Why are people marching hand in hand? It’s a brand new sticker, for 2024, a sticker with Puppet 1 on it and the inscription “Always Free Cheddar In The Mousetrap Baby” which is an oddly applicable slogan from a Tom Waits lyric. Even if you don’t relate to the slogan, everyone can enjoy looking at Puppet 1. He’s a good little puppet, but always very curious.
Today I went to my tied-for-favorite coffee shop in Tucson, Arizona. They gave me a little card to put up on my table so they would know where to bring my bagel out to. I slipped a photo of Puppet 1 into the back of the card and later I heard someone in the kitchen notice it and point it out to someone else. “Is that a tribal sloth?” she said.
Tribal sloth is as good a guess as any but it’s Puppet 1. He defies biological classification but he doesn’t mind when people refer to him as a bear, or a tribal sloth, or any other kind of thing anyone would like to call him. He’s just happy to have a piece of rope. He couldn’t care any less what anyone calls him, the thing that bothers him is when someone keeps moving his rope.
