May Day, after several yucky years in a row, was beautiful and magical and just what I needed. Fiona and I went and basked in the sun and admired the puppets, the dancers, the stiltwalkers, and human-powered floats. I love that all sorts of people, all ages, all ability levels, participate. Then we went and joined the Minn-Stf picnic and ate ( Read more... )

The girls and I went to May Day today. I didn't take the camera along, so I have no pictures to show off, sorry. It's fortunate the parade and festival were held today; the weather was much MUCH better than yesterday ( Read more... )

It was a gorgeous weekend. Delia struggled a fair amount with the decision when we asked her, 'What do you want to do for your birthday?' We suggested movies, and there were some she wanted to see, but that didn't seem special enough for a birthday. Yesterday, she decided she wanted to devote a day to art, and so we came up with an itinerary of ( Read more... )

May Day was late this year, due to the rain date cancellation, and I am even later posting my pictures. But here they are. I no longer have my parade book so cannot give you much commentary on the intended meaning behind many of the characters, some of them very strange, that marched in the parade. But as Terry Garey once remarked (and this sort of ( Read more... )

From the Heart of the Beast:Hello everyone ( Read more... )

I've been contacted by OutFront, asking whether I want to volunteer to man a phone bank to help defeat the Minnesota Marriage Amendment. I said I'd think about it. I'm not sure about phone bank work, but I really want to do SOMETHING. So I went to poke around the Minnesota United for All Families website to see what other volunteer opportunities ( Read more... )

Saw this link on Twitter: some great, arty shots from the May Day Parade. Credit: @DirtyHairHalo.

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May Day didn't quite feel like May Day ( Read more... )

All week, I've been troubled by the news that in attempting to kill Gaddafi, Americans instead killed his son and three of his grandchildren. There seemed to be very little discussion, much less abhorrence, of this fact in the news, just a general impression of, oh yeah, bad guy, let's kill him. If innocents get in the way, hey, that's war ( Read more... )

I didn't post about it previously, but I did go to May Day as usual, along with Delia. (Fiona, that heretic, missed it this year because she was off at a birthday party. Her excuse was that paintball was involved.) My life has since gotten caught up in further Highly Distracting Events That Are Eating Up All My Attention, so I'm sorry if the lack ( Read more... )