Today is one of the High Holy Days in the city of Alexandria. That’s right: it’s Big Trash Day in our section of town.

(The City now calls it “Spring Clean Up,” but that name just isn’t catching on).

That means last night there were Trash Parties (Del Ray’s answer to Burning Man). These are the infamous annual events wherein much alcohol is consumed while mighty structures are constructed of the cast-off items that haven’t been scavenged yet by the roving bands of DIYers in minivans.

It was one of these parties that once led to sightings of an adult male wrapped in a futon and stuffed into a Hechinger’s lumber cart, being rolled down a neighborhood street while he yelled, “I’m the human hot dog! I’m the human hot dog!”

Good times.

I stayed home this year and watched I am Legend instead of partying, but more on that tomorrow.