Most parades can be quite demanding. They require a lawn chair, a strategic parking plan and the patience to endure people marching in line before the “good” float finally rolls through.
The Left Hand Artist Group Absolutely Absurd April Fool’s Day Parade is not most parades. And a bonus if you are a resident at one of the senior living facilities along Pratt Street: You don’t have to do a thing. The absurdity, the bubbles, the kazoos and the gaggle of artists dressed like a Lisa Frank fever dream will all roll right up your window.
At the very specific time of 5:47 p.m. on April 1, a collection of what organizers call “well-behaved humans and animals” will gather near Roosevelt Park. At another very specific time of 6:18 p.m., they will begin marching, or, probably more appropriately, drifting forward. If that timing seems odd, well, that’s because it is…