manchester_black

On the weekend, I found myself on Whyte ave (or the blue mile or oil slick as the phillistines have taken to calling it) and I found it to be a very surreal experience. Traffic was closed off of the street, and the further to the center of it I got, the more the crowd found itself comfortable in the middle of the road. I think the first thing that came to mind that it was a very tribalized experience, random clusters of people celebrating the same event in their own little ways, from a huddle gathered around a drum, gyrating to a primal beat, to the ones who accepted their ape ancestry and scaled trees, lampposts, or anything that can support their weight, or crowds of guys surrounding and ogling a girl uninhibted and confident enough or too drunk to know better flashing herself at them. It was an interesting experience to say the least, and it made me wish I had taken an anthropology or sociology class so I would've been better equipped to analyze the situation.