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Some people have really elaborate costumes and spent all their time being photographed.

A very lovely man:

One of at least two peacock ladies I saw. This one said she spent two weeks making her costume:

I'm not exactly sure what this person was, but it was very large and looked to be made entirely of plastic:

I thought these protesters were great. They were marching all around Market between Civic Center and Castro. Since you can't see their signs all that clearly, I'll transcribe them: "Peace is for pussy's" "Fuck the Poor!" "More guns 4 the children" "Herpes rule!" "Fuck peace" etc...

On our way back to the bart station, we passed a group of 20 or 30 people who had a very large sign that said "YES! (on prop. such-and-such)" and were just chanting "yes! yes! yes!" while pounding their fists in the air. It was amusing at the time.

Some guys dressed as, well, feminine products. The o.b. guy's box says, among other things "obehave" and "obi-wan kenobi, you're my only hope". The Vagisil box says "Cleanses away fish odor. Needs no water or gargling."

I saw at least 3 or 4 Waldos in the crowd, and every one was constantly hounded by people: "Hey Waldo, I found you!" "Waldo, where ya been?!" etc.

The ride back on Bart was *not* fun -- similar, I'm told, to an average day on the Tokyo subway, but maybe with more oddly dressed people. Then again, maybe not.

Everyone who was officially employed that evening for city things had to have a sense of humor. And for the most part, they seemed to. Police officers were cheerfully dumping drinks out onto the ground, Bart guards let hundreds of people through the gates without paying, etc... and dealt with the thousands of drunken revelers in an overall very nice manner.