Aaron Sheppard - BEARDED & SHUCKED #8

BEARDED & SHUCKED #8

Octopussy: 8th ANNUAL MERMAID MARCH IN THE DESERT
ART IN WANDERLAND, JOSHUA TREE, CA 2024
performance
with (L-R) Aaron Sheppard, Camille Fowler, Alex Sheppard, Niya Rivera, Mateo Ladd, Nelani Rivera, Meg Madison, Gail Phinney, Ruby, CM Fenton (Dusty)

in conjunction with Coney Island, PRIDE, BLM, Juneteenth, Summer Solstice, Father's Day, Alzheimer's Awareness, anti-war/pro-love across the board

in loving remembrance of Murbina and Scott Canty

photos by Nelani Rivera, Niya Rivera, Aaron Sheppard

BEARDED & SHUCKED celebrates 8 years of spreading tentacles and glitter across the desert this summer! Fittingly, this year’s theme is… ta ta ta… OCTOPUSSY! (Rita Coolidge flows in stage-left, singing All Time High while Shel Silverstein clings to a buoy stage-right while reciting…)

She fed me shrimps and caviar, upon a silver dish

From her head to her waist she was my taste, but the bottom part was a fish

Oh her bottom part was a fish

Oh her hair was green as seaweed, her eyes were blue and pale

And I loved that girl with all my heart, I vowed that we would never part

Which I knew in fact was not too smart, ‘cause I did not like the tail

Just then her sister swam on by, and set my heart awhirl

For her upper part was an ugly old fish, but her bottom part was girl

Yes her bottom part was girl

Her knees are pink and rosy, and her toes are small and frail

Her body, it's a work of art, and I love that girl with all my heart

And I don't give a damn about the upper part, and that's how I end my tale