Today is an mbare.org first! Newly hired (or was she enslaved? I just don't know) photoreporter Erin "Red Tails" Cechal has submitted images of old, [not so] washed up Madison Hippies camped out on State Street. Well she made a fool of herself running after the wrong bus to get to the location. Hah!!! Also in her haste, she forgot her warm mittens and the cold Wisconsin Dairy Air (Or is it Derriere?) I never said we employ/enslave talented people. Erin even regularly calls me a laundry list of neat things: cold, indecisive, Gap Baby, heartless, capitalistic... If you'd like to be a reporter for mbare.org, send me an email (m@mbare.org) or send me an IM (BareUwm)!
Anyway, here is Red Tale Volume 1, by Erin "Red Tails" Cechal (She has red hair, y'know!):
I asked the guy in the beaverskin hat how long they planned on continuing the refugee camp, but because I'm not a good reporter I can't remember if he said the 5th or the 15th. The 5th would make sense because that's the day of the International Student Strike taking place here at 11am in front of Bascom Hall, but the 15th would also make sense because that would be exactly a month.
I also asked beaverskin man if they had gotten hassled at all by the police, and he said they were told they needed to replace any of their makeshift tarp tents with real, fire proof ones.
Beaverskin man also told me he's only been away from the camp once for a couple of hours to take a shower. The whole time I talked to him a guy was banging on drum behind him.
From the pamphlet table I took a postcard to send to Herb Kohl declaring that I am against war and Iraq and support HJCon 20 ( Which I didn't even know existed until today).
To view all of the photos, click here!
Ahh those guys are so funny. Thanks and Great work, Erin! Its too bad you told me last night, "I'm never taking anymore pictures for you god damnit." :( Anybody know what HJCON 20 is? I need to go do other things. Read Lucretius etc... Blech.
Peace!!!!
Posted by mbare at February 27, 2003 02:37 PMAck. Her mbare.org media badge looks really crappy. I'll fix that for next time, if there is a next time. Heh. :P
Posted by: mbare on February 27, 2003 02:38 PMTerror alert lowered to 'yellow'!!! Thank God! Can I put away the duct tape I never bought now? Wheee. :P
Posted by: mbare on February 27, 2003 02:39 PMI object! That report was taken completely out of context, as in the context of the conversation when I told you not to publish that thing word for word because it was not a report, merely a recalling of events.
I don't remember calling you Gap Baby but you did forget the following:: hairy, gay, bastard.
Man, and I thought I loved you because of the report, but then you come back with the "hairy, gay, bastard." Keep up the "reports"/posting.
In all honesty, if I was living in Madison right now, I'd be doing what ever I could do to help these guys get their message out.
And feel free to rip me apart because of that.
Posted by: bass on February 27, 2003 07:25 PMI would have to disagree with you on that bass. I guess I can't complain, because I'm really glad it's not summer and they're doing this. I mean, can you imagine the SMELL?? All those dirty, dirty hippies, beating the drum all day, working up a nice thick layer of B.O. I'll give them credit for picking the coldest weeks of the year to do their protest, but I really wish they would have picked a better spot. I really like being able to walk through library mall, but with them there, it makes it hard w/o being hassled. And I HATE THAT! Now, I'm not a very political person, so I guess Madison is probably one of the worst places I could be living in for that, but it really gets under my skin when people have to do big protests and tell every one that walks by that they should support them for being crazy. Now, I know that's not what they're really saying, but anyone who wants to stay out in the freezing cold for days on end has to be a few prawns short of a galaxy.
Posted by: Skidz on February 28, 2003 12:46 PMWe should have a "no more protests" protest.
Hmmm...this is like the movie PCU.
(Stolen from James)
Set hippie beating sticks to 'womp'!
Posted by: Dep on March 1, 2003 11:09 AM"anyone who wants to stay out in the freezing cold for days on end has to be a few prawns short of a galaxy"
or just has something in their life that they actually strongly believe in.
but what am i thinking, protesters certainly should not maintain the right to have their oppinion heard, ill shut up.
downplaying an act like this seems to downplay excactly what they are trying to accomplish.
or do you believe that the right to be pro-active should be revoked as well?
sorry, rambling mass of comments, i know... but this sort of pisses me off
Posted by: bass on March 1, 2003 04:51 PMI'm not saying that the right to protest should be revoked, or that they shouldn't have the right to have their opinion heard. There are just far better ways of doing so. Stopping every single person that walks by your refugee camp to hand them slips of paper that end up getting thrown out at the next garbage can doesn't help.
And if you were walking down state street and get stopped by a foul smelling, quite repulsive looking person trying to tell you to help stop the war because its bad, what are you going to be thinking?
Sure, I give them credit for doing what they can to help, but this sort of thing annoys me.
Posted by: Skidz on March 2, 2003 02:04 PMGotta challenge the "hairy, gay, bastard" thing:
- Hairy: Mike's pretty smooth, overall.
- Gay: Being his sister and in a committed relationship with a woman, I have to ask whether "gay" is supposed to be an insult, here?
- Bastard: Nope, our parents are married.
Posted by: Joanna on March 3, 2003 12:23 PMHairy:: Admittedly I haven't seen Mike without a shirt since France, so he might have discovered the benefits of Nair by now.
Gay:: Not an insult. Merely stating that he has homosexual tendencies. What is insulting is that he refuses to embrace them. I also thought it flowed well: hairy, gay bastard. For the use of it in this way I apologize to the gay community.
Bastard:: I quote webster's dictionary's 3rd use of the word bastard "an offensive or disabreeable person."
Posted by: Erin on March 3, 2003 05:43 PM*groan*
Speaking of the France trip, does anyone have a digital picture of me holding up the pieces of that toilet seat? Oops.
Posted by: mbare on March 3, 2003 06:46 PM"is supposed to be an insult, here?"
Completely off the subject, but the use of this comma throws me off completely.
Posted by: bass on March 6, 2003 06:16 AM*smacks self for overuse of word completely*
Posted by: bass on March 6, 2003 06:18 AMHmmm. You may be right that the use of the comma was an inaccurate punctuational usage. (I just made punctuational up.)
But it's more fun to argue about that than the rest of this. Where's mom with Strunk & White when you need it?
Posted by: Joanna on March 7, 2003 05:08 PMGah. Don't give her any ideas :)
Posted by: mbare on March 8, 2003 01:08 AM