What Could Possibly Go Wrong At A Festival?

[dr_pretentious]

Okay, festival-going folks, I need to collect potential incidents for the Sebastian novella. What are the weirdest, most high-stakes, most improbable, most hilarious and/or most dangerous things you’ve seen happen at a festival? What interesting disasters have you seen averted, or had a hand in averting? Please don’t use names or identifying details, because I don’t want to be party to accidentally upsetting, embarrassing, or libeling anyone. I just need some ingredients to zizz together in the Cuisinart of my fictioneering brain so I can make some story pesto. If in doubt, please respond privately.

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[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

The memorial was for Laughing Starheart, a radical faery type, artist and tattoo artist and singer, who used to be a staple at midwest gatherings back in the '90s. He had AIDS, and fell off the map at some point, and then a couple years later we heard he had died -- so we did a whole shrine for him at Samhain and people who only ever saw each other at festival showed up from three states away to toast his memory. And then later we found out he wasn't dead. Very weird, processing that one in reverse. I've no idea whether he is still alive, I haven't seen him nor heard tell of him for fifteen years or so at this point.

My portajohn story was from PSG, back when it was happening in Wisconsin. Apparently portajohn employees everywhere really like boobies. :-)