And, Of Course, The More-Than-Obligatory Post-Parade Post.

Parade Number 26 in GT12's life has now come and gone. For the 26th consecutive time there was no rain. For the third or fourth time rain which had been falling all morning stopped just as the parade began (I am not making this up).

Both our incumbent governor and his opponent were in attendance (as they always are) along with most other politicians (we missed the start so we can only assume that Rahm Emmanuel showed up).

Few Drag Queens, fewer naked butts in chaps and hundreds of thousands of nice normal people such as yours truly (seen here w/ a festively accessorized 'Buddy' post-parade).

Oh, BTW, I learned today that Dan Savage, in his first book, deals with the incident mentioned below.

Go Gay!