The Gods Are Bored

  Wow! Look at the length of that title! Might be a Gods Are Bored record! Long story short, I'm at a crossroads with my beloved Altra L...

  Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" We're from Philly, fuckin' Philly. No one likes us, we don't care. Go Birds! Wanna ...

  Happy New Year, fans! Those of you just joining "The Gods Are Bored" might not be aware that I am a badge-wearing Philadelphia M...

  On New Year's Day 2021 I sulked around the house and watched reruns of past Mummers Parades. Not so 2022! Back on Broad Street with th...

  I spend too much time on Facebook. Click "Like" if you do too. One of the reasons I spend so much time there is that there are s...

  Oh, Wretched New Year! This would have been my 10th year marching in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade. Alas, quite sensibly, the 2021 parad...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," wishing we could sneak into Davos and eat the rich! Or at least eat what the rich are eating, whi...

What can I say? It was a sunny day, and I had a few hours to spare while my daughter The Heir and her s.o. went canoeing. That's how I f...

I think this is the 118th year that Philadelphia has hosted a Mummers Parade on January 1. Like many events in big cities, this parade beg...

This tumultuous year is drawing to a close, and that means it's time for another Mummers Parade! Philadelphia hosts an annual Mummers ...

There's some spark inside me that makes me want to march. Parades, protests, it's all the same to me. You close the roads, I'll ...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" I'm Anne Johnson, and last time I looked, I was a woman. So I guess I still am..Give me five ...

Wow, what a beautiful day! Look at that sky! It's Spare and me, out with the Two Street Stompers on New Year's Day, brightening ...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," where nothing is new under the Sun ... except the year, which turns over every 365 days (and some...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," home of a proud Philadelphia Mummer! EXHIBIT A: Anne and Spare, Philadelphia Mummers Parade 201...

Most people stay up on New Year's Eve to be awake at 12:00 when the next year begins. Not me. I go to bed early. I go to bed early b...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" Wow, a whole week and no post! Annie has been a lazy girl. Let me tell you parents out there: Y...

Maybe it was the arthritic hip. Maybe it was my daughters growing up. All I knew was that I had spent too many years sitting on my perfectly...