When you get to the other side of paradise, things are different.  For example, you get angry oceans:

I was actually in the water when I took them.  Thanks Canon D10:

Don’t worry.  There will be an entry called “this side of paradise” too.  I am nothing if not consistent with my weird literally references.

Well, as my blog faithful may have noticed, this space hasn’t been updated for a couple of days, with good reason.  I was away.  Far far far far.

Far Bahamian away.  Grand Bahama to be exact, home of a lot of bright sun and sand and fun.

Except when it rains.  Then, then it gets interesting.  Let’s have a look see:

So freakin’ tacky.  I LOVE IT.  And there is more where that came from:

But Andre Leon Talley told me that color blocking is really hot this season.  See:

And wait wait wait wait wait.  OK, now:

Well, weird things happen when you go outside.  All the strange and interesting people who have walked across this blog are proof of that, of course.

These people however, we’re as strange as some of the other people who have graced this blog in years past.  They come from the Extraordinary Rendition band.  It is a really funny band name because it has a double meaning.  For those of you who don’t know, extraordinary rendition is basically stealing a person for the purposes of interrogating them.  Needless to say, not a friendly process. But when I spoke to the young man from the band wearing the pajamas, he told me that extraordinary rendition could also mean just a really good version of the song.  Well, I like the first version.

And my god, were they people ever LIVELY:

It’s a be-in!

What?  Like an OktoberFest Honk 2011 is going to be complete without tons of weird fashions?  I think not:

 

There are shots.  There are good shots.  And then there are icons.  This is the icon:

Boston OktoberFest Honk 2011 (Official Name) reminded me of something I thought I’d see in England or something, like if I lived in Cambridge, 50 miles from London, not Cambridge, Boston’s Red Haired step-child across the river.  I always imagined that British people like to dress up in all kinds of costumes and parade about.  I watched a lot of Monty Python growing up.  Am I really that far off?

Take for example this:

Does he not look like he stepped out of the Ministry of Funny Walks?

Or this person:

I guess they could call him “Chiffon Man” or “Man of Curtains.”  The comedic possibilities are pretty much endless.

And now we move onto whatever is going on here:

Two words, lady.  Bill Cunningham.  He’d make you famous.

And a few more before sleepy time:

 

 

Would that we all kept this for the rest of our lives?:

Well, then you probably have various and multiple insanely shiny outfits to show the world at a moment’s notice.  Not to mention, you also play a musical instrument on an expert level.

If you do either of these things, go outside.  The outside that is located in Cambridge.  Honk OktoberFest is about to start.  You have to be in a parade, play in a parade or just generally be fabulous: