Shrek at the 2009 Macy\’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
What new floats and balloons are featured in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
–*Buzz Lightyear
–*Sailor Mickey Mouse
–*A character from whatever cartoon is making the most money on Nickelodeon
–*Tippy Turtle
–*Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural and other outre, pornographic R. Crumb characters.
–*A Cartman balloon with a word balloon that says “fuck” on it
–*A Meryl Streep balloon, with an inflatable Oscar for “Kramer vs. Kramer” trailing behind
–*The Pantheon of Hot Air Presidents, featuring all of them
–*The “housing bubble” balloon
–*The ballooning deficit
–*A giant turkey, which you literary types will recognize as a reference to the turkey car in Tom Robbins’ outrageous novel Skinny Legs and All. Or maybe I’m being pretentious and it’s simply supposed to be a big turkey. Damn useless postmodernist education of mine!
–*An Israel balloon wrapped haphazardly around a Palestinian balloon
–*A giant air balloon with Bret Michaels in it whose moorings will be cut and who will then be set free in a heart-warming spectacle akin to the freeing of doves and butterflies–a surprise for the audience and Bret Michaels alike.
–*A special float modeled after an SUV, like the thousands that the Ford Motor Co. hopes you can take off its hands.
–*Extra sex doll balloons from the Adult Video News awards, which, like everybody else, is trying to cut costs and avoid depreciation by reusing old items
–*At the end, Santa Claus, the patron saint of retail sales, who we hope will protect our bottom lines this Christmas
–*… and thus, hopefully, create more asset inflation.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
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