Author: Larry

It was the 50th Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta the first week in October.

Now it’s December in the 2^nd year of the Pandemic. New Mexico Burners did a float for the Twinkle Light Parade, it was manifested at LivLab, where Blaz is building tiny houses, he’s got this trailer that’s 32 feet long he uses it to move tiny houses around, he put out a call to NM Burners, some showed up, a few new faces, Setia ran it, it was Blaz’s sculpture, his signature suspended rings with a mirror ball in the middle of it, a nice set of speakers curtesy of the Sparkle Ponies, & everybody was to dress in gold as they danced alongside of it, there being not much place for people on the float. Yours truly lettered “Celebrate Solstice” on flaps that hung down on either side. No Christmasy shit on it anywhere.

While we were all waiting with our floats lining up on Silver Street, the float behind us which was honoring the memory of children who were victims of gun violence was being attended to by earnest-looking young people who had no idea what Solstice meant. We danced down Route 66; some of us on lit up Burner bikes, some of us on a living room couch hanging off the back of the trailer as the speakers blasted out songs about the Sun. Very few people got it, but they all seemed to enjoy the spirit energy that we radiated. See pictures in previous post.

We have reprinted Cherry #3 in color, my first color comic, after 50 years.