I’m a little behind the “what’s wrong with Seattle’s pride parade” curve, but I was away and, er, for other reasons - repressed memories, mostly - I couldn’t bring myself to address the pride parade issue. But there is one thing I wanted to get on the record:

Anyone looking for evidence of just how obtuse, clueless and out of touch with the zeitgiest (sp?) the folks who run Seattle’s pride events are needn’t look any further than the theme and logo for last month’s pride parade.

Pride explosion? Diversity is a blast?

Even before the London tube bombings - and, yes, this occurred to me before the London bombings, even though I’m only now getting around to saying something about it - choosing “explosion” as a theme for any event is just… wrong. New York, Bali, Madrid, Tel Aviv, car bombs, IEDs, bombings in Saudi Arabia (why can’t they get one into the tent with their despicable royal family?), the deaths of 14 Marines today in Iraq…

Explosions and blasts these days don’t call pleasant, celebratory images to mind, just images of death and destruction and quagmires. One can only wonder what will the theme be for next year’s pride parade will be. If that killer bird flu sweeps the world it’ll probably be something like, “Pride Influenza! Catch It!”