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Fool that I am, I forgot to do my usual April Fools blog fakery yesterday. What a pity. However, I was at least foolish enough to attend Ann Arbor’s Festifools event.

Here  a few pictures.

Why this man is riding a tiger, I do not know:

Perhaps he thought it would turn this blue lady on:

A skeleton (who seems to have popped too many pills) was cavorting with Pinocchio in the middle of E. Liberty and S. Main. Perhaps a moral lesson of some sort was intended; if so it seemed to have been lost on the fools present (many of whom seemed intoxicated).

While it no doubt went unheeded, the best moral lesson in the foolish flotilla was this:

There were plenty of animals. Here’s a parrot with a humanoid figure dancing behind him followed by an owl with bloodshot eyes.

There was also an invasive species of some sort, dancing here in front of the Real Seafood Company:

The weirdest thing about taking photographs at events like this is that you get images of people you weren’t even looking at or photographing looking right at you, so it looks like you were photographing them even though you weren’t — because you unintentionally were. Some of them are downright spooky, as my camera generates very large files (too large to be used or shared, really). But when I view them full size, I feel as if I am invading people’s privacy though I’m not.

At one point I was very hurriedly photographing the owl as it passed, and only later when I looked at the photograph did I see a very friendly looking group of total strangers I had no idea were there — looking right at me and smiling! It looks for the world like a nice, deliberately posed group shot, and I would post it except I’m not comfortable posting pictures of bystanders without their consent.

However, no consent is needed to invade the privacy of these two very cute bystanders.

They were having more fun than anyone else there.