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Give meh a small chinee special


A delivery truck converted into a customized fast food mobile restaurant called, “Hungry Man”

On the side of this van, a Rambo character is painted armed with an arsenal of kitchen utensils in preparation to do battle with his hungry customers. The aluminum pot is his helmet and the swizzle stick is a short missile range launcher. What is not too appetizing is the drain pipe which is spewing cooking oil over mounts of hamburgers buns.


Fighting food hunger and parked in St. James, Trinidad and Tobago

Eating out in Trinidad and Tobago can be an experience in itself, and we Trinidadians are quite fickle when it comes to food particularly served from the street. Yet many people find the food from these vendors to be quite tasteful and delicious as they combat the weather, jump over canal water and shove their way to the window...Give meh a small chinee special nah.

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How to draw in customers :

As the story goes, a corn soup vendor in Port of Spain accidentally tipped over his pot of corn soup uncovering a pair of dirty underwear among the mess and horrifying his customer in the process.

What a catchy slogan: We bringing it home!

Ethnics in sponsorship: It should be noted that when companies commit to a project their logos are prominently displayed in order to get their full advertising worth


Get ready T&T for more of these tasteless billboards throughout Trinidad and Tobago. Well as the saying goes, money can’t buy taste and this highway billboard is a sample of the quality of advertising in Trinidad and Tobago for the 2006 World Cup

Key notes:

1. Make it cheap since it is a temporary billboard
2. Stick to typology because photograph is expensive
3. Remember this is in support of our Bank comes first
4. Offer prizes to be won with first preference to the Bank’s employees …they have accounts with us too.

More balls in support of the Soca Warriors football Team, Trinidad and Tobago

Architecture Digest -Local Bars

Not within the pages of Architecture Digest April issue 2006

In many Rum shops in Trinidad and Tobago, you just have to walk towards the back and pass by a special room generally occupied by “All-Fours" card players. If you may glance through the bead curtain, there is an atmosphere of heavy drinkers, smokers and gamblers. Sooner or later you'll hear the sound of a full hand of cards thrashing against the plywood table followed by a ruckus outburst, "Pa pa yo.... I take yuh Jack!"


Trinidad Aesthetic - A gambling bar room with a plywood veneer table and matching set of black iron chairs

The Brooklyn Bar's table with matching iron chairs and blue stenciled wallpaper works with the beige floor tiles.


Whats inside a Rum shop

This is the front part of a popular bar in Port of Spain called "Brooklyn Bar" which serves patrons intoxicating liquor. "Two intoxication drinks please”.
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Terms and meaning

All Fours is the national card game of Trinidad and Tobago.

Thou Shall Call You

The Creation of Man as Nokia screen display

Cellular etiquette: T&T

1. Enable the loudest ringtone to alert those FREE incoming calls since your phone works only one-way.

2. Hold it as a mike and speak loudly into it.

3. Make it a fashionable vinyl pouch accessory for your wrist, or as neat bulge in your brassiere and dangling holster. Most importantly make it look obvious in public. (I have a phone!...one-way).

4. On your daily routine, always have your head tilted downwards at 45 degree angle. This is necessary to monitor (with an eye glazed look) for those FREE incoming calls or the awful mishaps of missing any calls. " I miss two...who call boy?". Your arm and hand will automatically extend to correspond with this move which can be performed while standing, sitting, walking, driving or at any position what requires not much physical or mental capacities except for the human desire to gossip or to be seen with the latest model phone. The flashier the better. “I get new $49.00 TT cell….call meh nah, It working one-way.”

5. When accepting a FREE incoming call make sure you speak at a decibel level loud enough to annoy those around you.This is an indication that you are a V. I. P standing on the pavement waiting for your red striped Maxi Taxi. “Girl meh taxi reach, wait.. hold nah..I’ll take a window so I can get range”.

6. Try at all cost not to assist anyone who has an expensive phone and needs to use yours matter what. This means they can't make a phone call with their 3 cents credit remaining.

When opportunity knocks......Here are scores costumers standing outside a mobile depot in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Their determination to tolerate the scorching heat for a cellular phone at a price range of a KFC five piece chicken special. (Original please)

Hello Hello Hello! A childhood memory of playing walkie-talkie made from two empty tins strung between with twine.

The 1966, Star Trek science fiction television series which produced the communicator.

Satisfaction Guaranteed

Through this beam of light, I’ll blow these gentle bubbles towards you as I beach myself on these Caribbean shores to get my nails. hair and waxing done at the Cleetra de Beauty salon.

This lovely yet very weathered wall painting wirh a poor judgment in typographical spacing is a portrait of a mermaid beautified by Cleetra de Beauty Salon in Princess Town, Trinidad and Tobago. The Artist has taken his or her time to make this lady, a Naomi Campbell look alike to glow and sheen with an everlasting inner beauty. And those perspective clients and Super Models wannabees who past this wall painting incorporated as part of a parched flower garden (or purposely done to give the feel of sand) this is a sneak preview to wonders of the expert hair beauticians inside.

Cleetra de Beauty for all your beauty needs: Hair / Nails / Make up / Waxing / Hair product

Korean; “ I NO NO WHAT FLAG LOOK”

Up up and away in Germany World cup 2006


An inflated ball mounted on a blue inflatable ring – Site Specific 6, Port of Spain, Trinidad.

On its last leg of traveling throughout Trinidad and Tobago, and then to Germany, the inflatable ball called “The Goodwill Ball Roadshow” finds itself at the doorstep of a popular restaurant in Port of Spain causing a stir of excitement in support of the Soca Warriors team. The inflated football was fastened with rope and with five concrete weights which kept it grounded and not from flying away into the Queen's Park Savannah.


Enthusiasts signing the ball without looking at the flag which represented Trinidad and Tobago. What Nation is that?

Hmm...Caribbean Art - An Eclectic Mix Of Things

A Caribbean Artist renders the Caribbean? Stuart Hahn - Ritual ( colour pencil 1993 See more

What is Caribbean Art? What indeed? There is one book, “Caribbean Art” (Veeerle Poupeye) that attempted to do this a few years ago. The book was royally panned by many artists I spoke with from Barbados to Jamaica. I found the criticism harsh actually, because to me it was a start at least, to put some contemporary art in the Caribbean into a context.Is it work that has historical content that relates to the Caribbean region? Is it art that includes images of things found only in the Caribbean? Is it the work of a Caribbean artist, whether the person uses Abstraction or some other non representational form or technique? To answer that question it may do well to look at it from another perspective.


Jackie Hinkson Site specific at the atrium of the former Queen’s Park Hotel, Port of Spain 2006. Depicting six different aspects of Trinidad, " Where We Going From"

For example what is American Art? Or Canadian or British Art? It certainly is not an artist using that countries flag or food as a reference. (Not that it can't be) It is the artists themselves putting out work from that particular place, works of strength and so very notable to the world that that region becomes known. As has happened with Japanese artists over the last few years with their Super Flat works based on Manga and other Japanese animation and comics.


Joscelyn Gardnert at CCA7, Trinidad - Barbados-born, living and working in Canada (is this Caribbean Art?) See more
In the Caribbean it is a bit difficult to say that artists are doing that because we are all on our own little grains of sand trying to make livings. That is what residencies are for. An opportunity to meet other artists from the region, to work with them and to get to know who they are is very important. But it is also important for artists in the region to have something akin to an Arts Basil, or Arts Miami, where artists can put their works out for sale in an environment devoted to art from all over the Caribbean. This would be a task, because so many people are working in particular styles. It would have to be professionally handled. What is considered craft, what is considered installation...things like that.It would be good for us to do something like that.


"Tobago jig" is this Caribbean Art? (Best Village, Trinidad and Tobago)

Art has been included in CARIFESTA. A Caribbean festival. But it is relegated to a corner of it. These shows should be in Jamaica and Trinidad and travel to the rest of the Caribbean. I say Jamaica and Trinidad purely because of size, money and I believe skill of organizers and artists alike. What matters ultimately is that artists from the region really should do things together and get out of their respective islands and explore what is available elsewhere in the Caribbean. We do it with carnival after all. - Adele

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The humble roadposters at SWWTU Hall

Ah, the humble roadposter. One of the major reasons we began our interest in public art all those years ago. Where else can you learn names like Joey Lewis, SWWTU Hall, Rennie B’s Birthnight Bash and other choice signage over the years that whether you went to the ‘bashment’ or the black and white ball, you knew that if you happened to pass by SWWTU you had to look in to see who was wearing what and why. The SWWTU Hall itself says ‘old people teaching young people a ‘ting or two, or tree! I never imagined any reason to go to SWWTU as a teenager. As I got older and wanted to go to Kitchener’s Tent which is situated at SWWTU, only then did I venture in at all, and what an experience it is. It is a very nostalgic space. All it is really is a big hall, but the people make it nostalgic by their dress and their attitude as you can see traditions being passed on before your very eyes. However the Hall is not the only advertiser of fetes. There is the Fireman’s fete every Carnival. There is Soca by the Silo’s, WASA Fete and other signage. In the 1980’s and 90’s the signs got so Large that they caused debate. The signage is also accompanied by very overly colour saturated. Loud and sometimes lewd party invitations. But I believe that that taste is generational and belongs to the group 35 and under.



The SWWTU set get invitations that look like old fashioned ‘garden party’ stock of heavy solid card in colours like baby pink or baby blue or yellow and say things politely, like,’You are cordially invited…” But that is a whole other discussion that shall be left for later. These posters are always written in bright colours in Sans Serif type. My particular interest in them comes from the quirky things that happen on them. Sometimes dates change and some reworking has to take place as in the case of the Emancipation Ball poster. I like to see as well the sign painters attempts to squeeze as much as possible into the space without making the poster completely unreadable. These posters came upon criticism recently when it was brought to the publics’ attention that many of them are tacked up on telephone polls which is actually illegal. I have grown up seeing these posters all year long, so this new interest in their placement struck me as curious. They are as common and expected as the weather itself. How much the party planners have heeded the laws remains to be seen. This signage talks about a whole industry that goes by unacknowledged, but represents a very big part of the Trinidad aesthetic. - Adele

Mars: If Yuh Not Red

A wall mural depicting a Mar landing of some sort, St. James, Trinidad and Tobago.

You do not have to look very far around the streets of Trinidad to see things that seem a bit unusual in terms of eclectic choices. You may shake your head and wonder what exactly possessed the purchaser to go for that combination of elements! What was in the thoughts of the sign painter? Who agreed to the choice of colours? Did anyone consult an architect and most of all, is this serious or is it a joke?

Welcome to Trinidad kitsch. thebookmann and I had a conversation with a doctor a number of years ago, who was telling us about his attempt to buy a present for a friend who lived in Canada. He told us that he ended up at a hardware store, struck by the show window. He did not intend to go in, but the window just compelled him. What was in this show window? Pink toilet seats and accessories hung up like a Christmas tree. He could not believe his eyes. He probably wondered whether as I stated before, people were being serious.


Cone-Head

Before I go on, I must state one of my favourite kitschy signage from Port-of-Spain. “ Stationary and Lingerie Shop” Now that is the essence of what kitsch is all about. Kitsch began as an art style in the twentieth century, coined by Germans to describe popular objects like books, magazines, posters, illustration, advertising, comics and pulp fiction. It defined in many ways the Industrial revolution, and represented affordability of the masses to consume products. Kitsch actually has deep, serious social underpinnings, however today, Kitsch is art poking fun at itself. It is basically saying that there is beauty in the absurd, but it is clearly absurd, as well as amusing. With all things for mass consumption, it is inevitable that things fall in and out of favour, and so they can easily become kitsch.

This sign was made for a Carnival band. It is quite elaborate, and clearly the artist must have spent quite some time on the mixing of colours to get the planet Mars just right. The typography choice and the placement of the elements make the billboard unusual. I have no idea whether the artist intended the head of the person on the far right to be a Martian or just an exotic looking man? That shadow is it a space craft? The billboard taken as a whole is quite sincere, and sincerity is another ingredient of what is kitsch. -Adele

As thebookmann remembers thebookmann website and "Public Art"

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Loose Lips Sink Ships

Facets of kitsch Art lifted here, and presented perhaps, as exotic or new from the stand point of a international audience. A Fete promoting poster stapled on a utility pole, Trinidad West Indies.

Ah, the humble roadposter. One of the major reasons we began our interest in public art all those years ago. Where else can you learn names like Joey Lewis, SWWTU Hall, Rennie B’s Birthnight Bash and other choice signage over the years that whether you went to the ‘bashment’ or the black and white ball, you knew that if you happened to pass by SWWTU you had to look in to see who was wearing what and why........read more from thebookmann original website

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To act and counter-act balance - Bryan Bullen

Grenada has had a troubling history, from the American-Cuban conflict in 1983, to the storm that changed her entire landscape.

And here in the InterAmericas Space of the Caribbean Contemporary Art, Trinidad and Tobago these ingrained moments have materialised into a sculpture entitled; Misbehavin' Properly .

The Grenada-born / Canadian industrial designer, Bryan Bullen has engineered a free-standing object animating more like the invading American helicopters on the beaches of Grenada or visually, as a bullet-proof shield encasing the assassinated Prime-Minister Maurice Bishop's (localised product of "Cocoa") shirt-jack. The shirt-jack is a familiar garment to the Caribbean and worn by the working men and politicians alike. Hung on the centre rod which supports a canopy and base of the structure. Rows of metal strapping bands are strand over an elongated cage braced by prop-like steel rods. A blue coloured metal bin surrounding the shirt is boxed in by fine wood-grained panels, indigenous to the small Caribbean island. At the opening of the enclosure, two half doors mimic a Caribbean wooden dwelling and shelter the Crocus material cocoa leaf shirt-jack and mounted surveillance video camera, which captures and projects those in attendance.

In similarity to the effects of the storm, Ivan and Misbehavin' Properly, what Grenada experienced that day filters through the metal canopy of this sculpture. A roof, yet roofless - like ripped galvanise from the wooden rafters of houses. The storm, Misbehaving and defiant. And without being literal, this work represents his country realistically, dismissing the iconic gimmicks of flags, or strips of national identity to jog an association.

For the record, Mr.Bullen is fixated by the principle of exposing the skeleton which would house its owner. His previous sculptures have relied on that primary role. For "Misbehavin' Properly," though, a hand crafted metal drum is forged into shape by the bare hands of the artist, then assembled unlike a Lego building block, but with unusual materials relating to transport and trade. Mr.Bullen speaks of Globalisation but is this what he means? Wood, metal strapping bands, cables and metal tubes - objects we see daily yet neglect its purpose; "A electrical pole centred by cables," or transport wooden crates used to import foreign cars and car parts franticly recycled as structural walls for homes to accommodated poorer citizens. For the layman this arrangement of "building" materials makes no "concrete sense". But for the artist it speaks of a language of recyclable structural possibilities and a vision of an irregular shape firmly standing.

To act and counter-act balance

It stands complete, a peculiar sculpture viewed by a spectator's puzzlement and awe of its construction rather than its beauty. What Mr.Bullen has achieved is a feat of moving will. A steep staircase takes you to the exhibition space located on the second floor of an industrial complex with no freight elevators. A detail to which Bryan Bullen should be commended for by engineering the foreseen component to the construction and assemble of a defiant Misbehavin' Properly freestanding sculpture. - thebookmann 2005

Very "Dusty" Vibes

A popular and loved wall painting covered with specks of white paint

This wall painting is quite liked by thebookmann and was photographed a few years ago. But today at this spot near East Dry River, Port of Spain, the mural is beginning to weather, and soon the "Lion of Judah" and typology "Blessing To All" will be completely obscured by the wrought iron scrapping continually placed on the shed.


Sea Lots, Port of Spain a wall in trust of God

The placing of imagery related to the Rastafarian religion throughout Trinidad, and the Lion of Judah drawn and painted as an emblem of Ras Tafari, the known Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie. According to the rastafarian belief, Selassie was the Messiah, the second coming of Christ referenced in the Book of Revelation.-thebookmann See others spots at: Lavenitille Princess Town

San Wo Kee / Moy Hing's Chinese Laundries

One of the oldest "Chinese laundry" Trinidad and Tobago

Along the corridor of this fairly large Chinese laundry situated in Port of Spain and one of the oldest established in Trinidad and Tobago is an elderly woman sitting quietly at work. She, according to the San Wo Kee Steam Laundry owners has been an employee for many years and her simple task is to hand wash each garment, HAND WASH.


A washer from 1940

One of the traditions of having your clothes steamed and pressed is the way the garment are wrapped, yet white plasic bags now replace this custom. On the top shelve of San Wo Kee there are packages wrapped and tied with brown paper and twine. (The stubs are numbered by hand with a Chinese brush) Stacked and caked with dust, the darker paper decolouration indicates that the package haven been not been collected as back as far as 1987, and San Wo Kee launders says that your polyester jacket in generally ready in three days.


Wrapped in brown paper and tied with string with its stubs numbered by hand with a Chinese brush and in 2006 a number of parcels are still waiting for their owners to collect

The Chinese owner Hg Din children still operate the family business and they were kind enough to allow thebookmann into a World still set in the 1940. One of the interesting objects that is reminiscent of that period is a washer and dryer now, then and who knows permanently out of order including the Hoffmann Press for which the laundry once prided itself on. And in the back room of San Wo Kee Steam Laundry, the laborious task of a woman who’s gentle hands knot, roll, wring and hang dry your clothes.


A green cage and window welcomes your soiled clothes

A few weeks ago, thebookmann had photographed this Chinese laundry in San Fernando, it is one of the very last few business sporadically situated throughout the country. The Chinese laundry is one of the attributes to the Chinese here in Trinidad and Tobago.


Moy Hing's Chinese Laundry, San Fernando

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Finding A Home - Steelpan or Steelpan Painting?

The Steelpan, conceived by Joseph Charles at the Steelpan Museum, Trinidad and Tobago

What constitutes a gallery or museum space? Is it the white walls? The empty converted space? Or the love of one's work? All of this is prevalent in the choices made by folk artist Joseph Charles who decided to do just that. Mr. Joseph has found a house with white walls and has called the space The Pan Museum. His work was first featured at the National Museum a few years ago with a colour catalogue. Not satisfied with the response to his work, Mr. Joseph decided to do something more. It was here that the museum came into being. Starting anything as serious as a gallery requires a great deal of planning, and Mr. Joesph has attempted to show a chronology of Pan history, using his work as the narrative. He also includes audio of famous and familiar calypso's to go along with the images, as well as artifacts on many of the folk stories about Pan and Pan life.


A popular Mosque at "East Dry River,"Port of Spain, Trinidad

This is a tourist’s glance of Trinidad and Tobago's culture though the classical landmarks interpreted by Joseph Charles, and his vignettes of the "Pan" experience are divided into six rooms where one or two paintings are displayed. To enhance the ambiance of each room, a few artifacts are placed such as a metal scratcher, green bottle and spoon.


(Salvatori) once the tallest building in Trinidad and Tobago with a vintage steeldrum and Fancy sailor costume at its side.

The gentleman walking us through the exhibition was quick to tell us that during Carnival, when they had the bulk of people coming to the museum, many foreign tourists and embassy people knew the stories he was trying to tell. He was quite surprised by how much non-Trinbagonians knew about the steelpan history. It made him aware that he would have to handle his own knowledge in a different way. All of this is very helpful t a new space like that. It means that after the initial idea, the museum must grow and change. But moreso, do so with much more relevant information and reference materials. After all, the story of pan is spreading daily and what people want to come to see is something much more than they already know. A growing museum is essential for pan historians and enthusiasts alike.


A kitsch postcard view of a small Caribbean island where a street parade introduces a musical instrument to the World called the steel drum.


Percussion instruments as part of the artifacts

For those of you who would like to go to the Pan Museum, there is a flat price of TT$60 per person. This may be a bit pricey, considering that the National Museum is free to the public. However we believe that this price can be negotiated down, particularly for schools and for the elderly. So make the trip to Mucurapo, St.James where the Pan Museum is on lease for two to three months. - Adele
See another rendering of the vision of the Steelpan as a wallpainting from an Artist weed high and out of World

Thugs and Punks – Trinidad and Tobago

Airbrushed wall Art of a thug and whore - Trends in culture, Trinidad and Tobago

At the age of 18, to have a tattoo is a rite of passage, and at the “Static Pulse Artistic Designs Tattoo & Body Piercing,” San Juan, Trinidad, you enter a small red room is filled with several posters of a variety of symbols and iconography to choose from. We were told that the average person wants what they see on television and what they have seen on Gangsta Rappers or images that can help them look hard and dangerous. Our Tattoo guide sounded many years beyond his age (despite his plethora of tattoos), he said that he could see the slipping away of morals in Trinidad and Tobago because all that people want are images of Guns and Girls.


Ghandi airbrushed on a tee-shirt. (Upper right)

I had been looking at the tee-shirts that they also do and I saw two that struck me. A very well rendered image of Mahatma Ghandi and his wife next to an image of a lit marijuana cigarette. In the vein of the conversation I said to the tattooest, “More Ganja than Ghandi” He said that that was unfortunately the case.


"Gun" courtesy of Static Pulse Artistic Designs Tattoo & Body Piercing

There was a guy who came in and wanted a gun with bullets, but could only afford the image of the gun. Again we lamented that we hoped that that was true in life as well for that misguided person. However, lets face it, these tattoo guys who started their parlour two years ago and also work on the bodies of cars, are not going to say no to someone who wants Fifty Cents or M&M’s images all over their back.


"Spad" of Static Pulse Artistic Designs Tattoo & Body Piercing


Courtesy of Static Pulse Artistic Designs Tattoo & Body Piercing

These things are not cheap, and they get to see what is going on in the minds of the young and the fast in Trinidad and Tobago every day. Tattoos have always been about bucking the norm. Sailors got them and women who wore them were considered prostitutes. It is in our nature to want to be conservative on the one hand, yet subversive on the other.


The detail of a tattoo on a young man's back. Courtesy of Static Pulse Artistic Designs Tattoo & Body Piercing

Today a tattoo goes a long way in playing it safe while presenting an element of danger. So maybe the guy who could not afford the bullets gets to live another day because he manages to appear mad, bad and dangerous to know in his neighbourhood. It may not be right, but it is life as it is on the street today. - Adele
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I want a tattoo of a woman’s lip just above my vagina with her tongue protruding and licking at my clitoris.......a female client



You have it or you don’t. Style, panache or just being Robert Seales, a tattoo artist advertising his work and that of two other tattooists, Troy Ford of Barbados and Roger Actwell on his biceps, arms, chest and shins. The owner of Tattoo 4 life works from a small room with all the amenities for getting a tattoo. And as he prepares his clients on what they should expect, the hum of needle on occasions have made people faint during the Session. Clients who are came in drunk or asked for an absurd tattoo are generally declined.


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Phagwa - A 1970s B-movie

Phagwa (courtesy of Alex Khan)

A infograph which details the root causes of the Phagwa Disaster of 2006, Trinidad and Tobago. Could this tragedy have been averted? Or was it the inevitable outcome of a chain of events set into motion centuries ago? We may never know for certain....

Phagwa was a catastrophe out of a 1970s B-movie, or perhaps Bee-movie is more apt. So though I have not much to report, I've excerpted below my description of the day's events.

I was attending a Hindu festival of Phagwa (Trinidad is 50% East Indian), a celebration of the first day of Spring, marked by festive salvos colored dyes and powders on anyone within range. No sooner had the opening prayers were uttered than a cloud of Africanized (a.k.a. "killer") bees erupted from the Samaan tree under which everyone was taking cover from the Mid-day sun. It's moments like this that you remember you are in the Tropics, where everything is bigger, weirder, or just plain alien (there is a tree in the main park I call a "spatula tree" since that is exactly what appears to be hanging in the hundred from its droopy tenrdrils).


The prophetic 18th-century tapestry, which shows Lord Siva's epic battle against a swarm of bees. Note his uppermost hand, holding a pair of Snow-cones with which he taunts and enrages his adversaries.(courtesy of Alex Khan)

Anyway, people were wildly beating zig-zagged retreats away from the tree, rolling on the ground, or slapping themselves in paroxysms of terror. The bees were not randomly flying around, but were instead forming groups, targeting individuals, and dogging them methodically and relentlessly. Those afflicted by these clusters of bees sought help from the crowd, who fled from them as if from lepers, for fear of becoming the bees' next targets. The official announcers, searching impotently to say something instructive and allay the sudden panic, suddenly blurted out, with great authority, "Turn off the Snow-Cone machine! I repeat! Please turn off the Snow-Cone maker immediately!"

Like Ashcroft's duct tape invective, it was a successful demonstration of how one can combat fear with total absurdity. Within five (long) minutes, a pack of bees small enough to fit in a coffee-can had emptied the field of 200 people and brought the Vernal Equinox to a screeching halt.