Arrival

Dan Schned, Peter Gartrell and I just got to Bill Potter's apartment in Brooklyn. The trip thus far has gone pretty smoothly. We took the train down from Peter's grandmother Nona's house in Philadelphia to Manhattan's Penn Station, in the shadow of Madison Square Garden.

We staggered outside Penn. To my right was the Empire State Building and to my left, (hundreds of?) thousands of protesters were streaming down the street in front of Madison Square Garden. It was one hell of a sight. Apparently now they are going towards Central Park, or perhaps not, now that their permit got yanked. Ironically above all these protesters was an enormous FOX News billboard. So we went back down to the subway and took the L to Bill's place.

Right now things seem to be going pretty smoothly, not a great deal of disorder from what we could see. There are tons of police everywhere, but the Police State isn't here yet.

Now I think we are going to go back into Manhattan, to Union Square perhaps...

In other news, apparently I leave town for one day and suddenly there's all this crazy news about Douglas Feith and Likud spies in the Pentagon?!?? What can I say, what can I say. Nothing like an espionage investigation to burnish your convention's patriotic veneer... Fantastic, just fantastic.

Posted by HongPong at August 29, 2004 02:37 PM
Listed under Ground Zero or Bust .