Monthly Archives: January 2010

Nope, this isn’t an illusion or trickery of the camera or bad photoshop work, it really is an ENORMOUS kite shaped like a bear sporing a red shirt that said “Hug Me” and it was flown by some people who drove up from Iowa for this year’s kite festival and it was super duper awesome on a whole lotta levels. But really, isn’t that what you expect at a kite festival on a frozen lake?
Yes it is, because kites are awesome and so is winter, even when the wind is maybe admittedly a TINY bit chillier than you’d prefer, but at least there’s plenty of it to hold up the kites and the cocoa is free and the sun is bright and they play “Summer Wind” over the PA every year and every year it rules I don’t care if it came off some “songs for kite flyers” mixtape.
We went back on Sunday and more or less had the whole lake to ourselves and our kites. Why must there be a festival to be festive, right? Right.
Easily easily easily one of my favorite events of the winter. (No offense to Huna’s annual ‘Christian Bale’ movie night, of course.)

Here’s the balloon drop and ‘gag’ from Phish NYE in Miami. I’ve watched it 3 times. I was in bed before the ball dropped here. Because I’m old. But good lord would I liked to have seen this run of shows. Tho that’s easy to say, I suppose.
It’s in HD, so go full screen and turn it up.
Happy New Year, everybody.