    
    That was before I moved into town…
Ballstonian

Better than a bunch of hipsters.
- Lalaland
  
  Sadly, Galaxy Hut and Iota will probably be participating in this years festivities.
  - KalashniKEV
    
    *sigh*
    
    1) You guys have no clue what a “hipster” even is. If you brought a Williamsburg hipster to Clarendon they would probably either laugh or cry and then pedal their fixed gear back to someplace hip ASAP.
    
    2) Galaxy Hut is the best place. IOTA is the second best place. Please stay in Harry’s Tap Room though.
    - local
      
      Looks like somebody’s hanging out at hipster joints but pretending to be ironically unhip, which is about as hip as it gets.
Vinh An Nguyen

That would be pretty funny to see the Clarendon Mardi Gras morph into a New Orleans (or better yet a Rio) version.
- KalashniKEV
  
  All it takes is one person to serve as a catalyst. I’ll bet if ONE girl flashed her boobs in Spider Kelley’s tonight you could have 10 more do it in the next half hour.
  
  The whole “New Orleans/ Bourbon St.” or “Beads” or whatever gimmick is just an excuse…
  - mehoo
    
    See, I knew we had some common ground Kev.
  - http://arlingtondirt.blogspot.com/ TGEoA
    
    Just offer a free drink to the first girl that will do it.
  - KalashniKEV
    
    Hooray for boobies!
Douchbaggerylol

The comments/feedback on here are FAR better reading than the newsletter itself!!

Thanks for the entertainment.
MC

This should be held on Columbia Pike, not Clarendon. Nothing Latin in Clarendon at all, nothing not even Jamaican. A Clarendon Mardi Gras is about as authentic as a Clarendon Rap festival.
- CrystalMikey
  
  Which would consist of “Arlington Rap” on infinite loop.
- Katie
  
  “Latin”? I think there’s confusion here vis-a-vis Mardi Gras (New Orleans, USA/French) vs. Carnival (Rio de Janiero, Brazilian).
  
  Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday in French. HTH.
  - Juanita de Talmas
    
    It’s the same celebration, just a different name.
    - KalashniKEV
      
      Nope.
    - mehoo
      
      Yep.

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