Monday Mail: Get ready to wig out downtown

Together, more or less in line, just keep truckin' on: It's Monday Mail.

Checkin'

It is now March 7, so we're just a couple of weeks from spring's arrival at 12:30 a.m. March 20.

Truckin'

Today's opening is from the Grateful Dead song "Truckin'."

Struttin'

That's because in the reader mail we have this notice regarding an event in downtown Columbus, where hopefully streets will be open for participants to escape afterward:

Uptown Columbus is excited to announce the second annual STRUT THE HOOCH PARADE, an Uptown Columbus Comic Parade where the valley's wackiest citizens come out to entertain the masses (or at least those attending Market Days on Broadway).

The theme of the parade is music, hilarity, fun, silliness and frivolity. Saturday, April 2nd at 9:30 a.m.

We are seeking fun-minded individuals and groups to participate. So, if you are a clown, a juggler, a horn tooter, snake charmer, miniature car enthusiast, member of a kazoo band or other fun and eccentric organization, this is the occasion for you!

Applications are on the Uptown Columbus website and Facebook page: www.uptowncolumbusga.com. And on Strut the Hooch Facebook page.

Puggin'

Parade organizer Steve Scott writes:

Hi Tim,

I enjoy your column every morning and I am humbly requesting a future mention of the Strut the Hooch parade.

This is an idea I have talked Richard Bishop of Uptown Columbus into doing. We had our first one last year and it is growing in popularity. It is on the order of the Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, California only it is a political satire. Although we're 188 years old in Columbus, I don't think we're ready for "Teresa's Ta Ta Truck" or anything on that order, so Strut the Hooch is more about fun and silliness. It is an opportunity for anyone to "strut their stuff" on the Chattahoochee (actually Broadway).

There is no charge, just submit an application and release form

It will be Saturday morning, 9:30am to kick off Market Days and Art Beat.... Any mention you could give us in your column would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve.

Dear Steve:

So, as long as you guys aren't running, we should be able to distinguish you from the usual 5K.

If you're inviting clowns and political satire, I foresee a run on orange wigs.

Tim Chitwood, tchitwood@ledger-enquirer.com, 706-571-8508.

This story was originally published March 6, 2016 at 8:53 PM with the headline "Monday Mail: Get ready to wig out downtown ."