The other weekend I watched San Franciscos Chinese New Year parade. It was a cold and rainy night, but a little freezing drizzle is fitting initiation for the year of the rat, who is a creature of the sewer.
My camera was accidentally set on make everything look blurry and shitty mode, so the following snapshots come courtesy of my friend Anderss iPhone. That might also explain why some of the photos seem to convey a false sense of superiority.
While I was busy scowling and shivering from the cold, these brave children were enduring the weather with panache, performing exotic rat dances and making funny hand gestures. In retrospect I feel bad heckling the kids. I just thought their face paint work was poor to middling.
Here we see a gang of dragons tilting their faces from side-to-side, as if to mock the poor rat and its meager year. Dragons dont have calendarsthey dont want to hear whose year its supposed to be. Just try to have a Chinese parade without a dragon showing up. A dozen Chinese people couldnt walk down the sidewalk together without 3 or 4 dragons slithering around.
You can barely see due to the shitty quality of the iPhones camera, but in this scene we see a bunch of rat children peeking out from little holes in a float supposedly made from cheese. Pretty amusing, but I found it kind of weird that they were tossing out handfuls of condoms. Just jokingthis was an auspiciously cute start to the year of the rat.
These ladies were twirling around in little bowls of ricejust twirling around in circles, not a care in the world. I thought it might have been funny to start chasing them with a pair of giant chopsticks.
Goodnight, Chinese New Year parade. Hopefully next year you’ll celebrate an animal not quite so emblematic of filth and disease, such as maggots or syphilis bacteria.
Hahaha, that was awesomely funny!
HA HA “My camera was accidentally set on make everything look blurry and shitty”. I thought my camera was the only one with that “feature”.
Haha, I really like this one! Especially the false sense of superiority part. =D
You never fail to amuse me sir. It’s like the highlight of my day.
I’m writing this comment from my iPhone, which explains its false sense of superiority.
too funny. too.
This post gave me another boner. BRAVO!
I agree with Jane, too funny. You so should have chased the rice bowls 😛
those are lion dances
Well, they were dragons, they had long dragon tails. Chinese dragons have faces like lions. Besides, if they were lions, still–wait for your year, guys.
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