Although it is currently lent, I have chosen to finish the Carnival A-Z so that I can move on to other topics and have this collection completed.

I know that it seems to be a bit of a stretch, but X-Rays are best Carnival themed topic I could come up with for the letter "X". Now, you may be asking "How the heck are X-Rays Carnival themed?" Many people, even life long New Orleanians - myself included until about a year ago, would not understand this connection because they have not witnessed skeletons parading around the streets of the downtown neighborhoods of New Orleans early on the morning of Mardi Gras Day. These Groups are the Skull and Bones groups. They tend to get overshadowed on Mardi Gras morning by Rex and Zulu, the plentiful marching groups, Bourbon Street hijinks, Carnival Day Crime, Mardi Gras Indians, and the Meeting of the Courts.

I honestly, don't know much about them; Everything I do know I learned from a WYES documentary and from this article on the North Side Skull and Bones Gang (scroll to the bottom). If you have the oportunity to leatrn about them, I would say take the time. If you know anything about them that wasn't mentioned in that link, please share it in the comments. If I can get some more info I'll post it here (I'm working on it).