While people were still buzzing mid-week about the Great Stephanie Edwards Rose Parade Snub of 2006, here in Glendale the talk has been all about the city's super-lame float.
Currently parked in front of the Alex Theatre, the float -- "Imagination Express" -- screams low-rent kiddie TV show character. As we wrote a few weeks ago, Glendale seems determined to top itself by making every year's Tournament of Roses Parade entry more creepy than the last.
Franklin Avenue reader Scott chimes in:
I just thought you might like to know that for the last two days, the City of Glendale's spectacularly creepy "Imagination Express" Rose Parade float has been parked in front of the Alex Theater on Brand. If you're in the neighborhood, it's worth a dumbfounded glance.
Although the "Imagination Express" supposedly will take you to a place "without war, where homelessness does not exist, the environment is clean, and animals roam free," there were several homeless people and diesel belching trucks on the same block as the float when i walked by.
Incidentally, I'd take the "Imagination Express" over Amtrak any day. On the 23rd my girlfriend and I were supposed to take the Coast Starlite ("It'll be romantic!") from Union Station to Oakland at 10:20 in the morning, and our train ended up being delayed until 4:45pm. When we realized that our scenic journey would be completely dark and that we wouldn't arrive in Oakland until 4am, we called JetBlue and bought two tickets for a flight that night for the same price as our train tickets.
Good to note. We're still mulling a train ride up to Santa Barbara, before the Amtrak service disappears altogether.
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