I didn’t stick around for the entire Popcorn Fest parade, but what I saw…as with most regional parades, unsatisfying. A bunch of people in matching grey shirts and jeans holding a banner just isn’t what parading should be. Maybe I’m spoiled by my time in New Orleans. And after sweating through Chicago’s great Pride Parade. Hundreds of people line the streets to cheer on something they’re pretty much gonna see on any given day. I could literally walk out onto the street, join the parade and wave to people and no one would be the wiser. “Cause that’s basically all you see in these things. Yea, yea, the kids like it. They get candy and shit (well, not literally shit, I don’t think) and…
Essays, Interviews, Observations, Pop Culture, Stories, and other Dodginess
Posts from the “random dodgy” Category
I’m partial to the music performed during last Sunday’s final of the Hobart Lakefront Festival. A region band, New Element, played their Celtic/Irish rock selections for a whopping four hours (4-8 p.m.) under the bandshell near the wonderful Jaycees beer garden. Lots of interesting characters stopped by the lakefront, like this guy. Nothing like a drinking contest amongst lakefront ladies to make it an entertaining beer garden. It’s not an NWI beer garden without a relaxed old guy drinking. The younger man was wearing a kilt, though hard to tell in the pic. He’s a local bagpiper. Jacyees Bags/Beer Tent On another note, we checked out Annunciata Fest on Chicago’s East Side the night before. Close enough to NWI (Whiting) so it sorta counts.…
Report: Lawmaker sought ‘really good time’ online. Ok, he’s not a rep. from Northwest Indiana (but had some dealings involving local reps that involved the area) but this asshole state lawmaker supposedly tried to touch a young man’s pee-pee in Indianapolis. This dick is one of those anti-gay marriage pols too. Freakin’ perv…lock him up where he’ll get lots of pee-pees to dwidle.
The Dodgy 