Big Boy Scout Head
Big Boy Scout Head
After a visit to the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. this past Sunday, I was surprised to see a big head rolling down 7th Street NW in front of the museum, and hang a left onto Constitution Avenue. Blaring out of the speakers was John Phillip Sousa’s Liberty Bell March, better known as the theme to Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America. Not only did this parade feature an awesome big head, but thousands of uniformed boys and adults braved intense heat for the celebration.
It’s no secret that I have a fascination with big heads. It started when I first set eyes on the Big Heads in Buena Vista one weekend in September 2000, and culminated in a pilgrimage to Mount Rushmore in 2008. This is the first new big head I’ve seen in a while, and I am happy to say I have a short video of it. As I heard the ending strains of Sousa’s march, I had a mental image of the end of the Monty Python theme with its distinctive “PBBLLLTTT” and the giant bare foot coming down from the sky. It made my day.
