The Madness SpreadsIt wasn't all that weird for Dewey. I'd be crazy not to. It was always rowdy. It seemed like the Spaniards knew what to do, and only the two Americans were scrambling for cover, hopping a fence as the bulls raced by. Well, two people in a bull suit, actually. "The whole town's abuzz, " he said. Sometimes odd things happen at the beach. "To a certain extent, weekenders are living on borrowed time, " Brady said. Anyway, he talked Howard into going to Pamplona's Festival of San Fermin instead, and there they were, watching the running of the bulls. Someone bought scores of giant foam fingers that said, "Go bull! " "The Sun Also Rises". This is the 10th year of a tradition created on a whim that inexplicably ignited: the Running of the Bull, apologies to Pamplona.
Garrett Walsh, District software developer and longtime head of the bull, and Jamie Fargus, Bethesda research coordinator and tail, will shimmy in, suited up. Walsh blinked, swallowed some Guinness, thinking. "We didn't so much run with the bulls as hide from the bulls, " said Howard, now a real estate agent in Rockville. When they came home, they wanted to recreate the Carnaval-meets-Mardi Gras feel of Pamplona, so they planned a beach party with paella and sangria, and someone -- probably Andrew Brady, now a Securities and Exchange Commission attorney from Bethesda -- said they needed a bull, too. He nodded -- he was in. Dewey Beach, which swells from just over 300 people in the off-season to 60, 000 some weekends in July, has been changing.
McDonnell had read it a few too many times, he said. They videotaped the first Running of the Bull, camera lurching alongside 40 or so friends dressed in white with two guys in a ratty old rented bull costume, people on the beach confused, little kids chasing after them.
Tomorrow afternoon here in Dewey Beach, police will shut the main drag as hundreds of people surge through the two-block-wide Delmarva town and storm the beach. Planes fly over the beach trailing banners: Look out for the bull! Now police shut down Route 1 to the disgust of people who have driven hours only to get stuck in a baking-hot traffic jam a few agonizing miles from Rehoboth Beach or Bethany Beach. This year, for the first time, they didn't rent a group house. Roots in PamplonaLike all great ideas, said McDonnell's friend Michael Howard, this one started over a couple of beers. Or as Fargus said, "It's so much fun... And then watching two angry bulls turn around and thunder back at them.
"That's what makes Dewey Beach unique. That changed it: Now there's a new bull costume, all clean and smiling, instead of glowering. They both started laughing. When the DJ plays "Wooly Bully, " the crowd will go nuts. The instigators were, of course, a Washington corporate lawyer, Michael McDonnell, and his beach house buddies who weekend in this laid-back, sunburned, bloody-marys-to-take-the-edge-off town. A cow arrived and flirted with the bull. Money raised from T-shirt sales is donated to the town.
"It had run its course, " Walsh said. It has become a little quieter, a lot pricier, with more condominiums and more children. "People like to goof around at the beach, " McDonnell hazarded.
On Sunday, Walsh couldn't get through one bar without being stopped by an affectionate stranger slurring, "There'sh the bull! At a neighboring bar, the band stopped mid-jam to sing "Olé, olé olé olé! " People plan summer vacations around this. Two years ago, Fargus entered the ring in a sumo costume after the matador was gored. They were all running, packed close together.... Elvis will be there.
And some guy's planning to propose to his girlfriend tomorrow at the bull ring. "If Hemingway was right... and you should 'always do sober what you said you'd do drunk, ' " McDonnell wrote on their beach house Web site, "then doesn't it also follow that you should always do drunk what you swore you'd never do sober? Howard and Brady got married and got out. She wrestled the bull to the ground as the fatador. Drinking on the beach was legal until the mid-'80s, one of the last holdouts. Then charge along the surf with a bull chasing them. Just as the Spaniards had anticipated. This year, there will be a dignitaries section with local politicians. Then again... Last week, over beers in Dupont Circle, McDonnell leaned forward and said, "I think we should rent a tandem bike.
Some guy will play Spanish songs on a little guitar as the crowd weaves out, shouting and whacking the bull with rolled-up newspapers. "The bull, " Walsh said, "has gone corporate. They laughed about what idiots they were -- until the bulls came back about a minute later. Mothers will grab their children and weekend visitors will jump out of the way as throngs appear over the dunes, yelling "Toro, toro! "
Friends launched a protest movement, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal Costumes, waved signs and got handcuffed to a pole. Other beach houses made signs to hang on decks and hosted sangria parties, cheering as the bull ran by. Montgomery was a Dewey bartender when the bull running started, then he bought the Starboard and began promoting the event a few years ago. Then, after the run, they'll head back to the bar for a ridiculous semblance of a bullfight. A bookie calculated odds and took bets on the bullfight, which often ended with someone falling to the ground and squirting little packets of ketchup. McDonnell got engaged this winter. "The bull riding in, all four legs pedaling. "It's stupidity for stupidity's sake. Walsh keeps saying it's his last time as the bull. Last year, McDonnell wore a Batman costume: the batador.
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