I asked them to cancel my subscription and they came back to me with a $29.95 rate, which I accepted. More than half off. How can you not feel like a sucker when you have no idea what the "real" rate is or what others are paying? It really does feel like dealing with Cox or T-Mobile or something.

Drew Brees just grounded out at Banana Ball. Knowing him, he will be furious at himself the rest of the week.

I bought a streetcar ticket on Le Pass a while back I wound up not using. Since then, I've seen the "expiration date" move around. Finally using it today but why would there be an expiration date? Sketchy as hell.

If you get Times-Pic home delivery, what are you paying? I just got notice that our subscription is going up to $68.48, billed every 4 weeks. Once I complained about a subscription hike and "canceled," and they came back at me with a lower rate.

I'm tired of the "when It happens" jokes/posts. "It" probably will not happen for 15 more years. Don't we know that Americans who subsist on a diet of Big Macs and ice cream somehow still outlive the healthy ones?

Yeah, it was weird. I remember the Bourbon St NYE text referred to "mass casualty event." I thought it was something like that, not SSDD.

The Times-Picayune paparazzi are enroute to Kentwood as we speak to give Britney the full Shia LaBouef treatment. Maybe even Chris Rose is crawling out of his tent to assist.

So what's the NOLA guy making pho thing? I keep seeing references to it.

Is this the chapel where one priest walked in on another assaulting a student and all he did was say something like, "Dammit, Bob, why here?" I remember a story like that coming out of all the abuse reporting. www.nola.com/entertainmen...

Hey wait, how did this go?

It feels so good beating...Canada?

Well I guess I'm watching Olympic hockey at 7 am.

Can we stop pushing church/school fish frys so much? Local restaurants can do it better and could use the business. It's one thing to think they're just fine eating but they're getting hyped up in a weird way. I feel like we're on the verge of influencers ranking local Cub Scout lemonade stands.

Okay, that's enough Shia LaBouef "news coverage." Also enough jokes about it.

Joyce Carol Oates on Twitter:

Gayle. Of course.

Errol...smiled?

Whew. Not eating or drinking crap until...okay, realistically tomorrow for dinner.

Really hope Zulu isn't too slow this year. People act like it's thumbing your nose at Rex or like it's the people's parade or something. But they forget a overly long Zulu screws marching clubs like the Buzzards. Not to mention the truck floats, which are about as opposite of Rex as you can get.

Just realized I don't see a single ply of a single square of Tucks TP in the oaks.

Man, Proteus doesn't throw aaaaaaaaanything.

I love Do Watcha Wanna. It's like the NOLA national anthem to me. And I like that the school marching bands play it. But...it's a little overexposed now.

Riders walking home from the Snoopy float.

Endymion Grand Marshall #1 Arthur Hardy was all smiles for the crowd. I did not see Lane Kiffin, Grand Marshall #2. I presume he was somewhere below deck on the float being angry at someone.

It's a very "weird flex but okay" thing to very visibly go for your morning run on the parade route in front of everyone setting up and already drinking.

Do Bountygate next.

Bud Cort wasn't dead?

Wait, he put another one out???

I'm in a subkrewe and I stopped doing King Arthur b/c it was always like this. We'd be put behind like float 40 and the parade wouldn't start til like 3:30. We need to address that some parades are just too long. No one is watching KA at this point during the Super Bowl. Feel bad for the riders.

This is a funny perp walk.

2 PM - Femme Fatale is done at St. Charles and Napoleon. Carrolton en route. God help the last half of King Arthur on this Super Bowl Sunday.

The poor Brees kids look particularly douchey, unfortunately.

Are we in Shallow Gras?

I don't know, it feels weird for any team owner to be in the Hall of Fame. Congratulations, you were great at being a gazillionaire?

It's not that it's satire or that it's gone too far. It just seems like the wrong parade to crash. tit Rex is so niche and offbeat, it doesn't seem like the place to try to make that kind of statement. Ideally, they should have crashed Legion of Mars or, at least, a more traditional, stodgy parade.

I'm not following the Epstein stuff but I'm enjoying that there are emails like "id like to order 1 sex please . " I also don't understand flying to the other side of the planet for rumpy pumpy.

My gas bill has definitely been higher than when it was with Entergy. I even called Delta and they said, "Well yeah, it's winter." This needs more attention because there's definitely a discrepancy.

NOLA dot com really needs to stop posting "stories" like "Supercool influencer BigNutz67 says these are the top five Carnival parades. What do YOU think?" Anything in the name of "content," I guess.

Do ALL those people really need to be on the sidelines?

The NOLA READY texts from "Jeff Landry" seem to have started when we got a new mayor. Why?

Wait, what?

So Miss Manners' answer to every letter is to suggest the reader reply to the offending party with some snarky ass comment. This does not strike me as...mannerly.

The Saints should fire Dennis Allen.

I have never seen one of these knock off moon pies ever, much less caught one in a parade.

It still sucks.

Did Latoya attend the inauguration or did she skip it in one last act of pettiness?

When did the king cake industrial complex really ramp up? It feels later than the surge or post-K civic pride. When did we get all these fancy king cakes stuffed with blueberry streusel and whatever?

I really don't understand how online ads are now just somebody in their car or poorly lit bathroom talking about how celery pills made them poop better or something.

Oh yeah, Andy Dalton is still with the Panthers.