Well, that was strange

[Adam]

Four drummers, and one person attempting to play "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" on a xylophone (but not quite succeeding at it) just marched down Fourth Avenue past my office.

No other parade, no police escort or anything like that. No signs. No anything. Just random people with a bad xylophone rendition of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" marching down the street for no readily apparent reason.



Weird.

[Gingersnap]

I can think of much worse ways to spend an afternoon. Really worse.

[Adam]

I can think of much worse ways to spend an afternoon. Really worse.

It wasn't even an afternoon. It was like three minutes.

Just a strange thing to see. At least it is for me. I've seen Dolly Parton riding down the street sitting on a bale of hay and singing in the bed of a '58 Chevy pickup with a video crew following close behind. I've seen the Shriner's Circus come to town many times over the years, and as such I have seen monkeys and elephants walk down the street in the midst of cartwheeling midgets and clowns riding miniature motorcycles. I've seen many different kinds of Halloween costumes walking up and down the sidewalk, even in months that don't even have an O in them. I've seen masses of illegals marching through the street waving Mexican flags. I've had most of the cast of Nashville come into my office just because they liked the globe in the front window (everyone loves the globe, which is a lit-up orb about four feet in diameter). I've seen PETA protesters wearing nothing but pig noses and pink body paint stage a street-marching protest.

But I've never seen just some random small band of rather poor musicians just marching down the street for no readily apparent reason playing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" on a xylophone. It's just such a strange thing to do, particularly with no readily apparent message. It almost seems like something out of a dream that some psychiatrist will tell you means that you secretly hate your mother or something.


Bizarre.

[Billy Jingo]

That is awesome.

[Novaheart]

Four drummers, and one person attempting to play "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" on a xylophone (but not quite succeeding at it) just marched down Fourth Avenue past my office.

No other parade, no police escort or anything like that. No signs. No anything. Just random people with a bad xylophone rendition of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" marching down the street for no readily apparent reason.



Weird.

Maybe the Moral Monday folks got stoned and thought a week had gone by.

[Novaheart]

That is awesome.

PLaying the Battle Hymn Of The Republic in the South, even in Traitorsee is not "awesome", it's offensive.

[Billy Jingo]

PLaying the Battle Hymn Of The Republic in the South, even in Traitorsee is not "awesome", it's offensive.

I was thinking of the fun and not the political sensibilities of unreconstructed Confederates.

[Norm dePlume]

Meanwhile, in Portland,

[Adam]

PLaying the Battle Hymn Of The Republic in the South, even in Traitorsee is not "awesome", it's offensive.

It is sung pretty routinely in churches in the South, and not just in Tennessee.

I can't ever hear the score without hearing in my head the lyrics to "Blood on the Risers." I guess I'm just morbid that way.