LIVE - from Pasadena California - The Official Rose Parade Thread!

[SouthPasadenaDem]

Everyone should feel free to watch for protestors and post your sightings here - as well as alll the dishy critique of the floats and other entries you can come up with (RONNYKMARSHALL where are you?)

It's 8:00 a.m. here in sunny Pasadena, California - LET THE PARADE BEGIN!

(edited for punctuation)

[SouthPasadenaDem]

1. And with the stealth warplanes, the parade starts.

And the crowd cheers. No bomber this year. Just fighter planes.

[wtmusic]

3. GO USA!

The B2 is in the shop -- damn those Chinese parts!

[tekisui]

2. I have it on,

Watching for protests. Hopefully someone will get one off that can't be missed.

[msedano]

4. Did the Queen just stomp on her tiara?

as she passed Rodin's The Thinker at the Norton Simon Museum of Art, she suddenly stands, rips the jeweled crown off her coif, tosses it on the deck and crushes it with a fierce heel stomp and a loud "Hay-yah! F*ck Turkey!"

http://www.pcccourier.com/wp-content/uploads/rosecourt/index.html

[SouthPasadenaDem]

5. One can only hope ...

n/t.

[jaysunb]

6. I'm walking up to the corner right now

I'm down about mile 3...the people have been pouring in since before dawn ( those that didn't sleep on the side walk.)

I'll send a pic later.

[supernova]

7. I'm watching HGTV.. no commercials!

[SouthPasadenaDem]

8. Okay - that Honda Taxicab-to-spaceship float was cute

but the pollution it was spewing was appalling.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

9. OMG! somebody was holding up a Ron Paul sign. Yuck.

Above the band that was just on. The college band that John Philips Sousa liked.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

10. Damn.

They keep holding up that Ron Paul sign.

[poisonivy]

DK sign

behind the VMI Band

[ChazII]

24. Saw that

and constitution banner too

[AnnieBW]

53. Paultards are everywhere!

I think they were sniffing a little too much flower glue.

[bahrbearian]

11. Impeach and then a Kucinich

[SouthPasadenaDem]

18. Oh good. The Impeach and Kucinich signs

are getting more airplay. (9:10 a.m. pasadena time.)

[SouthPasadenaDem]

12. The Japanese "Green" band in the red shirts

were really good. And with an environmental message.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

13. Yay. The South Pasadena float!

Hometown pride! This is one of only six self-built floats this year. Our volunteers never disappoint.

(This float goes up about four blocks from my place. It's fascinating to watch the process.)

[ronnykmarshall]

15. Yeah South Pasadena!

[SouthPasadenaDem]

17. Ronnie!

We've been waiting for you. I'm at home too.

[ronnykmarshall]

14. I'm at home

Maybe next year. We'll be closer to Pasadena.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

16. Yay. Trader Joe's.

There are corporate floats we like, after all.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

19. Oh, look. It's Mayor Ambition!

(Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles.)

Bet you a nickel he runs for Governor of California when Arnold's termed out.

[ronnykmarshall]

21. You can bank on that.

[ronnykmarshall]

Check it out.

As he passed the protesters with the Impeach signs, he pointed and gave them the peace sign!

[Tektonik]

25. Definitely and in eight years I'd bet on him being a presidential candidate

[TahitiNut]

50. Will he be on the PRI or PAN line?

:evilgrin:

[ronnykmarshall]

20. Did you see the security around the Chinese float?

AND a protester got out on the street in front of it!

Tonights news should be interesting.

On a side note, the float was really cool.

[AnnieBW]

54. Was that the one with the Olympics theme?

HGTV didn't show any protestors.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

22. GO DODGERS.

The first-ever float from our boys in blue, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

[ronnykmarshall]

27. Great float.

Thank god you're a UCLA fan. Cuz you're gonna slap me for being a Giants fan. :hide:

[SouthPasadenaDem]

30. Naah. you're forgiven.

You did live in San Francisco, after all.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

23. Even though I'm a UCLA fan,

The USC marching band rocks.

[ronnykmarshall]

26. Same here.

I was just saying the same thing.

Good luck, SC.

But I'm always a Bruin fan.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

28. In re the Lion's Club float

What on earth is "Uva Grass"? Pronounced "oovah".

Is that the fuzzy stuff on the lion's beard?

[B Calm]

29. I look for Illinois to surprise everyone in the Rose Bowl.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

31. Wow. That was short.

Under two hours total.

If anyone planned to follow the parade in protest, they sure got lost in the crowd evacuating the bleachers.

I'm curious to know - there were supposed to be spontaneous protest "events" along the parade route - not just in front of the cameras at Orange Grove and Colorado. Any news?

[ronnykmarshall]

32. I saw some the Freedie Phelps types

I've got CH 5 on and they are running the whole parade again.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

33. Yeah. The end-of-the-world-repent-now people

have been at the end of the parade every year I can remember, even from my childhood, and I'm over 40.

I was hoping some better freaks, like maybe the protest zombies or something else in costume (since fabulous costume would go otherwise unnoticed then and there.) Sigh.

[proud2BlibKansan]

51. Yes I have friends who sent out emails with pictures of their signs.

I just now saw one. I have it on tape, It's at the 56 minute mark.

Wait - not one. THREE Impeach signs. Woohoo!!

[sandnsea]

34. Repeat on the Travel Channel

For anyone who missed it.

[ronnykmarshall]

36. Same on CH 5 in LA.

This is my favorite parade.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

41. Okay so

Where was Stephanie Edwards? I missed her entirely.

[ronnykmarshall]

47. Don't you hate that?

She's a tradition.

I love her and miss her.

Bastards!

[Cleita]

35. So this seemed more equestrian and Western than

previous parades. There was also very little international participation than in the past other than the Chinese presence. I'm surprised the Saudi family didn't have a float.

The weather was pleasant however.

[ronnykmarshall]

37. Was it last year or the year before ...

major rain.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

40. Two years ago.

The year Sandra Day O'Connor was the Grand Marshall.

It poured. First time in 50 years. Coincidence or divine retribution? You be the judge.

[ronnykmarshall]

46. Here's some protests pics!

[blogslut]

56. And here's one more

[blogslut]

57. Even more!

[SouthPasadenaDem]

38. There were a lot of equestrian units.

Can you just imagine a Saudi float?

[ronnykmarshall]

39. That's a lot of horse poop.

The equestrains, not the Saudis.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

52. Rumour is that all new white-suits (tournament volunteers)

must do horse poop duty their first couple of years. Everyone.

[Cleita]

42. It was like they were being used for filler for the lack

of float entries. It seems we are being boycotted by the international community that formerly had entries. I wonder why? :sarcasm:

If the Saudi float had belly dancers, it could be fun.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

44. Did you hear how many total floats they had?

There were only six self-built ones which seems like half as many as usual.

There were years in the early 90's when there were over 100 floats.

[AnnieBW]

55. A gushing oil well

With * kissing a sheik's butt.

[Cleita]

58. That I would have paid to see! LOL! n/t

[MzNov]

43. Great Parade. Loved the Impeach sign.

I didn't see the Kucinich sign but it's playing again for the 2nd time.

I really liked these two hosts. They weren't on camera and making total idiots of themselves. Good job KTLA.

:bounce:

[ronnykmarshall]

48. Yeah, but no Stephanie Edwards!

I do like the new lady, but Stephanie should be there.

[SouthPasadenaDem]

45. Favorite float sub-thread. Post yours.

I really liked the day-of-the-dead float. The one Raoul Rodriguez and his parrot rode. And a mariachi band.

[ronnykmarshall]

49. Loved that one too.

I also liked the one with the Hula Frog.