all on a mardi gras day pt. 1

New Orleans filmmaker Royce Osborne & All on a Mardi Gras Day

Read this alongside, before, or after this post.

The first time I remember hearing late New Orleans filmmaker Royce Osborne’s name was in NYC, June 2014, from filmmaker Floyd Webb, though that couldn’t have actually been the first time I heard it.

By some strange twist of fate - initiated with my cousin’s suicide a couple weeks earlier - I’d ended up str…