I went over to watch the balloons being blown up in '93. Back then, it wasn't the big, commercial, controlled tourist thing that it is today, it was very low key and hardly anyone even knew it was something you could do. So it was pretty much locals from the neighborhood, like kids in pajamas and families out to watch. No barricades, no crowd control or anything like that was in evidence.

So I'm walking around seeing all the balloons and helium trucks (obvious thing, but hadn't occurred to me before I went over there is they aren't filled with a dime-store sized tanks of helium, but by big mf'ing semi-trailers.) and I spotted Bart Simpson and Betty Boop. Something looked funny, Bart was face down. THEN I realized that he was face down doing some muff diving for Betty's benefit. DAMN!!!!!! One of those WHERE THE F IS MY CAMERA? moments.

Sigh.