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My Carnival #5 – Carnival Week To-Do List
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[...] By the week before Carnival, the anticipation was intense, no one was getting enough sleep, and France-based Trini blogger Callaloo Soup was thinking back longingly to Carnival 1998. Hassan Voyeau transcribed some of the inane lyrics of the season’s new soca songs. Bahamian CariBlog, in Trinidad for Carnival, had a good time at the PNM fete, and noted that many of the performers included political commentary in their song lyrics. Caribbean Free Radio posted a to-do list that began with “Fina good source of mud” (for J’Ouvert), and reported on the rained-out semi-final round of the Carnival king competition. I managed to do a quick “interview” with Kerwin Paul, Peter Minshall’s king, and Attillah Springer posted a list of “Carnival survival necessities” for her “outer-national” readers. [...]
What’s a dread got to do to get on the comp list for that beach house fete? I know you on the inside by association…