Best Mardi Gras costume ever (Bartender Edition)

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is essentially a day-long series of double takes, interrupted by the occasional drink. Today was unusual even by those standards.

My habit on Mardi Gras day is to track down Chris Hannah of Arnaud's French 75 Bar. He's usually prowling around the French Quarter pushing a shopping cart with an Igloo cooler filled with some delicious drink. Today was no exception; I found him at St. Phillip and Royal streets with a vat of Cornado Luau Special. We fell in behind the St. Ann Parade, and ended up at Jackson Square.

Where I suffered the day's biggest double-take. Brett Martin, the great writer and contributing editor at GQ magazine, showed up in costume... as Chris Hannah.

He'd found identical eye glasses, swiped an Arnaud's jacket and name-tag (thanks to a co-conspirator,) and then shaved his head last night. Martin arrived without fanfare at Jackson Square and asked Hannah for a drink.

Hannah gave him the eye, then looked him up and down, eventualling focusing on the black pants — which weren't true tux pants and were the only inauthentic part of Martin's outift.

"Nice pants, jackass," Hannah said.

Happy Mardi Gras, y'all.