The Holiday Parade of The Frisk

Ok, so lets get to it. The Chronicle Herald's Holiday Parade of Lights was this weekend. For those of you out-of-towners, it's technically the Santa Clause parade of Halifax. When I was sent the event on Facebook, I had every intention of going. Mostly because even silly little quasi 'events' like that distract from the reality that my social life is indeed, nonexistent. However, by the time Saturday hit I just wasn't feeling it.

Doing a quick cost/benefit analysis it made more sense to just miss it entirely. Why? Well, I went two years ago with some peeps. From what I remember it was ass-numbing cold, crowded on Barrington Street, and the floats weren't even that great. Most of them reminded me of kids drawings from kindergarten. You know, the kind they bring home that you only want to encourage because hey, at least they're doing it and exercising their creativity, but you're kinda bummed when you have to cover that lotto ticket on your fridge from three weeks ago that still could be a winner with a crude rendition of Bob the Builder that looks more like one of the Dozers from Fraggle Rock after one too many cocktails. But I digress.

So I thought, what can I do to make this more interesting for myself? Well, for anyone who's up to the challenge, I'm willing to throw full financial backing (which isn't much) behind any kind of float idea that sees Bruce Frisko dressed as Hermey the elf from that stop-motion Rudolph movie while the Abominable snowman chases him around with mistletoe. Bonus points if Steve Murphy plays the Abominable snowman. Throw some lights on that mess and you've got yourself a winner! And now...... I sit and wait.

Hit it...

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