We totally spaced it out this year. I didn’t even realize it was this Sunday until after it was over.

We used to go to Festifools most years, at least when we were in town. I guess we got out of the habit when covid shut it down for a few years. Back in the day, we would watch the parade for a while, then grab a ‘hattan at the Old Town before heading home.

What is Festifools? It is a “parade” of sorts with huge puppets constructed from various materials. The Detroit Party Marching Band (google it) participates whenever it feels like it. And all kinds of other people, large and small. The dictators in the top pic are Papier-mâché (I think). The pic is from 2017 when those of us (meeeeee) who hate Trump (and Putin) were still trying to adjust to our new horrible reality. This float was actually a rotating trio. Kim Jong Un is on the other side. Little did we know another new reality awaited us so many years later. I am so taaaared of people who care nothing about anything but themselves but I am kinda done for tonight.

So here is the GG in the ghillie suit he got at the army surplus store south of Gaylord a buncha years ago. Can you believe that *women* were walking up to him and hugging him in this suit? Maybe it was because his accomplice (meeee) was wearing biz-caz (red pencil skirt, black tights, black t-neck, and polarfleece vest) so they might’ve felt he was safe? And he is “woman safe”. Four sisters and two daughters. But not sure these women saw me at all. I think they thought he was adorable. I mighta been jealous about all this hugging when I was a much younger woman. Now I just gnoff and gnoff and gnoff. You want ‘im? You’ve got ‘im. I am kidding of course. I need somebody who can fix terlets and things🤪

We never quite made it past the Ark (in the photo). But later in the spring we were opening our cabins at the moominbeach with npJane and she mentioned that she and some friends were a little further on in front of Conor O’Neills or wherever that day. Some sort of drama was going on in their friend group (npJane has a bazillion friends) and I said something like maybe it was a good thing we didn’t get that far down the street. But then she said a wee bit more about the drama and I thought maybe a guy in a ghillie suit with big googly eyes might have lightened up the moment. But we turned around before we got there.

I wore the ghillie suit to work one Halloween. At least the top part. I do not dress up much for Halloween except for my aurora borealis costume sometimes. When I heard the Benevolent Despot’s voice booming over to my cube (he LOVES Halloween), I put on the ghillie suit top. He expressed amazement at my costume (or more likely it was amazement that I was actually wearing a costume). I took it off as soon as he left my cube🤪

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