Just a thought . . .
Maybe the Great Grove Bed Race can start their own King Mango Strut and do it without the bickering that is going on. This is just in case the original Strut looks like it won't happen. The new committee can raise funds and do it fast just like the Bed Race came to be.
We can call it the Great Grove Mango Strut. I'm just putting it out there. I'll bring it up at today's Bed Race meeting.
We can call it the Great Grove Mango Strut. I'm just putting it out there. I'll bring it up at today's Bed Race meeting.
posted by Tom Falco at 11:00 AM
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I am not sure that that idea would fly Grape, but the infighting has to stop. It's just so obnoxious.
Why would anyone in their right mind try to turn the Strut into the very thing the Strut was protesting -- over commercialized, over-hyped events in Miami?
I have participated in the Strut for years and have had a wonderful time. The very thing that attracts people is that it doesn't try to be something it's not.
If it tries to be more than that it becomes hypocrisy and we seriously get enough of that from both of our Mayor's.
To be honest, the bed race has had to curtail and change many things due to sponsor requests.
The Strut should not have any sponsors or commercial ventures calling the shots. The Amazing thing about the Strut every year is that people just show up, with their units, ready to strut. No one has to organize them, they tell them the order they are in and they are off.
Sponsors may be offended by certain subjects and that would censor the Strut.
While I'm optimistic that the bed race will go off without a hitch, it has been very poorly organized as of yet. For instance the two planning meetings were cancelled (or forgoten about entirely) without any notice and the schedule of events was changed ten days prior to the event. While I hope these are first year kinks that need to be worked out, I do not believe that the Mango Strut would necessarily be in better hands...
It's nice to criticize when you are anonymous, isn't it?
Grape - you are wrong. people do not "just show up" as you stated. It takes a hell of a lot of organization like any event!If it looks old style"Grovey" it is just because of this fact.Why would you want the bed committee to run this type of event? This is completely contrary to the spirit and loss of the "old Grove" you always refer to.
What I mean by showing up is that each unit does their own thing. No one controls them and they are free to parody whatever they want with no input. If it was commercialized, groups might have to submit their ideas, get approval, told this if fine, this not not fine, etc.
Please stop correcting me people. I know more than I let on. I am not a fool.
PS - as an anonymous outsider who knows the inside problems - the main problem is liability and insurance to cover the people running the event. There has been none previously and most people connected with the strut - except one - want insurance just like EVERY other public event has. Any body hurt during the event - spectator or participant - can sue the people running the event - and they have been working under this condition for ever. It has been only luck that no accident has ever occurred.
Mr. Terry wants to control who goes in the parade and what HE thinks is funny. The only thing that should be censored is anything that is not fit to be seen or heard by children, double entrendes would be fine. Some groups get funny once they come up with an idea and get even funnier when they are putting their group together the day before the parade. Sponsors would want to control what goes in the parade as well.
Comparing the bed race to the Strut is like comparing apples to, mmm, mangos.
The "Race" is a big commercial event with a zillion sponsors. I am told this afternoon's fun will cost up to $50,000.
The Strut is in another catagory completely, has no "sponsors", and costs, I'm told, half that. What do they those Strutters do for their money anyway...beg?
yes - they have to beg merchants for money--pretty sad isn,t it..the merchants benefit, the public benefits and all the strut organizers get is a lot of hard work and aggravation. Let's see - the arts festival, which gets corp donations and sponsors charges admission ---- just thinking out loud grape ! I pay $7.00 for a 1 1/2 hr movie with commercials - would I pay $ 1.00 for the strut -- it's a no brainer . Folks - you lose the original strut for one year - it will be gone forever !! --and it will be run by another group with sponsors, censors, etc. Goodbye King Mango Strut - hello Orange bowl parade.
The strut was never to be an organized event. Look at what it has become.
Let's have rules and meetings and committees and chairpersons and bureaucracy for an event designed to mock that very thing.
Say, this anonymous agrees with everything the last anonynous said.
Let's make the Strut so organized, so bureaucritized, so overburdened with rules, agreements, sponsors, bored meetings, lobbyist, and lawyers that it looks like the bloated mess at Dinner Key we call City Hall.
We could even pay its leaders the $300,000+ firemen salaries. That would make it a true South Florida event.
My suggestion for this year's theme for a Modified for Miami parade? "King Mango Sells Out".
Anon 6:07 am,
That's a great idea. You could call it the Straw Man Strut. Had you been paying attention instead of going off on a tangent, you would have noticed that the issues are whether the Strut should become a 501c(3) so that it could solicit grants and accept tax-deductible donations and how to insure the sponsoring individuals so that someone doesn't sue the pants off the organizers the first time little Muffy topples off the Shell Lumber truck and puts a dent in her lovely noggin.
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