Sorry I haven't updated in a while--I couldn't access this blog for a bit.
Go read this and then come back here. The following will make more sense if you do.
This is the reply I sent to Bill.
Sir:
Angela Pancella here, reporting on the fruits of my spy work in the city of Cincinati.
Have now encamped with the enemy four weeks. Preliminary observations follow:
--Have come across several instances of identity theft. A city 9.4 miles to the NW bills itself as "Forest Park" though it clearly lacks a Science Center, zoo, etc. Cinncinati tries to conceal it has no Dutchtown or Baden by calling their historically German district Over-the-Rhine. Was not fooled.
--Something known as "Bockfest" happened the week after Soulard's Mardi Gras. Like Mardi Gras, there was a parade; unlike Mardi Gras, the parade was led by a live goat. Am all for festivals which owe their existence to beer (apparently the celebration commemorated when the year's Bock beer batches became imbibable) and heaven knows we need more parades led by live goats, but Cincinatti is known as "Pigtown." Why do they get the goat? Should Pigtown hog all the civic animal mascots? Recommend further investigation.
This concludes my preliminary espionage findings on the menace known as Cincinnattti. Awaiting further orders.
Angela Pancella