So today was Veteran's Day. Having a number of servicemen in the family, I was naturally feeling quite respectful today. So when the annual Veteran's Day Parade went right in front of my theatre, I was pleased. I went out with my employees to watch and we had a nice time. But as with most things in Waco... there were plenty of weird things that went along with the parade.
First off, since this is Texas, there were almost more marching bands than there were spectators. It seemed like every school within a 90 mile radius had their marching band out there. And what was the most notable feature of those marching bands? The number of fat kids. I'm not kidding; kids today are fat! Some of those trombone players looked like they ate the football team. I think more marching is in order for them. How do they march that much and still stay so fat? Are they hiding fried chicken in the tubas? They looked so out of shape that I thought "waddling band" might have been a better description. Too many of them reminded me of this picture that I snapped at the big homecoming game here at Jerusalem-on-the-Brazos University a few weeks ago:

Another odd thing was the candy-throwers. You know how people on floats in parades toss candy to the kids in the crowd? Well... today was a Monday so most kids were in school. But that didn't deter the candy-throwers. Also, the didn't so much "toss" the candy as they did pelt us with it. And when we looked closely we noticed that at least 80% of the candy was clearly recycled from Halloween. In the wise words of my brother, that's ghetto: G-E-T-T-O.

But the weirdest thing of the day can't really be described in words alone. Luckily, I made a video:



No sooner had they passed than I really started to wonder who was driving...

So that's Veteran's Day. I apologize for my long absence. We've been busy with work. It's really been crazy. I'm back now. More soon on Homecoming and the Pumpkin Carving Competition. Word to your collective mothers.