The Luck of the Irish
One year ago yesterday, I posted this rather silly, meant to be humorous entry:
GOING ORANGE FOR ST. PADDY'S DAY?The U.S. government, showing a clear prejudice against the Irish in the ongoing struggle between the British and the Irish in Northern Ireland, today raised the threat level to orange on St. Patrick's Day. Green-wearing Irish everywhere are sure to be offended. After all, orange is the color of the oppressive British-loving Protestant fascists!
In other news, prisoners are once again more color-coordinated than you.
Flash forward one year. 183 page views to that entry, all from some variation of the Google search wearing orange on st. patrick's day.
Alas, I wore neither green nor orange yesterday. I was quite New Yorkish in black and putty. I suppose I could have worn green on March 6th, which was when Hoboken had its St. Patrick's Day parade. What the hell was up with that anyway? Celebrating St. Patrick's Day 1.5 weeks earlier? I can understand wanting to have a parade on a weekend, but wouldn't that logically be the weekend before or after? Two weekends before makes no sense. It's not as if there were some huge Hoboken festival going on last weekend.
I suppose St. Patrick's Day is now a state of mind.