Driving a Snake

Hello. I just got back from being part of a 60 foot long snake. I was a member of McHooligans, and we had St. Patrick on stilts with a censor and stick, belly dancers, a gymnast and the aforementioned snake a la Chinese Dragon. We used hula hoops spaced throughout the thing which had a pretty scary box/papier mache head with a red stick tongue. We kicked ass and scared some kids. I was second back from the head, and we had some pretty sweet maneuvers, zigging AND zagging a bit as St. Patrick drove us from Ireland under the watchful eyes of George Wendt, televisions' Norm from Cheers. Poor guy. Apparently he was up partying until three am, and then he had to Marshall. The parade was the shortest in the world being all of 50 feet long--the length of one block. That's the angle. You gotta have an angle.