Another reason why NY is the coolest

Oh yeah...I promised to post this email from my friend Josh in NYC and his roaming reports from the protests that took place over the weekend...

iNfoCity...not just news about me...but news from all over! (TM)

Yesterday there was a huge march that started just a few blocks from my apartment. Something like 400,000 people were there. I joined in and it took about 3 hours to move 20 blocks.

Megan and I had the good luck to be standing right next to the only act of violence that happened in the march.

From salon.com
http://salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/30/sunday_protests/index1.html

"Protest Warriors, a Texas-based, right-wing group whose members have crashed lefty demonstrations carrying mocking signs like "Communism has only killed 100 million people. Let's Give it Another Chance," sent a contingent to march into the crowd. "We're about to have some fun," said Sergio Kadinsky, a 20-year-old Protest Warrior from City College of New York. At first, to their evident frustration, they were ignored or indulged. "They have the right to be here, but they're jerks," shrugged McCormick.

Soon enough, though, a group of outraged anarchists saw what was going on, tied their bandanas around their faces, and charged, yelling, "Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!" A brief fistfight ensued, during which several of the Protest Warriors' signs were broken. That was pretty much the extent of the day's violence. "

What this article doesn't mention is that they were carrying a sign that said "Black children should go to a black school". And that was what really pissed people off.

I also got to see Triumph the Insult Comic Dog right outside madison square garden. I'll have to watch Conen O'Brian tonight and see it.

This morning there were about 12 cops per block by my apartment even though I am a mile away from the actual convention. That is like one cop for every 2 people on the street!

The bike protests from a few days before were also a lot of fun. Something like 5,000 bikes clogged up the streets. The funniest thing was watching two guys walk out of a bar seeing all these bikes and one says "What's the point?" "To protest Bush" "Oh... right on." He sounded like a lost clip from Napoleon Dynamite.