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HDR image from the "Narrenbrunnen, roughly translated" as Fountain of Fools in Engen, Germany.
More details about the fountain can be found here (in German):
This was the funnest wedding I've ever attended. I knew it would be big because community activist, Debbie Mytels, is the most well connected woman I know. She almost ran for public office. I've known her since I was in knee pants working my first career job. Then got to know her better when I was in the pioneer Be The Change class that she instigated with Acterra.
She was marrying her longtime companion Thomas who, I gather, does some work as a magician and is involved with the Faithful Fools, thus the entourage of fools to liven up the ceremony.
At the opening of the ceremonies Debbie and Thomas got up together to make a statement about marriage equality and pledged to fight until this right was offered to all. The rest of the ceremony was so pagan and so political and so carnival that it is how I always thought a Gay wedding should be (but those are often overbearingly traditional wouldn't ya know).
The fools included a flickr friend whom I finally got to meet. He's the one in the mask. He had a speaking part as Uncle Bob commenting on Corinthian passage from the Bible and how he was mentioning his comments to his husband. (That's the passage where it says marriage is between a man and a woman.) He is a Reverend himself and is married to Seph, an organizing colleague of mine. Also in attendance is the Grim Reaper; I enjoyed having that reminder.
A string quartet played a lovely accompaniment and some pop songs ending with All You Need Is Love. We were instructed to look under our chairs where we found kazoos so we could join in.
The almighty Elvis Fool's Gold Loaf! Hollowed out loaf, filled with peanut butter, jam, and tons and tons of bacon!
I'm getting ready to etch new badges and I've changed the logo a little. I'm told that the logo looks more apropos for a bong than an amp. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
April fools?!?!
Scout seems to be having some fun with me...
...not that I'm complaining.
I promise there is no post-editing here. This is a direct screen capture.
They've managed to fool a whole of of the rest of us for a long time now. Pandit, Liddy and Fuld belong here.
Dick Fuld cried poverty and has had to sell a number of artworks from his collection including three Willem de Koonings.
The Fulds still own a sizable art collection and five homes, including a $21m Manhattan apartment.
The latest Fool offering is a neck-through version of the classic short-scale "student" guitar that players like John McLaughlin and Todd Rundgren adopted because it allowed them to stretch out for giant extended chords.
I spotted the 'flicker' in the top left corner, which I assume is flickr's April Fool, so thought I would capture it for posterity in case other people miss it. :)
Not a full moon, missed it by a couple days due to the resurgence of winter.
But I got a new toy; and adapter to let me use my "old" Sigma 70-210mm Zoom Lens and my other lenses from my Minolta SLR on my Nikon D40. Now its back to relearning photography with no automatic anything. I like it!
A painting for Martin 'Odd Jobs' Hobbs, 60 today, beating me by a couple of months. The good thing about being an Old Fool is that you stop caring about it and just appreciate graduation from mere Young Idiot.
And where I feel a great emptiness is where I want to begin again. I am a fool who seeks himself in the dawnlight after the night has taken him. The bridge from sleep to waking is a long one, and the far shore is hidden in the mist of an apathetic mind.