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March 25, 2009
Here's a surprise
beer goggles, originally uploaded by Big Rye.
The organizers of the South Side Irish Parade, better known as the time most people leave the North Side in school buses and get drunk then pee on someone's house, has been canceled. But the organizers won't say why they're canceling it:
Organizers of the South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade on Western Avenue said today they would no longer hold the event "in its present form."
Mary Beth Sheehan, a spokeswoman for the parade, said the decision was not the result of any specific incident. She said, "It's a cumulative thing. We have a small, wonderful neighborhood here. Mashing 300,000 people in here is a little too much for this neighborhood."
Here's my favorite paragraph:
The parade, which went through the Beverly and Morgan Park neighborhoods on the Far South Side, started as about two dozen children marching a few blocks and has grown into a yearly event that draws hundreds of thousands of revelers from around the Chicago area, some drunk.
Some drunk? That's a bit liberal, I'd say. The one time I went, I was under the table by 11 am. Most of my colleagues were, as well. The Beverly neighborhood is probably not going to miss those drunken revelers, but I know who will: the bar owners on that stretch of Western Avenue, not to mention all the bar owners who rent buses to ship revelers down to the South Side. Pity you all!
entry no. 1336
Posted at March 25, 2009 03:41 PM