Christmas time.  Time for the parade in Highland Park with The Highland Park Thursday Evening Gentlemen's Society Circuit Bending Marching Band And Ladies Auxiliary.  I joined founder Jeff Boynton, his wife Mona, and the other members at his home.  Their home was brimming with extensive collection of circuit-bent toys and keyboards and Roland MicroCube amps and purple and gold outfits for the parade.  We prepared just as we did for the Doo-Dah Parade earlier this year.  We'd march with circuit bent toys. We'd bring tears of joy to the masses. We'd introduce legions of young kids to the joys of circuit-bent toys.  Yes, our mission was set.

From the website:  "The Highland Park Thursday Evening Gentlemen's Society Circuit Bending Marching Band And Ladies Auxiliary is a collection of eccentric lunatics I call my friends, and my wife Mona. I include myself in this description as well. We have battery powered amps (Roland Micro Cubes this year) into which we plug circuit bent instruments for the purpose of marching in any parade that will let us. Most of us are not benders, but those of us who are provide enough bent devices to go around."  Cacophonous goodness, mm-hmm.

Art, Elizabeth, and Mitch.

Estrella Restaurant on Figueroa. Was starving.  Shoulda gotten a taco. 

Ended up getting an LA street dog, our homegrown mayo-slathered, chile-sluiced, grilled onion–smothered bacon-wrapped hell yeah cooked on an I-made-this-out-of-parts-in-the-back-of-the-house grill.  West Virginia's got their slaw dogs, we've got our LA street dog, and that's a beautiful thing.

My pretty The Highland Park Thursday Evening Gentlemen's Society Circuit Bending Marching Band And Ladies Auxiliary dress.

See photos of the Doo Dah Parade from January.

This is The Highland Park Thursday Evening Gentlemen's Society Circuit Bending Marching Band And Ladies Auxiliary at the Highland Park Christmas Parade 2008.