Anarkids Highlights of the 9-4-08 RNC Protest

My son Leo III put together this compilation....



Good job, son!

UPDATE:

I did have the good fortune to meet up with Mitch, Lassie, Jamie Delton, Marty Andrade and others...

Please check their blogs, as well as True North, for some kick-butt coverage.

Watching the Defectives, Part III

More photos from the Anarkid demonstration at the RNC yesterday.... (click on pics for full size)

...and they call it, puppy love...

And sealed with a kiss...
And who needs a drum when you have a rubber band, a stick, some Saran Wrap, and a five-gallon pail entitled, appropriately enough, "joint compound."


...more to come...

Watching the Defectives Part II

My 17-year old son, Leo III has quite a promising career ahead of him as a journalist. At least he asks the tough questions of someone who should be old enough to know better:

BTW--my son Leo III also interviewed a masked Anarkid; It was a great interview, but it was in the middle of a noisy situation, so it would have been difficult to discern what the Anarkid was saying.

I'll post it as soon as I can work up a transcript.

Watching the Defectives...Part 1

Some interesting moments of the Anarkids attempted march in St. Paul yesterday, taken by myself and my son..

In this one, we see an Anarkid, lower left, doing a bang-up rendition of Morris Alpert's one-hit wonder, Feelings.


Proving that being an Anarkid knows no age boundaries, this scarf-wearing, pony-tail clad "gentlemen" standing next to me on the railing of the John Ireland Av. Bridge was every bit of 55 years old... as was his wife next to him.

"And I'll have a double-cheeseburger...with fries!

More to come...