Flufferheffalumps on a Train!

I live in a fairly interesting place when I pay attention. For instance, last week we had a little celebration down the street in Union Square to honor a man with a truly excellent name: Archibald Query.

While you may have thought Marshmallow Fluff was invented in the 1940s, it was actually invented by our man Archie right here in 1917 or so. It's said the sugar shortages of WWI squashed his door to door sales effort and he sold it off.

If you're not from the northeast, you did not grow up on Fluffernutter and will not appreciate this fact, and you may be really grossed out to know we adore sugar sandwiches in our school lunches here even while trying to abolish soda in vending machines in schools. You should, however, appreciate this winner in the science experiment and food contest: a fluff volcano cake, complete with dry ice-induced steam and bubbles. Sweet.



Meanwhile if you aren't too distracted by the wacky MIT dorm building in this photo, you will notice something I've been watching for: The Barnum & Bailey Circus Train. That's right, the circus folk live in the cars, most of them have bikes parked outside the door. I think the train has all the amenities of a small town, including a post office.



See, I'm not waiting to run away with the circus, though I'd probably fit right in. I'm waiting to see an event that I think I probably missed again. They walk the elephants from my neighborhood to the Boston Garden for the circus, but it's not publicized when they'll do it. Look at this great shot someone got last year of the parade of heffalumps in front of the Stata Center.