Well, I survived the 16th Art Car Weekend. This was my second year to drive the “Green Mobile”. It belongs to Beverly Hayes and is a ’73 AMC Hornet. It pulls an old (really old, like 40s) camping trailer that’s had a giant fin attached to the roof, made mostly of foam.
This year we worked on it to add a Stars and Stripes theme on the fin, with doves that had phrases on them with Green Party values. Particularly “Peace” was on the larger doves. That was about 5 days of sweaty work leading up to this years parade.
Thurs – The Art Car Artist’s Ball was in the Franklin Lofts’ Garage at Congress and Main. My car was oversized so we parked on the unfinished light rail on Main St. The Garage was fairly narrow compared to the Allen Center garage where they had the Ball maybe 5 years ago. It’s a little nicer when you could have more people/level. It sprawled for 4-5 levels, so I mostly walked up and down constantly to interact with all the people I knew.
Also, the port-a-pots (which I never used, and the women were horrified of) were some bizarre cut-off version of port-o-pots so they could fit inside the garage. They would have been much better served had they got some normal ones and hauled them to the top of the garage. And perhaps left one or two at ground level by the elevators.
Last year it was in a more spread area, and I prefer the wideness to the up-and-down. It was a good time, though, and $4 St Arnold wasn’t too horrible. Of course, many people had stashes in their cars, as did I.  But my stash was out on the street.