St. Patrick's Day Parade - Hackettstown 2013

This is a multi part video playlist from the parade today. Click the next button to skip forward.

Published Again!

Fight, don't join, the terrorists
The Easton Express Times
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The tea partiers are consciously trying to induce a public nervous breakdown.
Whether they are sending death threats to a congressman's 5-year-old son in Florida, violently throwing money at a man with Parkinson's disease on an Ohio sidewalk or maliciously shouting the "N" word at African-American representatives at an event in Washington, D.C., the effect is utterly terrifying.

The mass hysteria that is today's Tea Party shows that the majority of us have forgotten we are supposed to be fighting terrorists, not becoming them. Do they really think the end justify the means?

When are we the people going to realize that we are not crazy after all? When will we stand up to all of this bullying? We are not safe in public. We are not safe in our homes. What will the future of our country be like if no one risks stepping out and fighting back?

Erik B. Anderson
Independence Township

Medieval Times - March 31, 2010

King Philip meets King Erik

Medieval Times is a Theme Restaurant in Lyndhurst, New Jersey - Not far from New York City

SPOILER WARNING!

The Red Knight was quite stuck up. I did not like him because he did not even raise his eyes to we poor peasants and barefoot nobles in the red section. He fought very well, beating the blue knight. But was bested by the "Invincible" white and black knight, who was then betrayed by the Green Knight.

I do not know if Medieval Times needs spoiler warnings.

I hope they don't do the exact same show every day. God bless them if they do.

More images:

The Red Knight kept his back to us the whole time.

King Philip and his daughter-in-law, Prince Leonora

If I were not a barefoot noble (i.e. a noble with a title, but no property), I would have purchase a bright glowing sword or something to swing around.

I dropped half of a chicken on the floor. Luckily, my neighbor was a vegetarian and gave me hers, so I had already had one. I did not go hungry. Others in my group complained that one piece of chicken, half a potato and tiny piece of corn on the cob left them hungry. That's not their public image. I always thought Medieval Times was a smorgasbord.

In any case, I had a good time.

Thank you to Easter Seals of Warren County for taking me there.

Sincerely,

Erik B. Anderson

Independence Township, New Jersey

Established 1782

Friday Cat Blogging

The Princess of Funny Faces is Sick.

She hasn't been eating for over a month.

This is her on Wednesday. She was so bad yesterday I thought I was going to be putting her to sleep today. That's not going to happen today, but it might sometime next week. In the meantime, I am going to try some deworming medication.

My mind has been in a lot of pain over this.