Beautiful downtown Pittsburgh is preparing for the G20 onslaught in every way imaginable. We will also get to see, unfortunately, how the protests on the left are as scattershot and inchoate as this summer's town hall protests have been from the right. This here, for instance, is the kind of sophisticated commentary about Sarah Palin, arctic wolves, or foxes, or whatever, and also international super-prisons hat is actually coherent when you are high but makes you look like a huge moronic spaz in public while you are coming down.
Live from beautiful downtown Pittsburgh.... well, don't try and get a grande latte, world leaders! Don't try anything in fact. Da Picksburgh is ready for you.
Well, Greenpeace has arrived! They are the kings of making really big banners. That is one big banner!
The highlight of the G20 will be the mowing down of adorable children.
Some people would like the world to know that some obscure Buddhist prophet is going to save you, even though Buddhists don't recruit, except I guess they do.
Some people who like Jesus are not crazy loons!
These people would like some international bike lanes installed across the Atlantic or something.
The streets are adorned with poetry!
And boards.
On one thing we can all agree: buses SUCK. They suck so hard. Screw you, buses! Take back the buses, the night does not belong to buses!
Pittsburgh. More like Shittsburgh.
More like fek you!
fek me? fek you. actually, no. fek = me.
Is that a political statement or some Furries getting their rocks off? Actually ... either way I am heading to Pittsburgh.
It's part of the weird hipster phenomenon of giant animal heads...
http://www.datehole.com/2007/06/07/off-topic-how-donnie-darko-changed-music/
The Residents were pioneers in so many ways ....
One of the proposed ordinances would cite people for wearing a mask or other face concealment with the "intent" to commit an unlawful act.
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A68398
What organization are the non-insane Jesus people from? They're sort of heartwarming.
The fact that you said "beautiful downtown Pittsburgh" twice. You really think it's beautiful, right?
So they decided to board up the empty storefronts? I have decided to only take pictures of carnage and civil unrest...looks like I'll be sitting home the rest of the week. The Huggables don't look like they're going to be getting up to much from what I've seen so far.
Okay I will give this to the Right: they are pros at forming a coherent, legible message and disseminating it to a populace that can barely be bothered to read anything multi-syllabic.
The left really needs to focus when it comes to protests on doing the same.
I mean, you're protesting G20 and you've got some Maitreya bullshit, climate change, et al.
Hone the message and address the specifics - be topical, succint, and maybe come up with some tea-party gimmick that sells on the six o' clock news; otherwise it's too easy to let people like Bill O'Reilly call you a bunch of hippie wackos.
My dad, who is semi retired and has almost no reason to go to his office, is working everyday this week in eager anticipation of all hell breaking loose downtown. He's got front row seats to the potential chaos and isn't about to miss one second of it if the protesters decide to start storming the barricades.
your dad sounds awesome.
Pretty much. I haven't seen him this giddy since I don't even know when. I usually live in downtown Brooklyn and he always encourages me to attend to every mob (preferably Gotti, but is there any other?) trial happening at the Federal Courthouse across the street: "Get there early for good seats! Mob trials are the best show in town!"
My friends in Pittsburgh have been referring to the G20 as "Project Mayhem" for months in anticipation.
Could dude with the BIKE LANES sign even be bothered? Jesus buddy, that think looks like it has a duck head, not a seat. Is that he acid trip bike lane you want?
The duck head is the seat? I thought that was the handlebars and the other thing (duckling head?) was the seat. Also, the depicted bike isn't steerable.
It's a representation of the alien head off Independence Day. Nor is it pedalable.
Worst drawing of a bicycle ever.
How has no one mentioned the word "yinz" yet? "Yinz" is like "first!" in internet comments about Pittsburgh on sites that usually do not talk about Pittsburgh. I answered my own question?
It's like a farmer's market of earnest pet causes.
Guys, Pittsburg really is beautiful. It's set on all these hills and surrounded by rivers and now that the steel industry is dead that smell is gone!
Also, why is the Matreiya person surrounded by Kazakh, Guyanese, and Dutch flags?
ok, first off we don't really say "yinz" besides ironically anymore. also ifruh, don't forget the "h" at the end of pittsburgh. we're kind of sensitive about that.