San Jose City Living

Santa Clara street during Mardi Gras - busy but not too bad.

It’s true, San Jose’s Downtown Mardi Gras was absolutely boring.  Sure it was a Tuesday night but come on!

Not only did the police OVER populate and ruin any chance of a good time, most of the stores closed early, and there really wasn’t anything exciting going on.

I spent about an hour scoping the scene with some friends trying to find the fun stuff to do.  Unfortunately for us, we aren’t really the “thug money” types that head into Tunes and get plaster faced while getting man-squished by “Man Jose’s” residents and visitors.

To add to the boringness, SJ Bar and Grill, Gordon Biersch, and other regular fun spots were either closed or just not exciting.  In the whole night I could probably count only 30 beaded necklaces.  San Jose definitely doesn’t hold a torch to… I won’t even say New Orleans because it’s obvious we don’t come close.  Modesto probably had a better time!

I do have to say though, I am excited at the small fact that the place didn’t get torn up.  Sure some police horse poo on the ground, dumbass flyers of stuff we could care less about littered on the ground, but that’s a given on just about any night.

All that seemed to walk the streets tonight was the police, the gangster wanabes, and the drunk girls with short skirts that couldn’t entice a goat.

That’s my opinion.  What’s your’s?  And here’s some photos of downtown as we saw it: