May Day in Minnesota
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lydamorehouseI dragged Mason to the Heart of the Beast's 39th Annual May Day Parade and Pagent yesterday. I had a great time. He did pretty well just sitting on the hill where the pagent was setting up until the crowds rolled in. He was enjoying reading in the sunshine and eating all the fun food that vendors had set up around the man-made lake in the center of the park (fresh cut french fries! Italian ice! Hot tamales! Stuff too expensive but excellent smelling from food trucks!). But Mason started to get grouchy when it became wall-to-wall people, many of whom refused to sit down (we were right next to a traffic aisle, unfortunately,) when the action started.
I brought along the camera, but I accidentally had it stuck on movie mode, so all my "pictures" are actually micro-movies that all end with shots of my pants, because I think I'm setting the camera down... hillarious, really. Anyway, I may attempt to crib some other folks pictures just to give you a sense of the strange and awesome that is this yearly ritual.
This year's theme was Hallelujah, or something like that, but the pagent was its usual cryptic strangeness. There was what I could only describe as a live-action powerpoint presentation (in 15 languages!), the ghostly moose of doom, the Sun Goddess arriving from across the lake, and the dancing renewed moose.
At one point Mason leaned over to me and said, "If there's going to be an obligatory pagan quiz, I get it. Cycle of death and rebirth, right?"
The hilarious part? I hadn't really gotten it, until he pointed it out to me. I was all, "Wha...? Moose???" Although I should have figured it out because moose are one of those animals (as my friend Bill pointed out, like the polar bear,) that are very sensative to environmental changes--as he says, 'a proverbial canary in a coal mine,' and so Minnesota is in danger of losing its moose population to global warming. In my defense, moose make super surreal creepy puppets. Plus, the Heart of the Beast puppeteers are really good at mimicing animal movements and clever enough to take advantage of the natural hidey-holes in the terrian. So, when the ghost moose appeared, it was like s/he came out of nowhere. And then she led all the 'dead children' away and people clapped so I was all, "Do we like the moose of doom?"
Very spooky.
It's probably hard to imagine the scale of these puppets, too, but they're HUGE. Here's a stock photo of the Maypole Goddess to help you imagine:
It was a beautiful day yesterday. Both Mason and I managed to get sunburn on our faces. Also, I think we had the misfortune of sitting next to some people from Minnesota Normal and I might have gotten a slight contact high from all the pot being smoked in the vacinity. Perhaps that's why the Moose of Doom struck me as so DEEP and MEANINGFUL. I'm not sure.
Mason also got a balloon hat and sword, neither of which made it home intact. We almost never watch the parade, so a large part of our frustration every year is the waiting for the damn thing to start. Pagan Standard Time, don't ya know?
I brought along the camera, but I accidentally had it stuck on movie mode, so all my "pictures" are actually micro-movies that all end with shots of my pants, because I think I'm setting the camera down... hillarious, really. Anyway, I may attempt to crib some other folks pictures just to give you a sense of the strange and awesome that is this yearly ritual.
This year's theme was Hallelujah, or something like that, but the pagent was its usual cryptic strangeness. There was what I could only describe as a live-action powerpoint presentation (in 15 languages!), the ghostly moose of doom, the Sun Goddess arriving from across the lake, and the dancing renewed moose.
At one point Mason leaned over to me and said, "If there's going to be an obligatory pagan quiz, I get it. Cycle of death and rebirth, right?"
The hilarious part? I hadn't really gotten it, until he pointed it out to me. I was all, "Wha...? Moose???" Although I should have figured it out because moose are one of those animals (as my friend Bill pointed out, like the polar bear,) that are very sensative to environmental changes--as he says, 'a proverbial canary in a coal mine,' and so Minnesota is in danger of losing its moose population to global warming. In my defense, moose make super surreal creepy puppets. Plus, the Heart of the Beast puppeteers are really good at mimicing animal movements and clever enough to take advantage of the natural hidey-holes in the terrian. So, when the ghost moose appeared, it was like s/he came out of nowhere. And then she led all the 'dead children' away and people clapped so I was all, "Do we like the moose of doom?"
Very spooky.
It's probably hard to imagine the scale of these puppets, too, but they're HUGE. Here's a stock photo of the Maypole Goddess to help you imagine:
It was a beautiful day yesterday. Both Mason and I managed to get sunburn on our faces. Also, I think we had the misfortune of sitting next to some people from Minnesota Normal and I might have gotten a slight contact high from all the pot being smoked in the vacinity. Perhaps that's why the Moose of Doom struck me as so DEEP and MEANINGFUL. I'm not sure.
Mason also got a balloon hat and sword, neither of which made it home intact. We almost never watch the parade, so a large part of our frustration every year is the waiting for the damn thing to start. Pagan Standard Time, don't ya know?
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Date: 2013-05-07 03:56 am (UTC)We stick with the parade, because if you go north of Lake Street it's easy to get a front-row seat. And since the parade does in fact normally start at 1 p.m. you can make a pretty good guess as to when it'll start passing you.
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