Like most people, I spent last weekend with a bunch of strangers I met on the internet so we could dress up our dogs in costumes together. It was a slightly absurd experience, all of us standing in a circle, watching French Bulldogs dressed up as bacon, a shark, a gold fish, a caterpillar, a hula dancer, and a few others.
It was obviously worth it, but just a little weird. I recently read a book on Hannibal Barca which mentions how the Roman military used to bring elephants into battle to trample people. And here I am dressing up my dog who eats organic food (because he has plant-killing toxic gas without it) in a frog hat with a bunch of other French Bulldogs. It’s an interesting world.