Rose Parade

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I have been watching the parade since I was very young and have always loved it, "boring" or not.

Do you find other parades to be good television or just the Rose Parade? I'll admit I'm not a big fan of parades in person so it is no surprise that they are even worse on TV when the immediacy is lost. Unless I have a personal connection to the person I don't see what is interesting about the 3rd Distric Councilman waving to me from a rented Thunderbird or the marching band from a college I've never heard of playing the same songs every marching band in the country plays in.

Of course, I'm also ruined by having had to attend many really lame parades because my first wife was marching in them.

Plus, the "Rose Parade" is a Portland thing that I must insist was stolen by Pasadena 17 years before Portland thought of it. The sneaky bastards.