With apologies, getting a late start on Mardi Gras today!

Fat Tuesday is here so let's hear some Balfa Brothers and 'La Danse de Mardi Gras'

Lunchtime zydeco, we provide the music you provide the jambalaya

Or Lunchable or a PBJ or a can of soup. Whatever is for lunch it'll go better with Jeffrey Broussard & the Creole Cowboys and 'Zydeco a Pas Sale'

How about some more of that GENUINE Cajun music...

'The Kaplan Waltz' with Nathan Abshire and the Balfa Brothers.

We're devoting the rest of the day to Mardi Gras and that GREAT Cajun music!

It is Mardi Gras on the streets of New Orleans which means here on the frozen streets of Jersey City, Hoboken, and New York City we can warm up with some of that great Cajun music.

The best to our long lost New Orleans correspondent Ms. Oddzymandias, this one's for you sweetie. The Balfa Brothers with 'The Acadian Two-Step'

Another quick cajun classic from The Balfa brothers

If you're a movie buff you may recognize this song from the climatic final scene in the movie 'Southern Comfort'. We'd use the clip from the movie but then you'd have to watch a pig get slaughtered and you'd simply hate that, trust Johnny.

The Balfa Brothers with 'Parlez Nous A Boire'.

Welcome to Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras 2011

Oh we'll have a lot of fun today celebrating the great cajun culture down Louisiana way as we do every Fat Tuesday. Hopefully our N'awlins reporter Ms. Oddzymandias will favor us with pictures, video and fun from her hometown today.

We'll kick it off with the Balfa Brothers and 'Les Veuves de la Coulee'

Here's a look from our intrepid New Orleans correspondent Ms. Oddzymandias of yesterday's Rex Mardi Gras parade

Beautiful floats and we thank you for the rights to show the pics Oddzy!

You know the routine by now, click for a bigger image

Don't forget the webcam today

Along the New Orleans parade route, they'll be going off all day as Mardi Gras in New Orleans is made up of many many parades.

Did somebody request the Cajun Roosters? OK

It's Fat Tuesday, get ready to have some Mardi Gras fun today!

Well Johnny can't get a Paczki out here in New Jersey (It's a Midwest Polish thing peeps and it's pronounced 'poonch-kee') so he'll just have to keep things hopping with the music of the day.

How about we start out today with a little BeauSoleil?

With all the hoopla about the New Orleans Saints and the city of New Orleans we bring you a Mardi Gras webcam

The Jersey City Desk's New Orleans intrepid correspondent Ms. Oddzy told us there is a webcam up and running so you can watch the Mardi Gras parades that go on all time of day with all sizes of processions. Throw some Balfa Brothers on and get your Mardi Gras on.

We have a very special treat for you this morning, live video from yesterday's Rex Parade in New Orleans

Johnny's good friend, and intrepid New Orleans resident and reporter Oddzymandias has some video from yesterday's Rex Parade from Mardi Gras. These are great clips and we certainly thank Oddzymandias for sharing them. Don't these clips make you wanna plan a trip down there and sip some hurricanes and eat some gumbo? Sure, next year for Mardi Gras but really anytime. It sure shows New Orleans isn't gonna let a little water stop them from having a good time any old time during the year. Nawlins is back!

Grab some beads as they get tossed party cats and kittens!

Rex, His Captain, and the Corps Band-Rex Parade 09


Calliope, Aztec Float & Walker Band-Rex Parade 09


Red Dove & Band-Rex Parade 09


Float A=Rex Parade 09