Wednesday, October 19, 2011

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG: Not to get political here,* but Spacewoman reports the first sighting of a nascent Occupy Berkeley encampment. Yes, Berkeley, civic avatar of corporate rapacity, the Vatican of the Church of the Almighty Dollar. Your day has come, you fat cat Berkeley hemp bracelet barons and cigar-chomping reggae jam tycoons.

Apologies for stating the obvious, but why would the Occupy movement need a tent city to occupy Berkeley? Couldn't they just declare their own residences occupied? Like maybe by hanging "occupied" signs (or gym socks) on the doorknobs? Or is just it that Berkeley is a territory that is particularly easy to seize right now, on account of every resident capable of defending it currently being across the bay occupying San Francisco?

So until further notice, I am declaring this particular submovement: Occupy San Francisco No BART Pass Sad Emoticon.

*No, really, don't get political here.