Feeling festive
May. 17th, 2005 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonSo I went to the Santa Monica Festival on Saturday. Festivals were blooming all over Southern California this weekend, as the weather was splendid and it's post-Aprill with his shoures soote, the time when longen folk to goon on pilgrimages and all. I'm not much of a festival kind of gal, but a couple of my friends had a booth there. They do lovely letterpress printing and design—cards, plus the usual run of printed items. As this card attests:
Tell 'em Pam sent ya.
It was a lovely day—and I think I got another picture of a ghost. I can't think of what else it would be. Notice that the only ones paying much attention to it are children, and they do say kids are more sensitive to psychic emanations:
What is that thing?
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It sure ain't Barney. I guess they're thinking since Santa Monica is by the ocean a nautical theme was appropriate, but this park is about 28 blocks from the beach.
Here's the festival grounds, or some of them anyway:
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Here's Carl looking kind of grim—but at least it's a decent enough shot of the product:
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Here's Lynn looking cute as a button:
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This trio looks like someone just told them their cats had died—but again, you can see the product line okay:
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And that is all. We ate delicious homemade tamales and listened to an inane MC on the performance stage really humping the diversity theme. After some Korean drummers finished their set, she got on the mike and said, "Wow! Wasn't that fantastic?!? I'm not even Korean and I'm proud!"
That's very multicultural of you, dear. We're proud of you, too.
(Sometimes it's difficult trying to be a reformed cynic.)
Tell 'em Pam sent ya.
It was a lovely day—and I think I got another picture of a ghost. I can't think of what else it would be. Notice that the only ones paying much attention to it are children, and they do say kids are more sensitive to psychic emanations:
What is that thing?
[broken link]
It sure ain't Barney. I guess they're thinking since Santa Monica is by the ocean a nautical theme was appropriate, but this park is about 28 blocks from the beach.
Here's the festival grounds, or some of them anyway:
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Here's Carl looking kind of grim—but at least it's a decent enough shot of the product:
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Here's Lynn looking cute as a button:
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This trio looks like someone just told them their cats had died—but again, you can see the product line okay:
[broken link]
And that is all. We ate delicious homemade tamales and listened to an inane MC on the performance stage really humping the diversity theme. After some Korean drummers finished their set, she got on the mike and said, "Wow! Wasn't that fantastic?!? I'm not even Korean and I'm proud!"
That's very multicultural of you, dear. We're proud of you, too.
(Sometimes it's difficult trying to be a reformed cynic.)
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Date: 2005-05-17 05:45 pm (UTC)...those eyes! Those haunting eyes!
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Date: 2005-05-17 11:40 pm (UTC)*cringes*
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Date: 2005-05-18 03:33 pm (UTC)I know. It's totally bwoogizoid! One of the girls I went to high school with wound up becoming a clown for Ringling Brothers and I thought, "Gosh, I always thought she was a nice girl."