HEY HEY! HO HO! GEORGE BUSH HAS GOT TO GO!

That's what they were chanting last Saturday in downtown Seattle (and across the world) as we all hiked en mass down to the piers along Alaska Street where there was a stage/podium and some extra-bad folk music. You'd think they coulda done an upgrade on the singers, I mean, this is SEATTLE for Pete's sake; everybody and his cousin is in a band!

We were accompanied by about 10,000 cops who outnumbered the protestors, the newspaper photogs and the confused tourists about 20 to 1. So if there's a lot of pics of cops it's because they were ALWAYS IN THE WAY. I even got several shots of COP HORSE BUTTS because the damn horses were in the way too. Yes, Seattle's Finest can't be bothered with busting crack dealers who troll the bus stops but they're all for weekend overtime pay. Typical.


Yes, we even had a celebrity. That's Ed Asner, long ago star of Lou Grant and other TV dreck.



I'm not sure there's enough heavily armed cops to handle these two rowdy little socialist/gutter punk/Black Bloc newbies. GET THE TEAR GAS NOW!


Indeed.



This is me being artistic with the camer-AH.



In other news, several of ma peebs have been asking about my aches and pains. Folks, this is what bunions look like. It's not pretty and they're pretty fucking incapacitating. I was actually born with them. They're a deformity of the foot and if my health benefits don't kick in pretty soon, I'm gonna buy a hacksaw, take a lot of drugs and do the surgery myself.


I have to limp to work now ...

-- Mz M.