Splishing and Splashing

It rained on our parade on Saturday. A nice constant drench of big ploppy raindrops. We moved forward with constructing the monster, using an awning to try and shield it a bit. The business opened though so we had to move out from the awning.

We didn't even get a chance to take a picture before it started to melt. Those blue and red pieces on the end of the slinkys were art pieces cut from art books. They melted first. So I took them off. That was about the time the Columbus Museum of Art came over and said their stuff was melting in the rain too. I'm glad at least one of them got to see it though.

Here is us trying to raise the monster after giving him an umbrella hat. This is the closest to a full picture of the monster that we got. Unfortunately.

and here is where the monster ended up before the parade even started. Now, it is common for me to take time building something and then destroy it in the performance. In my experience, life is about building up to something that never happens. About spending time and energy building something that gets destroyed in an instant. So this was made to only last one day. However, watching people throw their garbage into something that I worked on for so long, before it even got to be used for what I needed it for, well that was an experience. I was expecting to be upset but the whole situation was so typical that I just had to improvise and keep going. I tore the slinkys off of the monster and we wore them as we splashed our way through a soaking wet parade. It was an illustration of "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain" Dance we did. It was magical.

I need to thank Totalie Awesome, Maulie Squee, Meester, Casey Oddfellow Ward, King Sweetbeard, Queen Sweetrack, Serge Le Sinister, and Peach Roulette for joining us in the downpour.