Further Confusion 2009
Back from FC. I'm lightheaded from having caught the Death on the last night, so I'll be fairly brief and let the gallery speak for itself. I'm somewhere on page 2, and very briefly at around 4:50 in this parade video. Also redstorm is the yellow cat right after, and crocuta is the second hyena at 4:25. It was my first year in the parade, so I was easily distracted and confused. I almost wore a crumpled Hawaiian shirt over my getup, due to the *shudder* "Surf Safari" theme, but thought better of it. Next year's theme, supposedly, will be "The California Gold Rush" which is… just… yeah.
Special highlights included:
-A furry (I assume) being led away by the police in tears and handcuffs as I approached the motel. When I asked the desk clerk about it he would only say "routine check." Drugs?
-The appearance of Sarah Palin (page 1). See, it's funny now that she can't do anything to us anymore for the next 4 years. That's my newspaper she's holding. See also this and this. She has 3 fursuits.
-Trying to come up with more positives… but… euuuh… So, I was at McDonalds, and this fat woman ordered about a half dozen fries, and then she kept bringing them back to the register one by one, telling the girl on the other side to replace them with hot, new fries straight from the basket. And the girl would wordlessly take the uneaten package, drop it in the trash, and wait for the machine to grease up a new batch. And then the fat lady would come back later with another package and the girl would do it again. She had this hollowed-out, thousand-yard stare on her face all the time. I felt so bad for her. I wanted to tip her $10 just for bringing me my fucking McMuffin. The woman didn't look like she was with us (or I hope not); all the furries in the room were positively flaming.
So to summarize, yeah, it was totally fun. Videos later, sometime.
Special highlights included:
-A furry (I assume) being led away by the police in tears and handcuffs as I approached the motel. When I asked the desk clerk about it he would only say "routine check." Drugs?
-The appearance of Sarah Palin (page 1). See, it's funny now that she can't do anything to us anymore for the next 4 years. That's my newspaper she's holding. See also this and this. She has 3 fursuits.
-Trying to come up with more positives… but… euuuh… So, I was at McDonalds, and this fat woman ordered about a half dozen fries, and then she kept bringing them back to the register one by one, telling the girl on the other side to replace them with hot, new fries straight from the basket. And the girl would wordlessly take the uneaten package, drop it in the trash, and wait for the machine to grease up a new batch. And then the fat lady would come back later with another package and the girl would do it again. She had this hollowed-out, thousand-yard stare on her face all the time. I felt so bad for her. I wanted to tip her $10 just for bringing me my fucking McMuffin. The woman didn't look like she was with us (or I hope not); all the furries in the room were positively flaming.
So to summarize, yeah, it was totally fun. Videos later, sometime.