Our first stop as we headed up Columbus into North Beach was at the San Francisco Scientology headquarters, where we issued a few homages (taunts). For example: "Give me an L!" ("L!") "Give me a Ron!" ("Ron!") "Give me a Hubbard!" ("Hubbard!") "What's that spell?" ("Bullshit!")
The view from the head of the parade, looking backward up Columbus. Imagine drums, brass, and hundreds of exuberant voices calling out, "No more chanting! No more chanting!" etc.:
Frank Chu, famed bearer of the "12 Galaxies" sign, regales the St. Stupid Day celebrants as they gather in Washington Square Park with an address which can only be described as - yes, stupid. I couldn't make out much of what Frank was saying, but it seemed to regard his personal frustration at not receiving enough coverage on Fox News:
Then Dr. Hal Robbins, of Church-of-Subgenius fame, took the stage to deliver a few inspiring words in praise of stupidity ("Ignorance is a state of not knowing. Stupidity is a state of never being able to know. And I know that we all know that none of us can know." Or something like that).
"Do not look upon one another on this day and say, 'I am stupider than you,' or, 'I am dressed much more stupidly than you are.' No, by merely coming here today we have each of us shown beyond any doubt that we are all stupid." (--This was a relief, since I'd felt sorely underdressed for the occasion.)
Dr. Robbins' best line: when he vouchsafed the importance for us all of achieving, "a work-free drugspace."
In all: stupid. Too bad next year it falls on a frigging Tuesday.
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