Just about out of words...

Cajun Mardi Gras: Webcam at Houma Today; Mardi Gras activities in rural Acadiana; Eunice has been whooping it up for days. Bands start at 10 a.m., parade at 3.

Recipes: Cajun Cook-off for the mildly interested, or the mother lode, A Cajun Family's Recipe Collection.

All the way: The Cartoons of Mr. Fish: a Selection at Harper's. Biting, he spares no one. He is Dwayne Booth.

A ballpoint Website, unlined pages : At balalar.ru the graphics, such as the animated guestbook at right, are hand-drawn; the type is the same familiar blue, and more drawings are sprinkled among its photos and text. Ballpoint pens didn't make the trip to the Web, so it's an eyeful.

It's in Russian, which makes it entirely nonverbal to me.

But that doesn't mean it isn't eloquent. Here's a detail of one of its photos, on a page with yet more nice doodles, and links to 17 more photos:

'Indie-rock sensation':The Arcade Fire in Concert. The Montreal band in a 77-minute NYC concert broadcast live Saturday by NPR from a church in the Village.

Starts off slow, but gets there.

The Arcade Fire formed in Montreal in 2003 around the husband-wife duo of Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, with Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara. Funeral drummer Howard Bilerman has since left the band.

The Arcade Fire makes emotionally charged, densely layered and orchestrated songs, led by Butler's heartbreaking voice. They're known for unusually captivating live performances, with band members repeatedly changing instruments and scrambling over one another in a musical frenzy.

The band spent most of 2006 recording their self-produced new album in the basement of a church in a small town outside of Montreal. They also traveled to Budapest to record an orchestra and military choir...

Stay for the encores, My Body Is A Cage and Neon Bible, the title track of their first album. Here's the Times review:

...upbeat, homemade anthems that pile on instruments — accordion, glockenspiel, Moog, hurdy-gurdy — and rise to group singalongs and wordless pop choruses.

Music to blog to.

All downhill since then: The last minutes of John Kennedy's life, and of Jackie's youth. Video at The Sixth Floor Museum.

Leave 'em (alone): Your fears erased here daily. The photographer.

Kinetic art: Painted cats, at $15,000 a pop, and it grows out every three months. Some are tacky, some striking. Does the cat mind?

Unfurl me:
NFCDT is a Flash puzzle. Fans of Samarost will get it immediately. For everybody else, mouse around what you see. If it pulses, click it. Things will happen.

Archifunk: Strange Houses Around The World.

You calling a Gaudi strange?