Venice Independence Day Parade
The annual Venice Independence Day Parade is
back! Organizers say that this year’s parade was a trial run for the 99th
and 100th anniversaries of the legendary founding of Venice in
1905.
The parade was dedicated to the memory of
Silvia Kohan, who died just days before she was to sing “Moon Over
Venice” at the July 4
event.
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To
anyone who can read:
What more visible
sign can you have of the demise of the West than the ragtag bunch of aging
politicals, hedonists, and downright saps who careen through the streets of
Venice on the Fourth of July. Like the last gasp of an old courtesian, some jerk
with a ship’s horn followed the rear of fourteen or fifteen Venetians, or
is it Venusians? What a comedown.
My
God. The ghosts of the sixties and seventies of Venice must be rolling in their
shreds. Maybe the Parade Committee would have done better to call it an
anti-Fourth of July event. Instead they had the graying doyenne of a failing
local radical publication ride down the street in a convertible. What kind of a
statement is that? Mediocrity? Has the pall of Playa Vista fallen over
Venice?
On the lawn of the old Venice
City Hall some goofy old lady had her picture made with the American
Revolutionary War Flag, ‘DON’T TREAD ON ME’ At her age and
infirmity it is doubtful she could be effective with a flyswatter. What is
Venice coming to?
The glory days of
Venice are gone. The world must look to other places for leaders of the
resurrection or of the loyalists. It is all gone
blah.
Signed,
a
fellow comrade
Posted: Fri - August 1, 2003 at 08:19 PM