The Sun Herald. Today, kings and queens will reign, but the rain that paradegoers expect will come in the form of a technicolor precipitation of beads, a downpour of doubloons and a monsoon of Mardi Gras trinkets launched from float after slow-moving float. Scream your lungs out. Worry about the laryngitis the next day. Use devices cleverly.
Nets work, so do upended umbrellas, but keep the tips out of the eyes of fellow revelers.
Wear plenty of beads to the parade. Never, ever reach down to pick up a doubloon. Nothing is worse for the fingers, except slamming them in a car door. Stomp the sucker, then reach beneath your foot to retrieve it. You need to know this.