You know I love this stuff:

Picked up a flyer from a coffee shop. It's for a celebration of May Day. You know, that major holiday to celebrate the workering classes. Popular in the Soviet Union, France and all those other places. This flyer lists events for what it calls "May Day- anti-capitalist & autonomous festivals of resistance."

And the first thing being brought up to help with resistance?

This: PuppetLOVE! A Festival of Radical Puppetry.

Now of course, the obvious question is what is Radical Pupettry? Is it a puppet show featuring sock-puppets of Che Guevera, Trotsky and Mumia? Or is it puppets who are known for their radicalism, like trying to organize other puppets into a big huge puppet union or protesting "Sesame Street" for unfair labor practices against other puppets. Or is it just an issue-related puppet show? Because nothing rallies the masses like puppetry. I'm sure watching a couple of puppets representing global capitalism swallowing the oppressed, third-world minority ranks right up there with Sifl & Olly in terms of puppet hilarity.

The other thing is that it reminds me of the John Cusack character in Being John Malkovich. You remember, he played a puppet master who wanted to do something with his puppetry, like represent the dehumanizing of the world in the midst of technological society. And then, when he became John Malkovich, he was able to bring a whole new level of art & culture to the world through puppets? Are radical puppets like that? Is that what they are trying to accomplish?

Which would be funny if it were because in the movie, it was supposed to be a joke.

Obviously, somebody didn't quite catch the fact it was supposed to be a joke.