The Saint Patrick's Day Parade in San Francisco this weekend is being touted as the 164th installment of the annual celebration.
The California town of Dublin will also have a parade this weekend.
[Note from the photo editor: We dug up some photos from a past Saint Patrick's Day Parade in Frisco.
Hat tip to a clerk at San Francisco's Beat Museum for that obscure historical sidebar item about the Saint Patrick's Battalion.]
William Butler Yeats wrote: "The best lack all convictions, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
Now the disk jockey will play the Rolling Stones' "Flight 505," the Irish Rovers' "The Unicorn," and he rarely does dedications, but just this once, for Clint Eastwood, he'll play John McCormack singing "The Empty Chair." We have to go try to solve the riddle: "Why can't Irish employees be given a lunch break?" Have a "Sinn Fein (it's pronounced Shin Fain and means "Ourselves alone")" type week.
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