h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So many people come late into knowledge of Fantasy Fest each year that a new phenomena has spawned: The Pre-Fest Weekends. Upon finding out that their carefully planned expedition to Key West will fail to fall on Fantasy Fest Celebration dates, they endeavor to convert their vacations to mini-Fantasy Fest celebrations. Others are enlisted to their cause, and what should be confined to two semi-dangerous weeks of heavy partying, nudity, and general fasching-style behavior (carefully supervised and orchestrated, of course) starts to break out in anarchic revelry.

An otherwise quiet weekend at the end of the sleepy season has turned into berserk-o-rama tonight. A fight was spotted at the corner of Fleming and Duval (dissolved with dispatch by the superior police force) at the unheard-of hour of eight p.m. while many incredulous bystanders gaped and gawked at this unthinkable breach of standard island behavior.

Others will no doubt follow as the date nears.