Just came back from the NYC Pride parade. Went with a former colleague who likes to impart life lessons. Carlos thinks I need to be less cranky and more attuned to the vagaries of popular culture; he was appalled I had no idea  one of the stars from Ugly Betty drove by us (never caught the actor’s name).

Anyway here are some pictures. There was stuff  that would make some  here shudder with disgust and other things that brought tears. For this crank it was the number of kids marching that was worthy of a hanky. Some staid and proud, others with attitude to match any diva. Kids unwilling to follow the lives us old heads did when we were the same age. Hard not to feel pride in that.