Glad Midsommar

An account of Midsommar is available in English from our friends at The Local.

Here in Seattle, Midsommarfest is on Sunday, at St. Edward State Park in Kenmore, from 11:00a to 6:00p. We probably won't make it due to packing activities, but that shouldn't prevent you. Where else in town are you going to be, "...eating raw fish, drinking copious amounts of vodka and dancing round a big phallus while (you) pretend to be a frog."

OK, besides the usual places, that is?

What's wrong with this picture?

"This is a very new way to meet new people. We are currently invite only, and probably always will be."

So... You can meet new people, just as soon as one of your old people invites you. And the only people in the pool are fellow invitees of the old people.

Just where do the "new" people come in again? And how is this method "new", exactly? In my neighborhood, it was most charitably described as your friends setting you up on a blind date. I believe that goes back at least to the '50s... quite possibly the 1850s.

The more things change...

P.T. Barnum, 1867: “This way to the egress.”

Steve Jobs, 2007: “It will revolutionize the way you think about egresses… forever!”