How Berkeley Can You Be?

Once a year, the local citizens here let their freak flags fly in a march down the main streets of town in costume. (Some residents are always in costume.) Everyone ends up on the lawn in front of City Hall. It’s always great for chuckles. This year the Mayor was allotted a spot next to the East Bay Atheists.

Obama supporters will appreciate our political climate:

I love the Cheney + Satan bumper stickers.

Herod Blank, who lives down the hill from here, has been hosting “art car” festivals for ten years. The How Berkeley Can You Be festival brings out the art cars in droves. The pen car has 10,000 pens glued to it.

A great addition this year was a half dozen young women wearing little but body paint: