I’ve just learned that not only does Kansas City have an annual Mardi Gras parade, however modest, but at this year’s shindig the neopsychedelic experimental noise pop band the Flaming Lips will be given a key to the city. What’s the connection? I’m not sure. The Lips are from Oklahoma City, which, like KC, is in the midwest. Beyond that, though, I’m stumped. L’s pronouncement: “I think you just file this under news of the weird.”