A splash of cold water on the inaugural celebrations

The folks at the King's Coronation must be really bummed out now :) - a bunch of us met at Lowry Mall over lunch for a half-an-hour of silence to protest the beginning of Dubya's next four years crashing around the china shop. Abe Haim, somehow true to form, showed up with a huge papier mache face meant to look like a cross between Hitler and Bush. It actually looked a bit like his father, Mark. They made the moustache and eyebrows from dog hair. Mayhap the hair was affixed with cheap adhesive. Almost immediately after we took it out of the van parts of the moustache began blowing away in a light wind. While everyone was in a circle singing, after the silence ended, Abe, who was perched on a cement fence nearby got into a shouting match with a passerby. I think they called each other "motherfuckers" and Abe said something like, "I won't be silent anymore, motherfucker."