Yesterday was the infamous Heart of the Beast Puppet Theater May Day Parade! A celebration of spring, liberal ideas and all things granola/crunchy! Mom took care of Lewis and Art and I had a "special time", just the two of us. I rode us over to the parade on the bike and darn, do I wish I had a picture of the dozens of bikes locked up to the same fence we were locked up to. Anyway, the parade theme was, "This is our econmony. Dig it!" or something like that. I didn't have a program so I could really make sense of all the esoteric sections. I don't really know what these pigs are about. But they were fun! Art and I had a great spot, right on the pavement with no one in front of us so we could see everything really well. We stayed for nearly the whole parade - over an hour and a half! We left when Art had to pee and the long stretch of politians and their supporters were coming through. Local liberal celebrities like our mayor R.T. Rybak, State Rep ...