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Halifax…Great city… Lousy Xmas parade! Move it to daylight hours and on a Sunday. Take a look at most other major Canadian cities and how they do it. Take the hint! That’s how it’s supposed to be! —Scrooge
This article appears in Nov 18-24, 2010.
55 Comments
Heh heh… uh, well, MONCTON’s parade is at night, and on a Saturday, and it’s pretty kick ass. (Everyone in Halifax loves Moncton, right?)
I’m excited to see my first Parade of Lights this year. It’s more exciting for kids and families for it to be at night. It’s more beautiful, less commercial.
So fuck off, OP.
How exactly is the Parade of “Lights” going to work out in the daylight?
It’s not a Xmas Parade – that would be Jesocentric and exclusionist. It’s official title is “The Holiday Parade of Unquenchable Despair”. If you aren’t part of the solution; you are a solid or gas.
Snoop’s got it. OP, you’re dumb.
Yeah… Good idea, let’s have the parade of LIGHTS in the afternoon on Sunday, because that should accentuate them. Go the fuck back to Ontario where everything is built from a concrete mold, and take your upper Canadian snobbery with you.
Makes it harder to pick pockets in the daytime. Halifax does it at night to support the bums and hobos.
Know what? Let’s get rid of it altogether.
It’s not event that late – it’s at 6pm! Just late enough for it to be dark. I think it’s a great time to start.
Snoop got it right. And 6pm is not too late! and I’m so excited for the parade…my little guy has already started his letter to Santa to give to the letter collectors….I already have a bag of food ready and a toy for the donation trucks. I love this season!!!! & I hate scrooge! Like Harper said go back to upper Canada with that attitude (and that’s coming from someone born in Ontario….but considers them self a Maritimer for life!)
So we’re still planning for a bitcher’s summit at the parade, right?
i was born in ottawa rc. where were you hatched? hope your little guy has fun, i try not to go to events with small children…makes me a maudlin mummy^^
Awwwww Painey. It’s down to 5 weeks and a wakeup now, right? ♥Mouse Ears♥ to Sad Mom.
Don’t know about a Bitcher’s Summit Brendon, but if anyone wants a break from sodden majorettes and yet another migraine triggering rendition of Snoopy’s Xmas, y’all know where to find me.
I had planned on stopping in sometime on Saturday, actually.
Kule B-Boy. The in-house crew are all be-spectacled but I am the only one who is clean-shaven. If I’m not on the desk, I’m usually playing in the history stacks on the 2nd floor.
Eeeexcellent. I’ll be wearing a brown leather jacket and a black fedora.
Yeah Ottawa’s a lot nicer then my home town of Brampton. My mother’s whole side of the family still lives there in the same brick houses – the rest of my family are in Caledon, Keswick and Mississauga. I moved here when I was 8.
I want to bring the little guy by your shop for some cookies…but I can’t figure out any clues as to where you or Ivan are….lol. We get to the parade pretty early…..lawn chairs and all.
I was born in Brampton as well… small world.
I knew we had some weird connection z. lol
i lived in ottawa three times…we moved a lot. now amherst that’s a happening spot^^
On Caturdays, Ivan works at a bookstore with a three-letter name on the corner of Barrington & “young male noble”. I have no idea about, PG, though. She’s very secretive.
Disagree with the main thrust of this, but at least OP hit the nail on the head by calling it a “Christmas Parade”!! Parade of lights…. what kind of PC BS is that??
I lived in ottawa and I LOVED it! I was homesick at the time, but the more time that passes, the more I actually miss it and realize what a great city it really is. I’d move back in a heart beat 🙂
I love Ottawa – trip planned there in January!!
Amherst is the armpit of the maritimes. Yack!
I might be in Saturday too, Ivan – maybe I’ll see ya there, orgasmdude.
i went to french immersion kindergarten in amherst. we lived there for a year, i only remember the house we lived in. i thought there were bodies buried in the dirt cellar
aaaaaand…. there probably were.
Let’s not forget it’s for the kids people, and they love it ! To us adults it seems pretty lame but for the kids it’s exiciting. So unless you still believe in Santa, get over it.
You mean there’s no Santa?
>_<
Of course there is, PK – He’ll be in the Parade!
Oh. Phewf. You had me worried there for a second!
So your solution to the parade being too lame is to lame it up even more by moving it to Sunday afternoon? That’s like saying that a party is too lame and solving the problem by serving caffeine-free diet coke instead of booze.
What’s the point of seeing all them pretty lights in the daytime?
TO KEEP THE VAMPIRES AWAY. jk 🙂
a parade of lights in the daytime, now there’s a new novel fucking idea. lights, daytime? how about having it on a sunday, would that not be better too?
Call it the Christmas Parade and maybe I’ll go to it. What’s with the stupid PC shit? I go to Truro and watch a real parade.
Calling it a Santa Claus Parade would be more appropriate than calling it a Christmas Parade as the star of the show is Santa, not the baby Jesus. In the name of the Father, the Santa and the holy ghost…
I’ve always wanted to check out a parade for either Kwanza, Eid, Hannukah and Saturnalia.
When is the Kwanza Parade?
I went for the first 6 or 7 floats, then back to the warm pub with me!! Only in Halifax would the thrid float feature giant dancing lobsters in the Christmas Parade…. ha ha.
Hey Ivan, I popped into the shop on Saturday, but I was too shy to say hi. Maybe next time. That and my OCD boyfriend was having a panic attack along with hyperventilation – I tried explaining that there’s a system, but it was too much for him. Don’t think I didn’t tease him about it!! :~)
I didn’t go see the parade but I would have loved to see a giant dancing lobster.
Awwww Ralmn – And I was smiling at every girl that came in. Now we’re going to be known as “that skeevy old dude” bookstore. Next time, baby. Next time.
It was the “Lobsters in a Pot” float that killed me. Nothing says Xmas like plunging a live animal into boiling water *Narf*
lovin the avatar newt…leave the boyfriend t’home next time ralmn^^^
I just love how our Newt is able to mine the rich veins of japanese culture to find the most disturbing images possible. Like – “Annual Gift Giving Bear with Enormous Genitals”. (You just know that under the Santa suit that thing has preternaturally huge goolies.)
Aren’t you already known as “that skeevy old dude” bookstore, Ivan? He heh. Did you ever find that CD you were looking for? I hear Joel just isn’ t good enough for you.
Yup, my next foray will be solo. Poor guy, I thought he’d enjoy it as much as I do. Not everyone can appreciate the happy chaos and overwhelming leaning towers of written word, I suppose.
Heh Heh – A Stalker! GIGGITY. Nope, we didn’t find Big Surf 2 – had to make do with some classic Johnny Cash. After warning people not to lean against the front windows because we aren’t prepared to call 911 or clean up blood if they come crashing through – we just settled for taking pictures of them with the wooden willy bottle opener positioned provocatively behind them. But those files are sealed until 2110. Next time take your lad up to Aisle 4 on the second floor – the War books. That’s my section and it’s always immaculate. RAWK >; )
I went to the parade! Never seen any of you – I was looking out for white hats and red flowers and fedoras, and some fat dude, and nothin!
I froze my ass off with my little guy and he was so tired. And these 4 little punk teenagers decided to stand on the road in front of us – after I spent almost 2 hours in that spot before the damn thing started! and I’m too nice to say get the fuck out my way (but my boyfriend and sister are pretty vocal and bossy so they did it for me.) Either way Christmas has officially begun. Tree goes up this week!!
i watched the feed on eastlink, it looked really cold. i was hoping your little guy stayed warm. nice avatar tho i miss marge^^
I must have walked right behind you RC. what a nightmare trying to catch a bus with them all re-routed on sackville st.
Aw! Love the avatar! I was going to try to find a lobster av if the work stuff slowed down today. 🙂 You beat me to it.
The little guy stayed warm – on my lap in a full snow suit wrapped in a blanket, hat & gloves. His fav part was Darth Vader in the crime stoppers jail. I was where I said I`d be z but anyone looking could easily mix up me and my sister.
lol Ralmn…I love lobsters
Well, the dancing ones in the parade were extra spectacular. Pfft. Only in Halifax.
I was going to go to SGR, but as I was walking up South Park St. I stumbled upon a barricade and a bunch of people so I stayed there.
anyone get hit by flying treats?
Nope. The mayor sure was looking dapper with his attempt at a movember mustache and his hat on backwards handing out candy canes. I’d never take a treat from him, yikes!!
I didn’t notice His Mayorness.
Youz be missin’ a ‘n’ dere boi