The street theater festival ended with four clusters of participants, from four streets, one of which was our street, Calle Corrales. The theme for our street was “water” (the others: air, fire, earth). This was to be mostly a kid thing led by a group of visiting street theater artists from Central America, but seeing as we provided Peta’s studio as the street’s new recycling center and the recycling center became the staging area for our street’s procession, we decided to participate.
We opted to stage a pro-recycling smurf political march. Why smurfs? Because as everyone knows, smurfs live in the forest and forests need to be clean in order for them to live full productive smurf lives. All inhibitions shed aside, we painted ourselves blue, had costumes made, made political-style rally signs (“reciclaje es pitufissimo”, i.e. “recycling is smurfy”, “agua limpia es un derecho pitufano”, i.e. clean water is a smurf right”… “Smurf Hugs – Yes, Polution – No). And of course there was an obligatory march song “pitufos, unidos, jamas seramos vincidos…”, i.e. Smurfs united, never will we be vanquished — something borrowed from Sandinista marches…
Since that march, our most amused neighbors, when we pass them in the street the day after, in “civilian clothes”, look at us and sing “pitufos, unidos, jamas…”
OK – what d’y’all think of Peta as a blonde?
I think Ben makes a pretty cute redhead!
TERRIFYING!!!!
Peta as a blonde….NO WAY !!!!!