The morning news reminded me that it's now been a decade since this happened.

The first three words that came to my mind when I read this week's prompt: Occupy Wall Street ( Read more... )

March 20, 2003

As certainly everyone who lives in Pittsburgh knows, The G20 Summit will be happening in town later this week.

I have to admit, I'm torn.

On the one hand, I feel like the biggest wimp in the world for even considering not going down there. I feel like it's 1969 and I live in Vestal, NY but I just don't feel like going to a concert this weekend ( Read more... )

Tent city is going up right now. What kind of press would we get if they hauled the alumni off to jail?

Here, ladies and gentlemen (and those of you who fit neither description), is my annual posting of the link to that gigantic thing that I wrote up when I got arrested five years ago, on the day that the war started ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to write this post for a week or two now, but have simply not known where to begin. With local elections looming just a few days away, I figure it's now or never.

Remember when I got arrested? Remember how thoroughly trumped up that bullshit was? Remember how completely we had all been convicted before we ever walked into the ( Read more... )

Tonight just illustrated absolutely everything that I've been talking about all week.

Community:
Tonight I was feeling both hungry and social, so I headed to Quiet Storm. In short order I was joined at my table by We Can't All Be and Michael the Hat Man, and, later, by Matthu. Matthu read We Can't All Be and I a story he'd been working on, about ( Read more... )

( In honor of the one year anniversary of my arrest, I give you a little trip down memory lane )

What a strange life ( Read more... )