Out with Kim, Laura, and Chris in St. Paul for the Grand Old Day celebration and parade.
After being up till 3:30am for the Ike Reilly Assassination show last night at Station 4 in St. Paul, waking up at 7:30am to walk 6 miles and sit in the sun during a lame ass parade was exactly what I wanted to do today.
We saw many exciting displays during the parade including Saturn cars (I’m surprised they didn’t fucking break down in the middle of the road), the North Star Gay Rodeo Association, and Amy Klobuchar’s unbelievably obnoxious trifold with her completely fake smile on the front. Fuck, how can you possibly be a politican when you can even have a convincing smile?
The float for the Hopkins Raspberry Festival had to be, by far, the most fucking obnoxious of the parade. The music was lame, loud, and certainly didn’t fit their float theme. They had a teeter totter with two “Queens” going up and down as well as a furry green and white swining throne for the lead Queen. Lame.
We were worried that the kids in front of us, brandishing their noisemaker of choice, a cowbell, would be annoying and obnoxious the entire time. They weren’t. Instead, it was their dumbass mother who was ringing that god damn bell the entire parade trying to get candy, stickers, and beads. If you want beads in a fucking parade, do it Mardi Gras style!
See all the pictures from today here (mobile).
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