New Toulouse

An unidentified rodent has declared itself Big Cheese of Carnival and taken over a portion of City Hall. The large ratlike creature appeared at a balcony to deliver its first proclamation, by way of interpretive dance while holding a toy crustacean. As no dance experts were on the scene, it is difficult to know the exact meaning of the proclamation; but because of the crustacean’s straight tail, some have speculated that it is a public health warning not to eat the “dead” ones.

The Big Cheese is reportedly holed up inside a normally off-limits room upstairs. The number and volume of strange noises coming from this room have decreased since the BC took up residence.

Former mayoral candidate Jack Mondieu has almost perfected the skill of “extreme napping.”