03/20/2025
Parker and the Very, Very, Extra Jam-packed Super Terrific Swiss Extravaganza
A.k.a. Friday, March 7th
I didn't leave my hotel til like noon, when I took the 13 Line to Escher-Wyss-Platz and eventually made my way to Aura. I say eventually because I missed my first tram while taking pictures in the courtyard by the tram stop and then was again delayed by sightseeing off Bahnofquai. I bought the cheapest ticket for the trolley, though, so I didn't hang out that long.
Also, I vaguely read something about street photography in Europe and knew enough to tread lightly. Something about non-identifiable faces and the necessity for "photo-traps"... preparing scenes and waiting for people to occupy them.... and I just didn't want to spend the time understanding what I was doing. I felt that understanding would make pleading ignorance much more difficult.
There was some type of carneval going on in Zurich. Balloons, confetti and beer tents littered the streets. Large gangs of clowns with fistfuls of trombones and of other various woodwinds and percussion instruments roamed the quaint neighborhoods, their music filling the stone streets and sounding for entire city blocks like they exist just around every corner. I roamed too, and I met met Marcus outside of the Ass Bakery where we discussed day-old bread and the ass bakery that is American politics. I ate raccleton a discretión (a LOT of cheese on a very small amount of potatoes: deserves its own, separate dissertation).
It was 5p.m. when I arrived at the Fashion show in Zurich, and ran into Reppa Senta who gave me directions into the club. When I walked in the red carpet was already in full swing, which I was thankful for since I was sitting on three thousand red carpet photos from the two earlier shows. I claimed a front and center seat in the photo pit. 5000 more photos. After party mojitos. Luke and I stop for one more drink and a Puerto Rican woman tries to turn him straight because he is unquestionably the most beautiful man in the world.
My phone dies. I meet Emmett. Neon hunt. Meet Allena. Lime scooter to the hotel. Phone call w/Kaylee.
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