Happy Day After Columbus Day! (as observed by the Italian mafia)

Hello all,

I write you today from the porch on the steps of the New York public library, the one with the big stone lions on the front. I am flanked by a man "performing" some incoherent, slightly Mexican rap while invading everyone's personal space, yet he still apologized for bumping me, and a man yelling at the wall of the library.Oddly enough there is a difference between the two. Good times.

As for those of you who are avid readers of this blog and or know me, the situation marginally gets worse and simultaneously slightly not worse, maybe. The boy and girl still want me gone and threaten to kick me out, but Josh is trying extra hard, allegedly. Seriously all this situation needs is perspective.

ANYWAYS, yesterday was Columbus Day and I watched my first live NYC parade I took pictures to show how it went. YAY! Mind you, this was no Thanksgiving Day parade so don't be to excited, I imagine that all these m-o-o-k-s came from Jersey, which I can only assume is like saying people came from Kentucky, it's not a good thing.


The parade was filled with some pretty crappy floats. We made better ones when I was in high school.........but that's cause we rocked!


These men had hats covered in very fancy and luscious plumes. They were almost the most expensive hats in the parade, seconded only by some of the extensions the women were wearing.


From what I can assume these men were not elected officials but self-proclaimed, titular gods of the Italian community. Can anyone say mafia?


All the cops bikes were lit up, it was very pretty, the picture doesn't do it justice. But come to think of it, there around 50 cops on bikes, more than 200 dealing with traffic and the parade route, the mafia was there too, who was in the Italian restaurants?


There were 4 or 5 high school bands playing at the parade, everyone filled with ugliest, most ethnically diverse group of acne covered teenagers I have ever seen. They played well, but man were they unattractive. After realizing that they were so hideous, I thought, "Well, I can't take a picture of that. I'm really doing the world a service by not condoning ugly children." But, there was this little boy FlAGette in the mix, struttin' his stuff, poc-faced, bad hair and all. I just thought wow, that's confidence like I never want.


This was a float with Teddy Roosevelt, a large version of Napoleon, and a large steel ship.........I did not see the connection. I'm no history buff, so if you know please explain.



This lady was awesome, by far the best part of the parade. She was singing Italian songs and in her down time would yell at the crowd in Italian and only accept responses back in Italian. She was very gracious if you repeated her or spoke of you own accord. I had no idea what she was saying but you knew what her point was. "Try speaking my language or my husband and his friends, walking in the beginning of the parade, will come back here and kill you. Happy Columbus Day!"


This poor man had no car, float, candy to hand out, or even a jacket. But he sure did have a giant sign that said "Weiner" behind him being carried by a menacing looking Jewish guy. I felt so sorry for him. Everyone was laughing at him, I was too that's why I took a picture!


"Hey Mom, why is there a float with a jazz band, the Pink Panther, Sweet and Low, and old pictures of Regis Philbin in the Columbus Day parade?"
"I don't know, I just don't know."

I said that that singing woman was the best part of the day but as per usual it was the celebrity sighting of Will Forte from SNL. I have soon many celebrities since I have been here Amy Poehler, Rachael Dratch, , Christian Slater, that woman who plays Ugly Betty's older sister, Hunter Parish from Weeds, a huge hand full of Broadway stars and this morning the crew from the Today show.