But the highlight was the parade, described as the grandest of any inauguration in state history.
Large crowds of sightseers regularly gather on King's Parade, described as the city's busiest tourist street.
Mr. Fay, who founded St .Pat's for All 12 years ago, as a gay-friendly alternative to the city's traditional St . Patricks Day parades, described the mayor's comments at the Historical Society as "a bit of an olDaytory".
This rather literally pissed on our parade: he described being beaten up and robbed at knife-point, waking up in hospital, and wild drunks peeing in the streets (and on his girlfriend).
Asked to compare the beaches of what one parade participant described as the Irish Riviera to Bermuda, the mayor would only say, "I'm not in Bermuda, so I don't know, but you don't have bagpipers and nice people like this outside of New York, you don't have them any place outside of five boroughs".
This can be done in tandem with advertising for the actual parade, as described below.
MotoGP's Scott Redding will not appear in Friday's Isle of Man TT parade lap after describing the event as "like a death race" after two riders died.
In "That Beats the Band" (Topics, July 3) you noted the inability of Willimantic, Conn., to find a local marching band for its Memorial Day and Fourth of July parades and described the town's plans to march with portable radios tuned to "an uninterrupted broadcast of march music" on July 4. To musicians and music lovers, this is grotesque.
Notably, the judges don't employ the rhetorical tactic of describing this "parade of horribles," because the facts speak for themselves.
In the run-up to the midterm election, Trump tried to turn the northward flow of a few thousand desperate Central Americans into a crisis of sovereignty, describing the parade of young men, mothers and children as an "assault" on the border, which he threatened to close.
