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Friday, February 01, 2008

Gung-Hay-Fat-Choy Rats

The Chinese New Year Parade is upon us. Soon Butte's Chinese New Year Parade will being. It's the Coldest, Loudest, and Shortest Chinese New Year Parade In the World. Today was the day to take the dragon out of is home at the Mai Wah Chinese History Museum and put it in the courthouse. The parade will take it back.

And of course like years past there will be firecrackers all along the parade route. However unlike years past this time the whole affair will be illegal. The Council of Commissioners showed a profound disregard for personal freedoms last month and passed an ordinance against fireworks except for immediately before and after New Years and the 4th. This is the face of 0 fireworks related incidents; and after reassurance to the public that Chinese New Year would be specifically excluded from the ban.

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# posted by Max : 2/01/2008 03:18:00 PM 0 comments

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Shortest Loudest Coldest

A number of moons ago Robert and I were volunteered to head up the fireworks for the Chinese New Year Parade. Butte lays claim to the shortest, loudest and coldest Chinese New Year parade in the country. The parade goes from the courthouse to the Mai Wah Chinese History Museum. It consists of Montana's only Parade dragon followed by a motley of fools banging pots. Our contribution was to recruit people to light firecrackers off cigars and chuck them somewhere children weren't. We mostly succeeded. Its a complete public safety nightmare, which is just the way I like it. The culmination is a 10,000 fire cracker salute (and we threw in some Saturn missiles left over from last 3rd of July). I bet your Chinese New Year was lame. Year of the Dog!

Robert's failed audition for "Band of Brothers"

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# posted by Max : 6/10/2006 09:03:00 AM 0 comments

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