#appearance: macy's thanksgiving parade

[derekklenadaily]

@giftober | Day 27: Blue

[mjf-af]

Doc’s backup dancers with their 80s hair and DMC belt buckles how can I get on your level

[fancycolours]

Robert wants a baby grand 🎹🎁🎄✨

[sonichedgeblog]

The Sonic balloon that appeared at the 1994 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.

[reasonsforhope]

"Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly blocked entrance roads to airports in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday [December 27, 2023], snarling traffic as U.S. airlines contended with a rush of holiday travel.

The demonstrations stopped cars on the outskirts of New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, where some travelers set off on foot to bypass the jammed roadway, as well as Los Angeles International Airport. A total of 62 people were arrested during the two protests, police said.

In New York, activists locked arms and held banners demanding an end to the Israel-Hamas war and expanded rights for Palestinians, bringing traffic to a standstill on the Van Wyck Expressway leading up to the airport for about 20 minutes.

Video posted to social media showed passengers, some carrying suitcases, leaving vehicles behind and stepping over barriers onto the highway median.

Twenty-six people in the protest were arrested for disorderly conduct and impeding vehicular traffic, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey dispatched two buses to help travelers caught in the backup reach the airport, agency spokesperson Steve Burns said.

Around the same time as the New York protest, a major thoroughfare leading to the Los Angeles airport was shut down by another group of pro-Palestinian protesters, who dragged traffic cones, trash bins, scooters and debris into the lanes, according to news helicopter footage.

In a statement, the Los Angeles Police Department accused protesters of throwing a police officer to the ground and “attacking uninvolved passerbys in their vehicles,” without providing further details about either incident.

The group appeared to flee when police arrived, though the Los Angeles Police Department said traffic around the airport remained impacted roughly two hours after the demonstration was declared unlawful.

A spokesperson for the LAPD said 35 people were arrested for rioting and one person was arrested for battery of a police officer. No officers were injured, according to the spokesperson. An estimated 215,000 passengers and 87,000 vehicles were expected to pass through the Los Angeles airport on Wednesday.

Since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on Oct. 7, near nightly protests have broken out in cities across the United States. In New York, pro-Palestinian organizers have responded to the growing death toll in Gaza with escalating actions aimed at disrupting some of the city’s best-known events, including the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the annual tree-lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center."

-via AP, December 27, 2023

[incorrecthermitquotes]

Judge Bdubs: It appears you have quite an arrest record. Is it true you completely disassembled someone's car outside a Starbucks?

Doc: It was parked across two spaces.

Judge Bdubs: You stole a red fokker triplane and strafed the Snoopy float at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

Doc: Got three mimes, too.

Judge Bdubs: You disrupted a 9/11 truther meeting insisting that the twin towers never actually collapsed?

Doc: I have evidence! You can't trust the media!

Judge Bdubs: You were fired from RadioShack after you built a death ray and then vaporized a customer?

Doc: I was just testing it. Figures that'd be the one day there was a shopper in the aisle.

Judge Bdubs: And you were thrown out of Microsoft headquarters for...trying to feed your own dismembered arm through a fax machine?

Doc: I forgot about that! It was part of an argument with Dinnerbone about mob hybrids. Which I won, by the way.

Judge Bdubs:

Judge Bdubs: This is the worst history of vandalism, gleeful mayhem, and general recalcitrance we've seen in a nominee since Evil X. And this--you stole a nuclear submarine?

Doc: I plead the third.

Judge Bdubs: You mean the fifth?

Doc: No. The third.

Judge Bdubs: You refuse to quarter troops in your house?

Doc: I have few principles, but I stick to them.

[yesterdays-xkcd]

He actually installed each piece in a different car in the lot, then built a new car in the spot from the displaced pieces. It's a confusing maneuver known as the auto-troll shuffle

Secretary: Part 3 [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

Narration: The confirmation hearings begin... [Four Senators sit behind a table.] Senator: It appears you have quite an arrest record.

[Black Hat sits behind a desk.] Senator: Is it true you completely disassembled someone's car outside a Starbucks? Black Hat: It was parked across two spaces.

Senator: You stole a red Fokker triplane and strafed the snoopy float at the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade?

Black Hat: Got three mimes, too.

Senator: You disrupted a 9/11 truth meeting, insisting the Twin Towers never actually collapsed? Black Hat: I have evidence! Don't trust the media! Wake up, sheeple!

Senator: You were fired from Radio Shack after you built a death ray and vaporized a customer?

Black Hat: I was just testing it! Figures that'd be the one day there was a shopper in the aisle.

Senator: And you were thrown out of Microsoft headquarters for... trying to feed a squirrel through a fax machine?

Black Hat: I forgot about that! it was part of an argument with Steve Ballmer about Vista. Which I won, by the way.

[Senators look down at their notes.]

Senator: This is the worst history of vandalism, gleeful mayhem, and general recalcitrance we've seen in a nominee since Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Senator: And this-you stole a nuclear submarine? Black Hat: I plead the third

Senator: You mean the fifth? Black Hat: No, the third.

Senator: You refuse to quarter troops in your house? Black Hat: I have few principles, but I stick to them.

Narration: Meanwhile... [Aboard Ron Paul's blimp.] Ponytail: We're nearing Washington, sir. Ponytail: Wait... There's something ahead on the sensors.

Ponytail: It's a balloon. Ron Paul: ...Oh, no.

[marshallpupfan]

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2024

We got to hear about some interesting news today!

Here in the USA, we always get something every year called the "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade". For the past six years, Chase appeared in them as one of the many balloon floats (I even posted a clip of it, all the way back in 2019). It seems they decided to go with another pup this year...

And since I'm making a post about it, you can guess who it'll be.

WE'RE GETTING A MARSHALL FLOAT!!! 🤩🤩🤩

I've seen Marshall included in a few parades in other countries, and unless I'm mistaken, this will his first appearance here in the USA! What unexpected yet wonderful news! And oh, you can bet I'll 100% post some pics (and hopefully a clip or two) when I get to see it! Ooh, I can't wait! 🤩

Of course, the image you see above is just a computer generated representation of the balloon. We won't actually get to see it until the day of the parade. I'm certainly looking forward to it, clearly! lol

Source - https://t.co/FgApIzJFYq

[dragonsdendoodles]

MERRY CHRISTMAS‼️do u have any holiday hcs?

YOU FUCKING BET I DO

All the kids are in charge of making something for big holiday meals. That way they all have at least one thing they like, and when you have twelve people making food you inevitably have enough for all twelve people. Win-win.

There’s a whole list of late fall/winter holidays that they celebrate, peculiar and normal alike. American Thanksgiving was eventually added for Jacob and Noor, though they’ve thoroughly established that it has nothing to do with the actual original Thanksgiving and is more an excuse to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving like five times. Even still, certain peculiars (Enoch) refuse to participate willingly.

Horace has officially put himself in charge of decorating for said holidays. This makes late October, November, and December actual literal hell for Horace. The others offer to help, but it’s not that he doesn’t want it, it’s that he’s the one who has to do it or it won’t be absolutely perfect.

One year Jacob and Noor got everyone Santa hats. And then forced everyone to wear them. Please enjoy that mental image.

They do religious holidays, but they don’t really do religious holidays. Since peculiars don’t appear to really have religion it’s more about their family’s traditions and the history of it than anything else.

Because of the Panloopticon, convincing Miss Peregrine to take them to a snowy loop on vacation is now an option. Jacob, Horace, and Olive get the most excited about it.

Jacob tried to show them instant hot chocolate. It did not go well.

Horace. Snowy loop. Ice skating. Need I say more.

As previously mentioned, Jacob will pick one Christmas song he likes and put it on repeat for literal hours and that is why Jacob is not allowed to pick the music anymore. Noor, however, is, and brings back records of things she and Jacob grew up with like Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown and the Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas album. One of those was significantly more confusing to the kids from the 1940s than the other.

I have more but this is devolving into “my favorite characters just do what I do for Christmas” so I’m gonna stop

Fun fact though those records in the last one are genuine records my dad owns. And plays every Christmas. Alvin, Simon, and Theodore would be proud

[warningsine]

The funniest show on television is Girls5Eva, which transplanted from the backwoods of Peacock to the mires of Netflix for its third season. While a lot of shows have taken off after landing on Netflix — You, for instance — Girls5Eva, from the data available publicly, didn’t get many viewers on the platform. I’m no expert on the mechanics of streaming, but I have one radical explanation for why this is happening: There are simply not enough episodes of Girls5Eva available to watch. On Peacock, the show had two eight-episode seasons. Netflix has given it an additional six. That means that Girls5Eva has aired, in total, only 22 episodes, about the same number as a full-season order of an old-fashioned network sitcom like 30 Rock, to which Meredith Scardino’s series is deeply indebted (Scardino wrote on 30 Rock; Tina Fey is a Girls5Eva executive producer). Over a three-year period? This is simply not enough!

Sitcoms are built for mass production and consumption, with dynamics between characters designed to generate an endless stream of story lines, and it can take a season or two to fully gel. Girls5Eva is lucky enough to have a distinct sensibility and a strong cast from the start, but it hasn’t had the space to work through all the possible material. There’s so much to mine in flashbacks to the girl group’s checkered early-aughts past, in Wickie’s failed solo career, in Summer’s wackadoo Christian upbringing, in Gloria’s fraught lesbian drama, and in Dawn’s attempts to find her own way as a songwriter (plus the larger meta arc of Sara Bareilles coming into her own as a comedic actor). Season three, in which the crew goes on tour around the country, tries to cover so much ground it’s like a distance runner sprinting at her vO2 max. The overarching plot — they want to perform at Radio City Music Hall — encroaches on all the fun along the way, rushing past a guest appearance from Cat Cohen, the reveal of Wickie’s real backstory, and an intricate Harry Styles parody. Sitcoms should be about all the fun everyone is having along the way, and we’ve lost that.

But there is another and perhaps more important reason that we need longer seasons of Girls5Eva: holidays. Network sitcoms, airing on a traditional schedule, have the opportunity to set episodes around the holidays near which they would air; think of the Thanksgiving episodes of Friends, The Office’s Christmas episodes, 30 Rock’s impeccable use of Leap Day. In my ideal universe where Girls5Eva has 22-episode seasons, Netflix would also abandon the binge strategy and air those episodes weekly, but that’s not a necessity. You could still drop them all at once, which gives me the opportunity to revisit the holiday episodes as those holidays occur throughout the year. If you need convincing, here are my suggestions for some holidays the Girls5Eva might celebrate:

Christmas (duh): Dawn tries to write a Christmas song; Wickie reveals a longstanding feud with Mariah Carey (she claims one of the items from her riff rolodex appears in “All I Want for Christmas Is You”; Mariah does not know her).

Thanksgiving: The girls try to book a gig at the Macy’s Parade (as Peacock actually had the stars do, to the confusion of my parents watching at home) while also atoning for their past sins at the event (revealed in flashback).

Valentine’s Day: Gloria revisits a past relationship with Taylor Lautner (she was his dentist).

Tax season: Summer reveals she hasn’t been paying taxes for years (thought you were covered if you already paid your church).

Presidents’ Day: Dawn tries to write a song about Lincoln being sexy, inadvertently offends a gay activist group.

Pride month: Return of Bowen Yang’s lip-sync influencer.

Cuffing season: Big for Gloria.

The Feast of San Gennaro: Big for Dawn (why is the show so all-in on Sara Bareilles being Italian??).

V-E Day: Wickie and Dawn’s husband, Scott, discover their mutual fascination with the Eastern Front: “I spent a lot of time touring post-Soviet states, okay!”

Casimir Pulaski Day: Gloria has beef with Sufjan Stevens.

[youngbloodlisk]

parade day - enhypen bias x reader, fluff

the bias isn't actually in it all that much, but just like trust me lol

applicable for any enha member, no name stated, though if you feel it's a bit ooc for your member of choice to say certain things feel free to alter it a little in your own mind to make it fit better!

I shiver, feeling like an ice block from the inside out, despite the amount of layers on my body and the hot drink in my gloved hands.

I breathe out air warmer than my surroundings, granting me the appearance of a steam cloud coming from my mouth.

As I take a drink from my paper cup, I can't help but wonder to myself why Thanksgiving has to be in November. And why parades have to be outdoors. And why I had to be here so early in the morning just to stand here for hours.

Then, my phone buzzes in my pocket. Not just a generic vibration, but the custom vibration that he set for himself on my phone. 'So I always know it's him before I even look.'

⁃ how's the crowd

He's such an ass. He's currently inside, waiting for the staff to tell him to go out and board the float. Inside. He's inside. In the heat.

⁃ cold, dick. how's the nice warm heated building 🤩

⁃ lovely, thank you.

⁃ no but fr ur not too cold right? you have jackets on?

⁃ i can send someone to u with my jacket if u need it

⁃ did you get the drink u said u we're gonna get?

⁃ yes yes yes I have jackets I have my drink im fine lmao

He might be kind of an ass but he's so sweet.

⁃ ok good.

⁃ only a few hours!

⁃ after we pass by the main part you can leave baby

⁃ ik you said you were gonna wait around for me but you don't have to

⁃ I don't need you freezing your ass off

⁃ THAT would be tragic. r.i.p. ass

I can't help but roll my eyes.

⁃ you're such a perv

⁃ woah rude!

Instead of responding, I slide my phone back into my pocket. I don't really have anything else to say at the moment. If I tell him straight up that I WILL be waiting until the end of the parade for him, he'll just whine about how I don't have to.

And now I stand. And wait...

And I waited for about 5 hours. We had to be here at 4:30 in the morning, both for him to get where he needed to go with his members and for me to get an absolutely prime spot in the crowd. The parade didn't actually start until about 9:30.

It's not every day that your boyfriend performs in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Longest five hours of my life, but whatever. He better not mess up the choreography after all this shit or I'm gonna be pissed.

Not really, it would actually be pretty funny. But the point is- this is pretty exhausting. Especially since I'm here all by myself.

Other members have partners, but they either couldn't come out for the parade or they don't like me. Not kidding, they seriously just don't like me that much. But that's okay! I don't particularly like them either. Anyways, all that resulted in me being here alone, without anybody to talk to to pass time.

But whatever. Whatever! It's over. The agonizingly boring five hours is over, and the parade is finally starting.

The float I'm really here for is a few floats and balloons back, but the parade feels like it moves quickly, so it doesn't seem to take very long at all.

The big Baby Shark float approaches and I see him already trying to find me in the crowd.

"Excuse me, could my daughter stand in front of you? Just for this performance?" A woman asks from behind me. I look next to her and see a young girl, probably about 10 or 11, holding a picket with my boyfriend's face on it.

She looks like this is the best day of her life. She isn't even looking at me, like she doesn't even care if she has the best view of the group. Just being here and seeing them is enough to fill her with pure joy.

"Of course! Of course she can!"

"Oh, thank you so much." She prompts her daughter to move forward as I scoot back a bit to make room for her. "She loves these boys, she's been talking about it for days. Thank you."

"It's no problem at all." I turn my attention to the young girl. "Is he your favorite?" I point to her picket.

She nods, excitedly.

"He's so pretty."

"He really is. He's my favorite too."

I look up again, seeing that he's still trying to find me. I wave with all my might, willing him to spot me, and soon enough he does. As soon as I have his attention, I frantically point to the girl who is now holding her picket up and waving at him. He leans down a bit to indicate that he's changed his attention to her as he smiles, waves at her, and sends a hand heart in her direction.

She squeals and jumps up and down.

"He saw me!! He saw me!! Mama, he saw me!! He gave me a heart!"

The cute little girl continues to freak out, making me worry slightly that she might just explode, as the float stops and the guys climb down, getting ready to perform.

There was some benefit to getting here so early. The performances are all directly in front of me (and this little girl, who I feel some level of community with at the moment.)

The hosts finish up their introductory stuff about the float, the movie, and the group, and the Baby Shark music begins to play (soon transitioning into the Keep Swimmin' Through tune.)

I watch him intently, full of pride for him and his success with the group.

I know he can't entirely take this seriously. It's a song for a Baby Shark movie. It's not like it's the most serious of performances in the first place. But I also know that deep down he can't believe he's here either. He can't believe he's doing this. He'd probably agree to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star acapella if it meant he got to be in such a big event that few kpop groups have been in.

The group does a great job. Of course they do. None of them mess up the choreography, so I remain not pissed off. (Lol)

After the performance, they simply walk off next to the float, but my boyfriend makes sure to send a quick flying kiss to both me and the little Engene in front of me before leaving the main square.

"He saw me again!!" She squeals.

"That's great, honey!" Her mother says before whispering to me, "Do you know that boy or something? He seemed to know you?"

I laugh a bit.

"Yes, ma'am. He's my boyfriend."

"Oh my! Oh, you must be very proud of him."

"You have no idea."

The rest of the parade is uneventful, just nice entertainment.

When it ends, I say goodbye to the little Engene and her mom, and seek out a heated place as fast as possible. I'm finally able to find a store nearby that is both open and not too busy. I wait in that store until my boyfriend is released from his duties and able to text me where to find him.

When I finally do leave and find him, he hugs me tighter than usual and holds on longer than usual.

"Are you alright?" I ask, slightly concerned.

"So cold. You're so warm."

I laugh, though I understand. I have to pry him off of me, taking a second to kiss his cold lips.

"You guys did great. Was it fun?"

"Yeah, it was. Less fun though and more just... just a really crazy experience."

"I bet. Did you see a lot of Engenes throughout the parade?"

"Yeah! A lot more than I expected. They really showed out. That little girl in front of you was adorable."

"You're her bias, and I think your heart and kiss made her entire day. Month. Life, possibly."

"Well, I wouldn't have seen her and made her entire life if it wasn't for you."

He takes my hands and pulls me close to him, bringing his face near to mine.

"It really is all thanks to me, isn't it? Technically, maybe /I/ made her entire life. You were just the tool."

"Mhm, mhm. Sure..." He trails off, pressing his lips into mine in a much deeper way than the short kiss earlier.

I feel a warmth run through my body, like the warmth of his kiss is being injected into my veins.

He cuts it off suddenly, staying close enough for his lips to still brush against mine. We utter a sentence each before resuming the kiss.

"Thank you for coming and standing out in the cold just for me."

"Baby, I'm so proud of you."

[derekklenadaily]

@giftober | Day 19: Purple

[animenostalgia]

News - Goku has been part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade since 2018, and this year he'll be back with a new look! He'll be sporting his Super Saiyan form for the parade's 98th year celebration on November 28th, 2024.

[teddy06writes]

Thanksgiving Special - Day One - Curtis Gang (Unit)

Platonic!Curtis Gang x gn!reader

Trigger Warnings: One (1) swear

Summary: Pre Curtis Parents death, a happy thanksgiving day spent goofing around with the gang before Mrs. Curtis calls everyone in for Thanksgiving dinner.

{Reader is around Two-Bit's age}

"Oh wow look at that one!"

"That one's new right?"

"No it's not you dope!"

"Quiet down I can't hear anything!"

"No one cares about the talking parts Ponyboy!"

You could hear the gang arguing before you had even properly made it up the porch steps. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was already well under way, but you didn't really care that you had missed that start. In fact, most of the gang would feign the same thing if anyone else were to ask about it.

The house was already filled with the smell of something delicious, and Mrs. Curtis flashed you a bright smile as you entered the house, "Good moring (y/n)!"

"Mornin' Mrs. C! That smells incredible!"

She let out a chuckle, "Just wait till Darrell gets that turkey started!"

"(y/n) come 'ere!" Soda called from where everyone was gathered around the TV, "Pony just wants to listen to Betty White talk!"

"No I don't!"

You laughed, making your way over to the couch, and squeezing your way between Steve and Two-Bit, "Sure Pony, sure..."

"What the hell is that?" Dally demanded as a large green balloon rounded the street corner on the screen.

"Language!" Mr. Curtis called from where he sat at the kitchen table, mixing together basting for the turkey.

Dallas looked down at his lap, grumbling, "Sorry..."

"It's a Dinosaur, stupid." Johnny said, elbowing at him.

"I'm not stupid, stupid." He snapped, shoving back.

Before any larger fight could erupt, Mrs. Curtis appeared, "Who wants to help peel some potatoes?"

Immediately, Johnny's hand shot up, followed closely by yours. With a satisfied smile, she pulled two of the chairs away from the table, so that you could continue to watch the parade while you worked.

The two of you sat, working quietly and trading snarky comments about the others back and forth, too far removed and close to Mr. Curtis' ever watching eyes for any of them to retaliate.

"Say, Junior, can you go get the turkey? I pulled it out of the icebox this morning so it could defrost." Mr. Curtis called eventually.

Dutifully Darry got up to go help with the turkey.

Some time later, after the dinner prep had been finished, the parade ended, and both adults thoroughly tired of Two-Bit's loud off key christmas carols that had begun when Santa had appeared, Mrs. Curtis couldn't help but let out a groan.

"Boys, why don't you go out and play some football," Mr. Curtis said, "Maybe I'll even come out and join you when Mrs. C decides I'm no good at helping out anymore."

There was a cheer of excitement, and then you were all rushing to put on shoes and jackets as Darry went off to get his old football.

Later, Mrs. Curtis would call everyone inside to set the tables, and Mrs. Mathews would come down the street with her famous apple pie which would sit tantalizing everyone till it was time for dessert.

For now, you all raced out into the chilly air without a care in the world.

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

I’m watching the pre-opening ceremony coverage on the NBC Olympics app and they just had Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo on to promote Wicked.

Y’all, I don’t think this movie is going to do well. They are doing A LOT of contractual appearances together, and MONTHS before the actual movie premiere. That usually doesn’t bode well, because it means the marketing and PR budget is HUGE if they’re buying Super Bowl spots and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade spots and Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony spots.

[sophieinwonderland]

All these symeds fearmongering over “the future is plural” kinda sound like 2000s Republicans talking about the “gay agenda”.

"2000s Republicans."

This was published a few weeks ago:

And here's another two day before that one:

A candidate for Secretary of State in Missouri recently went on a rant about the gay agenda.

And here's the conservative hate group One Million Moms, consisting of A Few Thousand Moms, responding to the "LGBTQ agenda" of trans people appearing in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

I just need to make it clear that this sentiment is alive and well within the Republican party. It's not some ancient evil that's been vanquished. It's an active danger to LGBTQ people everywhere.

But to your point, yes, definitely!

And I think the use of "Grooming" is the most striking example, because this has been a big right-wing tactic to demonize LGBTQ people in recent years.

For example:

More importantly, I don't think these allegations of "grooming" people into being systems were getting tossed around by anti-endos until after it became a mainstream Republican talking point to accuse queer people of "grooming" people into being queer.

When sysmeds are tossing this rhetoric around, THIS is where it came from. Sysmeds are following the playbooks of homophobes and transphobes and neo-nazis to the letter.