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I'm leaving for the airport soon where I will, fingers crossed, catch a non-stop flight back to Chicago and then take the El and a cab and finally stumble in the door where, fingers crossed, BISMOW will have made me my most favorite lemon chicken dinner that he makes so well. 

My suitcase is crammed full of good throws, including a Ragin Cajun set of beads with oyster & Tabasco sauce charms, a fleur-de-lis heart bead, about 10 strands of the ever coveted glass beads, 4 strands of the super-rare black beads, and some gnarly looking orange crawfish beads. And some special dubloons, and a few other signature throws, such as Val Kilmer thrown King of Bacchus beads. Aaaaaand a partridge in a pear tree. Or a golden coconut from the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club. Which, ya know, was once a source of litigation (hey this is Legally Blonde Ambition...): 

"Of all the throws to rain down from the many floats in the parades during Carnival, the Zulu coconut or "golden nugget" is the most sought after. The earliest reference to the coconut appears to be about 1910 when the coconuts were given from the floats in their natural "hairy" state. Some years later there is a reference to Lucas, "the sign painter," scraping and painting the coconuts. This, in all likelihood was the forerunner to the beautifully decorated coconuts we see today. Just as everything else in Zulu history, the coconut is not without controversy. With the proliferation of law suits from people alleging injury from thrown coconuts, the organization was unable to get insurance coverage in 1987. So that year, the time honored tradition was suspended. After much lobbying, the Louisiana Legislature passed B188, aptly dubbed the "coconut bill," which excluded the coconut from liability for alleged injuries arising from the coconuts handed from the floats. On July 8, 1988, then governor Edwards signed the bill into law." 

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