Ah...They always come back. As it turned out, balloon boy was from San Francisco and we don't regard them as barbarians at all. Matthew was with his mom, Melissa to see the Super Bowl and Matt made those funny hats for $15 to help with his up-coming tuition.

As my mother, Agrippina du Bois once told me, "When the barbarians take over it's time to act barbaric. Or, as that snippy du Barry quipped: "When the Martians land, you'll be ready."

I put the enterprising Matthew to work immediately on a project near and dear to all of our hearts....

...the balloon martini glass, complete with pimento in the olive.