joe randel's art dump

This past weekend I took my kids to the Santa Claus parade in my town.  I walked away wondering where the heck Christmas went.  During the parade I saw a whole troop of Star Wars cosplayers (stormtroopers, Luke, Vader, sand people, even some Death Star beam operators), Gene Simmons “The Demon” (yeah, the whole KISS costume), Ecto-1, The Blues Brothers, goth chicks doing fire tricks and some heavy metal band playing rock tunes on a float.  o_O

These are the parade memories my kids are going to have.  Where are the elves?  Where’s the reindeer? Geez!

At least there was a Santa Claus at the end.