Sitting here in the XCel Center with Joshua Trevino, who was out in the protest melee today, but took off when the anarchists started breaking windows. He took the great shot above. The thing is, Josh says that the police were well-behaved, and the anarchists were the ones breaking the law violently. Still, a powerful image above.
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John E., perhaps your ice cream choices are limited,
Posted by: Houghton | September 2, 2008 12:15 AM
Not mine - if I can't eat the ice cream of my choice, I don't want to be in the revolution.
I echo John E. from the counter-revolutionary side, viz. -
If loving Friendly's Vienna Mocha Chunk or Friendly's Peanut Butter Cup* is wrong, I don't want to be Right.
*the latter with a whopping 210 calories per 1/2 cup serving - when in doubt, go for the comfort-food scale-busters...
I'm currently shopping around a sitcom pilot turning round a French-anarchist patriarch constantly at logorrhea'ds with his Franco-centralist son-in-law "Tête de Viande", the latter favoring a "national greatness conservatism" Seinesibilité; the role of Anarchie Bunqeur, in Gaulle in the Family, would seem a shoo-in for Gérard Depardieu:
Garçon, le manière Chevalier sang
Chansons to sate our Piaf pang
Les hommes commes nous pour freedom rang
Those were les jours...
[Anarchie at piano removes Gauloise from lips, smirking]
Just tried a humongous single scoop of Cappucino Crunch last night, and was delighted. For political and gustatory reasons alike, I'm a Ben and Jerry's fan. What's the opposite of a boycott, where you go out of your way to buy something for political reasons?
And the photo looks exactly like the photos my clients took during their demonstrations at the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago, one of which showed a guy with a backpack with a kitten peeking out of it. My clients were charged with 6 mob action felonies apiece, and beat them all, largely on the strength of such photos.
As a print junkie who turned 8 in 1970, and one known for sneaking into the 15-and-over section of the library of my mom's Mayberry-like hometown (Negaunee, Michigan, in the state's Yooper Peninsula) during the summer, I saw many an issue of Life and Look magazines lying around the coffee tables of the time, many of them rich in photos of that favorite kabuki of the age, Kounterkulturalists v Kops.
The most memorable images thus, to my dresser-drawer-snooper's eyes (Pop, I knew everything - Junior.), involved barenaked ladies and gentlemen alike confronted by the law, first as protestors, later as streakers.
I remember one such, of a male in nature's costume and with police headwear making of his package a covert agent, shown on-camera by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, with the caption "A Hatful of Ralph", which brought down the house.
This might be it, according to one commenter:
flickr.com/photos/seattletim/358684758/
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