can i just get over myself and enjoy this parade and being with my family? or is this a case of the sheer overwhelming blandness of american culture once again driving someone into a rage?
*for the record, elmo sucks, mainly because his warm, fuzzy cooing 'my best friend is a fish!' bullshit was designed to take screen time away from GROVER, the coolest muppet to grace sesame street.
― maura, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Will, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
maura, the day you can get over it and enjoy it with your family is the day that a small part of you dies. fight the power. or just start drinking early, like i have.
― jess, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
new years day 1998, woke up at 6 am with a screaming hellbound hangover in my girlfriends house south of broad st. who had already departed that morning for home in virginia. by the time i had showered and got my shit together and stumbled into the harsh daylight of regret (and the outside) i had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE PARADE. i stepped into the middle of broad st., completely oblivious to the masses of people thronging the area around broad and pine, until i was SWEPT UP in the middle of a mummer brigade. disoriented and confuzzled, i walked with those banjo playin freeks for four blocks, until a cop chased me off. i hate the mummers.
(cue someone, anyone: what in the HELL are the mummers?)
― Mark C, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ronan, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Maria, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andy, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― turner, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 November 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 November 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 November 2003 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 November 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 27 November 2003 18:19 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 27 November 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 27 November 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 November 2003 19:05 (twenty years ago) link
And great entertainment value!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 November 2003 19:14 (twenty years ago) link
Two women were killed, six police officers were shot and about 50 bystanders were injured April 27, 1979, when Ira Attebery went on a shooting rampage about a half-hour before the scheduled start of the Battle of Flowers Parade. Attebery's recreational vehicle was parked at a tire company at Broadway and East Grayson Street, the parade's starting point. He emerged from the vehicle shooting, ducked back inside and eventually shot himself to death. The Battle of Flowers was canceled that year.
― Tenacious Dee (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 27 November 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
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― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 November 2003 21:43 (twenty years ago) link
Watching the parade now! Have seem Smurfettes, Spiderman, Joan Jett singing on a float, tons of boybands, Ariana Grande singing to Dora the Explorer...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
Oh no, its over. There's drunk Santa. Dog show up next
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 November 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ92eyxnxmQ
― markers, Thursday, 28 November 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
A marching band played the Amboy Dukes' "Journey To The Center Of The Mind." Adding insult to injury, Matt Lauer said the song was originally done by "the Asbury Dukes." Thanksgiving is ruined.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 28 November 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
part of me hoping for a balloon to snap it's moorings in the high winds
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 November 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link
Hear about this on the radio on the way to my folks. It was followed by a really short human-interest story about people wishing stores would close on Thanksgiving so workers could be w their families. Then the DJ listed all of the stores that were staying open, which was more or less all the stores w huge floats in the parade.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 29 November 2013 01:59 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JKPNdcWsAk#t=30
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 29 November 2013 02:10 (ten years ago) link
I believe in being a "gamer" about it. In the USA, XMas is part of an ongoing religious war in which everything that is godless and unholy about capitalism teams up with humorless religious forces to overwhelm us with crappy holiday sentiment. In my family we believe in toughing it out for the sake of not losing our stake in this dispute.
I always enjoyed the parade for its unintentional (?) humor. People dancing in animal costumes, giant hot air stuffed animals, a peek at what's on Broadway....
Also it was worth it to see Dora the Explorer attempt to funk out. Meanwhile, the Motown dancers were horrid - have they never watched The Temps? Or maybe it was too cold. Also a couple of the dancers slipped and nearly fell.
It seemed though that the participants had good humor about it. And marching bands are cool. Go Spartans!!!
― Sweetfrosti (I M Losted), Friday, 29 November 2013 03:05 (ten years ago) link