November 27, 2005 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Click on the picture of…whatever the hell that is…or here for a Quick Time clip of this year’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC. Three hours of entertainment whittled down to 2.4 minutes. Note: there’s a weird minute long dead screen at the end of the video, I don’t know why. After the final credit there’s a whole lot of nothing. Ignore it.
It’s one of the city’s best parades (particularly to those of us who never completely grew up), complete with marching bands, fancy floats, giant balloons, (semi)celebrities, and lots and lots of clowns. Way too many clowns, if you ask me. And am I the only one who didn’t know that the NYPD had a marching band? They rocked!
The parade is always a packed house, so you have to get there super early to snag good parade-watching real estate. We arrived at just before 7am; two hours before the starting time…and the parade started a mile uptown.
The parade is pretty lame on tv. They put too much focus on the endpoint at Macy’s. Watching a parade means watching a parade pass by. Like in the song. There’s no song called “When The Parade Gets To Al Roker And Everybody Lip-Synchs”.
To feel like you were really there, watch this standing up with ice cubes in your shorts. Enjoy.
November 28, 2005
@ 11:34 am
OH it is a dream of mine to see it one day. Thanks for this.
November 28, 2005
@ 2:45 pm
I was thinking about you on Thanksgiving since you said you had to work. Sounds like you had a pretty good day after all.
I couldn’t even watch the parade this year. So sad.
November 28, 2005
@ 3:29 pm
That was very cool! Kudos for getting up that early, too.
November 29, 2005
@ 4:18 pm
You’re right, it does definitely look better when you’re actually there than on TV. Glad you’re able to post the video! And I’m glad I could watch the video and not have to stand in 30 degree weather … brrrrr….
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November 29, 2005
@ 9:01 pm
I love to do most things with ice cubes in my shorts, so this would have been a piece of cake.
Good for you!
November 30, 2005
@ 4:07 pm
Hey, with your condensed video, the parade actually ended before my ice cubes melted! (now, what else to do with icy undies….)
December 1, 2005
@ 1:07 am
That really was surprisingly interesting–I’m used to seeing it from the broadcasters’ vantage point–it was kind of cool seeing it from the viewpoint of someone on the street!
December 1, 2005
@ 1:50 am
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December 1, 2005
@ 7:32 am
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December 2, 2005
@ 2:26 am
Wow! New York!!
I gotta show this to some of my students…They always look at me like I’m from Mars when I try to explain this gem of American culture…
December 3, 2005
@ 3:39 am
HI, I fianlly watched this one. You know, I saw the TV broadcast thign for like one minute, and chaged the channel instantly. But now I can say that without being in New York that day, at least I got to see it a a new yorker sees it.
Now, my hats off for getting up so early. And with that cold, amazing to see that it really has to be pretty espectacular so people show up 2-3 hours in advance with that temperature.
(I think FireANT is now working properlly.)
(And I laugh every time I remember about your subway night… that was soooo funny… jejejee)
December 26, 2005
@ 2:49 am
I like how you extracted audio, had a great view of the street up ahead, and made the titles easy to read. Great brief explanation of the parade.