Heh, that is rather funny isn't it? Maybe make some pancakes today, as some kind of traditional commemoration even if you're not Catholic. [I haven't got a Mardi Gras icon so I'm posting Tegan's piccie, because she still mooches pancakes or anything else you got. She still has a delicate enough mouth to eat from chopsticks too!]

Was that trip ConDFW? I hear good things about the filking there from the Firefilk mailing list.