The kidlet and I packed up a pillow and headed over to Cambridge Common today for the annual pillow fight (on the Orange Line into town, we spied a couple heading to the anime show; we concluded they were nerdier than us because the woman had dyed her hair bright red). At the crack of 3, several hundred pillow-carrying people of all ages (although mostly college-ish) converged on the area in front of the Civil War memorial and began swinging.

All great fun. A few guys got just a bit too much into the swinging part, but they confined their exertions to like-minded dudes; no little kids were hurt in the making of this year's fight. Props to Banditos Misteriosos for being on the (pillow) case.

Hamburger vs. banana - and everybody else:

The scene:

Chicken Man shows off his fighting form: