We love Mardi Gras.  This picture is from our trip to New Orleans in 2011.  You can see more pictures by clicking HERE.

In Burlington, we’ll be celebrating on March 3.  To see our memories from past BTV parades, click HERE.

We are going to scratch it right out of a BOX. Go to the store and buy yourself a box of Zatarain’s New Orleans Style Red Beans and Rice. Follow the easy cooking directions. Now I like to add a small onion chopped and I picked up some Cajun Style Andouille, this is a smoked pork sausage. Slice the sausage and throw it in the pot with the Red Beans and Rice. Now while this is simmering fix yourself some Cornbread. I like to use the Betty Crocker Cornbread Mix, just follow the directions on the back of the package. They go great together.

That’s what professional poker player Jason Somerville is telling people in a recent blog post.

“I always knew I wasn’t straight, but I never spoke a word of it for twenty two years, and nobody really ever knew otherwise,” Somerville writes.” I dated women exclusively through my teens and early 20s, doing my best to convince myself that it wasn’t something I had to pursue, that maybe I’d grow out of it, that I’d be happier with women anyway, that I just should focus on other things. After a lot of struggling and a lot of anxiety, I eventually came out to one of my close friends when I was 22. That same year, the second and third people I came out to were my parents (probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done), from which I basically received the not-exactly-what-I-needed reaction of ‘keep it to yourself, don’t tell anyone.’ I told very few people from then until I was 24 (by the way, my parents are way better now).”

Somerville says he decided to begin putting his happiness his first and making money second (he won nearly half a million dollars at the 2011 World Series of Poker,  playing No-Limit, Hold ‘Em).

I’d hit that.

We also had Live Art by Dostie who owns Dostie Bros. Frame Shop. Dostie is also part of the Team Vermont who just returned from Lake Geneva, Wis. winning the National Snow Sculpting Competition. Congrats!

Lucy Belle accompianed me to the station… we’re not sure how “fracking” is connected to drag queens… do you?

Thank you Lucy… but apparently Jonathan was smitten..

But I hooked up with Daniel Bolles from Seven Days…

Margaurite was back at the Hot Damn Trailor Park in Beaver Pond, VT working on our outfits for the Drag Ball… Talk about a sweatshop… but we’ll LOOK GREAT!!

Get your tickets NOW… by going HERE.