Gunpowder, treason, and plot

[sabotabby]

© John Bonner.

Happy Bonfire Night, everyone! I really miss throwing parties like the one I threw three years ago. Next year, next year.

Comments

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

A good friend of mine burnt the flag of his school in Columbus, Ohio at 18 (graduation party... though not exactly - he was on home schooling). Spent a few days in a cell with 50 guys trying to have him up his rear. Released on bail. Luckily, never went on trial. Could get up to 3 years, I think.

[sabotabby]

See, it's just not worth it. You need to buy your own flag. brownfist and I have a theory that most American flags sold in countries other than America are bought for the purpose of setting on fire.

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

You had fun in high school, what would you understand?

[sabotabby]

I totally would have burned the flag at my high school, though, given opportunity and lighter fluid.

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

If I had the opportunity, I'd bomb my high school. Some opportunities in life are just to be created.

[marrythebed.livejournal.com]

This Bonner guy is amazing! And cheers to throwing more flag-burning partays.

[sabotabby]

You should check out the whole gallery. Two of the most recent ones (the Day of Action and the Mapuche demo) have a few unflattering pictures of me. ;)

I should just throw a party, period. I was going to throw a pity party but it never materialized.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

We can still throw the sad panda pity party. Now with extra chocolate! And angst! And hot fudge.

But I don't think we should light anything on fire on the roof. It's made of tarpaper. Things could go very Wrong. This might upset the cats.

[sabotabby]

Sad panda pity party, or Nazi waffle party? Or are the two not mutually exclusive?

We'll have to find somewhere else to burn things. We have a year, so that should be okay.

[marrythebed.livejournal.com]

Nazi waffle!? Panda pity!? I wish I was in Toronto! At the very least I have plenty of self-pity to contribute! ;)

The gallery is amazing. I'm blown away.

And you're cute at every angle, ginger-hair.

[sabotabby]

You should come up for a visit. We throw some good events when we have our shit together (and when we don't, we still cook really well).

The sad panda pity party is probably self-explanatory, but the Nazi-waffle thing deserves elaboration so that people don't think I'm a self-hating Jew. Basically, we were looking at Victorian photos last night and stumbled upon some sort of ancient waffle-making apparatus that looked like it would make waffle ridges that were vaguely swastika-shaped. Hence, Nazi waffles for Jews and honourary members of the Tribe. We only have an ordinary waffle-iron, though, so we'd have to just draw the swastikas with chocolate sauce or something.

P.S. Thanks. I was severely hungover the day of one of the demos, and my hair was doing something immensely weird. Oh well.

[marrythebed.livejournal.com]

I figured the waffles had something to do with their ridges, since they're the right pattern - didn't know those damn nazis were victorian, tho!

And I'd love to come up there, but before I can even think about it you need to work on lowering y'all's dollar, man. Get on it!

[sabotabby]

Doing my best to disrupt the economy, but it's hard to do when you don't have any money.

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

That photograph is absolutely classic. I'm saving a copy. Do you mind?

Great shot.

[sabotabby]

It's not my photo, but I'm sure it's cool. You can also order prints from the site that I linked to.

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

what's bonfire night?

[sabotabby]

It's a fun British holiday where you get to light things on fire in honour of Guy Fawkes, the Catholic guy who failed at blowing up the Houses of Parliament. It's actually morbid in that it's celebrating a dude being executed, but you can always twist it around and burn an effigy of Bush like we did.

[poncif.livejournal.com]

(icon love)

[sabotabby]

I'm fond of it.

[retinal-strain.livejournal.com]

I think the guy chatting on his cell phone says a lot about the tone of that demonstration.

[sabotabby]

That's every demonstration.

I mean, I'm not much better. I use demos to catch up on gossip and then go drink beer. But I wouldn't if demos didn't suck so hard.

[retinal-strain.livejournal.com]

hmmm, I seem to remember you shouting "REVOLUTION! NOW!" at said demonstration.
Though, I was making a comment on the tone of the demonstration, not the (understandable) reaction of the demonstrators. I still say that demos would be better if we drank at the pub before instead of afterward.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I did manage to realize it was Guy Fawkes day before I was coherent about anything else today. Disappointingly, no-one around here is setting off fireworks.

I do wonder if Guy Fawkes was retroactively inducted into the Marinus van der Lubbe International Firebombing Society.

I suspect I'm a bad American.

[sabotabby]

Hey, doesn't being a bad American make you a good global citizen?

Anyway, no one did anything here either. That makes me a sad kitten.