Masked Observer’s Mellow MoonPies celebrate a unique season
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
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Friends, roamers, revelers, I beg your attention. There is plenty of room around the fractured Column of Life, for Folly and Death have whirled, and it’s now time for you to save the world. Just as you saved Mardi Gras.
The Lenten season spares so few of us, both justifying the Carnival indulgence that precedes it, and offering the space needed to reflect and recover. The last 11 months necessitate healthy doses of both, and while we’re not out of the woods yet, the Observer has a feeling that we’re heading in the right direction.
Masked Observer strolls among marauders and Midtowners
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
Posted Feb 05, 2021
A house on Demouy Avenue in Midtown Mobile is seen during a recent Mardi Gras event featuring the Blow House Brass Band.
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Editor’s note:
The Press-Register holds exclusive global rights to reportage of the Masked Observer, a mysterious denizen of the leisure class who covers the local
“Every day takes figuring out all over again how to live.”
When Dark Hallway said it from the shroud of downtown Mobile’s uncomfortable silence, it struck the Observer as a fittingly austere mantra on what should have been a cacophonous Carnival eve. Yet the glint in the surly bodyguard’s eye belied the standard lament that’s become so commonplace during this year’s truncated Mardi Gras celebration.