Phish Halloween Festival: California Taken Off The Map

www.phish.com/savethedate

Thousands were stunned today as the Phish.com Save The Date page was updated today.

For weeks now, they have systematically been removing states in the most creative of ways.

First fire ants, then a ship, then Vanna White cyclops squid, then God, then Mike on a Segway, then Alaska coming in and having arrows turn into missiles and blow it up.

The thousands of us who booked hotels in the area to the point where every lodging location was booked solid for quite a while now, are in complete shock.

Indio, CA was the site. It was known throughout the Phish world. We all booked hotels. It was possibly the strongest rumor in ages, all but official. Until this outrageous curveball comes and takes California off the map.

I am not cancelling my hotel reservation until the official announcement, however.

It is all too much like Phish to screw with our heads and do this. California was removed by balloons which had up and down arrows on them. All of the other states were DESTROYED. California was lifted up with balloons above the Save the Date sign on the website.

I would not be surprised if Phish did this to SAVE the STATE and while the rest of the states are destroyed from disaster, California will come floating back down with the balloons and land in its rightful place for the announcement.

This is very possible and would not surprise me one bit with the way Phish messes with their fans. I mean, look at this map already for god's sake, what a lengthy ever exciting way to announce the location of a festival over a month plus of updates on the site.

Granted, it may be time to accept the fact that California was removed like all of the states preceeding it, and that the festival is not in Indio.

Where is it then? Is it in AZ at the Dateland Farm? This has also been rumored, but was supposedly fictitious. It wouldn't be shocking since an abandoned Air Force Base exists there, and mostly every major Phish Festival has taken place at abandoned Air Force Base (Loring Air Force Base in Maine for multiple festivals, and Plattsburgh Air Force Base for Clifford Ball) and the weather would be as conducive as California.

Or is it in Texas, South Carolina, Georgia? Maybe the dark horse of Big Cypress in Florida??? Rather than play New Years there again, maybe they will commemorate the grounds with a 10 year anniversary in the form of a Halloween Festival. This seems unlikely with Miami New Years Run pretty much in the bag, but then Indio was pretty much in the bag too wasn't it?

Ah, the mystery of Phish, always keeping us on our toes. What a treat this all is.