Gee..20.
Am I blogging?
Ya……ya I think so…I wikipedia’ed it. They say that’s what I’m doing.
“Why are you doing this mayo/skin? “
The G20 took place in my current city; Toronto. It just ended actually, not even a few hours ago. So I’m thinking about the G20 and reading this media coverage and the random blogs and photoblogs and the like. I came to the realization that people DO express themselves on the interweb and people like me, asshole or not, DO read them. And it’s not always ‘lame’ .
“But you’re not any good…”
“Do you even have anything interesting to say besides what you just ate and then
s**t out?”
“ What are you gonna do, report on your feelings?”
Babies, I KNOW. I can be legit because I have a schtik. Now to connect the G20 with my schtick.
The Mexican border is protected by a hefty little gang of cartels ready to literally kill you. Not only that, Toronto, but they don’t just use fake tear gas and rubber bullets; things ACTUALLY HAPPEN.
In Iraq they have a curfew of approx. 9pm. No one can leave their abode and therefore families spend their evenings smoking cheap Marlboros, downing Turkish coffee shots (it tastes like liquified cement), and watching bombs fall. BOMBS. FALL.
In Sudan…
In Haiti…
For f***’s sake in Detroit…
It’s a shame that the G20 protests were so bad, really it is. Truth be told they could’ve been a lot worse. Truth be told, also, media coverage is stupid and everything is always over-exaggerated. It IS tv, after all. It DOES have competition from the relentless amount of reality television that viewers can watch instead. And they do need the ratings. The aggressive rioters made the entertainment and the media was there to eat it up and use it. The cops? Oh my…well they were just a bunch of dad’s and boy-men who get paid OT to ‘serve and protect’.
A vicious cycle of looters doing the exact opposite of what they intended and causing for more supervision, more little boys in cop uniforms acting like big men, more random stores being broken into, and more people FREAKING THE HELL OUT.
Peaceful protesters: Rock on and live on and kudos to you and yours. I believe in your heartfelt concern for the world (although I prefer not to wear my bandana and paint clever puns on old bedspreads to run around the street with).
A snippet from the news just now on the old cbc:
“Four other people were arrested in the early morning after they were caught coming out of a city sewer in the financial district on Queen Street West between Yonge and Bay streets.”
Ninja turtles. Obv.
A reporter who clearly has no experience in live coverage asked a protestor to tell her more about these ‘black protestors’ in reference to the black bloc.
Amazing.
The best chant I heard went like this:
Select few leaders of the pack: “A million dollars…”
The sheep: “WASTED! WASTED!”
Oh hum.
