Tulip Festival


By DIA, Section News
Posted on Fri May 09, 2008 at 05:03:30 AM EST

Go eat fried food, look at the flowers and avoid being trampled by drunken suburban mobs.

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Tulip Festival | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 hidden)
Next year (none / 0) (#1)
by Tom Paine on Fri May 09, 2008 at 07:09:13 AM EST
How about next year the Tulip Festival has hundreds of people wearing "Democracy in Albany" T-shirts? How about blue and white; blue for democrats and white to show we're here to clean house.

 

Save the Pine Bush (none / 0) (#2)
by nycowboy on Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:12:53 PM EST
Make sure to stop by the booth along with the rest of the activist ghetto!! There is a lot of good info you probably will learn by going there.

I will be there several hours on Saturday morning/early afternoon. I might also help out over at Peace Action booth if so inclined.

Also ride your bike to the festival. Avoid traffic hassles!!

Thank you, but no thank you. (none / 0) (#3)
by hawkny on Fri May 09, 2008 at 04:52:50 PM EST


Come on Now!! (none / 0) (#4)
by professor on Sat May 10, 2008 at 08:01:13 AM EST
Do you guys have to blast everything that happens in the city?  This festival has been going for 60 years and it is one of the few things that has withstood all of the bullshit and corruption.  Come on, please stop the constant bashing of every program, festival, statement or position that the city has.
This is a great site and it is really making peo0pole think.  I just feel that a certain amount of credibility is lost when there is a constant barrage of criticisim.

Tulip (none / 0) (#5)
by Corruptany on Sat May 10, 2008 at 10:24:00 AM EST
The Tulip Festival is the only thing that brings the suburban people and the ghetto people together as apposed to blaming each other for the problems. I for one see no point of bashing it and other festivals. Life is to short, we need more community events to let people unwind and see passed the differences that divide us. Its also a really fun time, I told some friends of mine in Mass about it and I brought about 15 people this year.

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Say Professor, maybe it's just me, but... (none / 0) (#6)
by Jim Travers on Sat May 10, 2008 at 08:31:44 PM EST
I don't see any bashing of the Tulip Festival in anyone's comments and it seems to me that the only "barage of criticism" to be found is yours.

Not meaning to be offensive or confrontational here, but if after you re-read the comments you still feel someone's been critical, would you mind pointing that out for me because I just don't see it.

http://www.albanytulipqueen.com/history/

Here you jim (none / 0) (#7)
by Corruptany on Sun May 11, 2008 at 02:23:00 PM EST
"Look at the flowers and avoid being trampled by drunken suburban mobs"

Sounds pretty critical to me..why not include the drunken urbanites in there or the thugs breaking into suburanites cars.

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note (none / 0) (#8)
by DIA on Mon May 12, 2008 at 03:58:35 AM EST

If i'm critical of the way suburbanites act, how would that be construed as anti-albany? Or perhaps anti-tulip?

If I didn't like living in Albany, I'd move.  Tomorrow.  I choose to live here because I want to.  The reason I write this blog is i believe the city has a lot of potential if properly managed.  

If you want glowing pieces about tulips, queens, and flaming windmills, there are other places you can go for that.   Perhaps some day I'll start writing human interest stories about meat vendors, but just because I don't, doesn't mean I don't enjoy fried food.

Flaming windmills!! Si, senor.... (none / 0) (#9)
by hawkny on Mon May 12, 2008 at 04:09:20 AM EST
As excerpted from Don Quixote (and told by Sancho Panza).  Someone lay awake for many nights to come up with this idea.  Was it you, Nick?

to's got my back (none / 0) (#10)
by DIA on Mon May 12, 2008 at 04:10:00 AM EST
Over at the TU, TO has the story you all are looking for.  Fried food AND ponies!  


Some come for the fried food. Some come for the crafts. Some come to ride a miniature pony and get their faces painted, and others to drink beer and watch the bands.



Some see it as a chance to increase awareness of homelessness, of community gardens and of peace groups.
and they came...60.000 strong (none / 0) (#11)
by hawkny on Mon May 12, 2008 at 10:55:43 AM EST
on two consecutive days...as a warm up to Memorial Day on the Plaza and Alive at Five!!!  

Give Jerry Jennings a hand, folks...

Egad! Batman!  The tan one has done it again...

ZzzzPowwieeeee!!!!...right on the kisser!!

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