Thanks so much, Sam, for posting this.

Being out of the country right now, I'd been following these actions via my good old local IMC, but it's been a bit like viewing it all through the Hubble Telescope Narrow Field Camera — vivid sharp detail, but only little bits of the sky at a time.

The first accounts I saw had me slapping my forehead, wishing I were back in town, shooting the whole scene, as all reports portrayed a totally rockin' city, although your impressions describe something a little more in character for DC — mainly, lamer than lame, especially the image of Medea Benjamin being borne on a bed by her attendants and slaves…uh, that is, comrades. What the fuck is up with that tired old broad, anyway?

That FTW action sounds like it was the only place to be in town, though. I ragged on them severely after that first action, after seeing the fotos, but the second one — at the military recruiter — had me wishing to hell I'd gone and shot it, kicking myself while hearing The Clash's Overpowered By Funk playing in my head for weeks afterward.

Given the importance of the occasion, however, the weather should be no excuse. I've been at a major WCW event a couple of years ago, in February, in the coldest, sloppiest downpour ever, real DVcam-killing weather, but that didn't stop the turnout that day — and let's remember the Big One, F15 2003, on the bitterest, ball-bustingest bone cold day ever in NYC (our bus just barely made it back to DC ahead of the friggin' blizzard).

And, what's this about all the Obama supporters at the demos? Jesus Christ on a Segway, man, those goddamn' boy-band groupies are everywhere! Why wasn't there a Black Bloc around to chase those assholes off the street? I also read where Democrats.com was a co-organizer of this shindig — yeah, fucking typical. It's like you can't organize a goddamn' thing these days without the friggin' Democrats showing up to suck all the oxygen outta' the place. And those friggin' Obama cultists — sometimess I want to just smack the shit out of 'em all, just stand 'em all in a line, and slap 'em all with one big swipe of my arm, like the Three Stooges — SLA DA DA DA DAPPP!!

Well, anyway, Sam; thanks again. Looks like I didn't miss a thing.