topical!!!

john and i were just ctm-ing about this account of what happened when rage against the machine's tom morello showed up at zucchini park yesterday to perform, while the protestors were scrambling to clean up the park and avoid being forcibly evicted this morning:

The cleanup efforts were temporarily derailed on Thursday by the appearance of Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello. Some facilitators were not pleased. As he sung his first song, the leader in the red hat yelled out, "Tom Morello, stop singing and come help us clean." Another: "Tom, I love you, but come on!" A third, older occupier was blunter: "I'm more of a Grateful Dead guy." (via) 

ctm. anyway, then i stumbled onto this music video for their song "sleep now in the fire", recorded in 2000. looks like they're occupying wall street...

in related news, wtf is bloomberg talking about?

Bloomberg, meanwhile, attempted to explain the change of course on his radio show this morning. "Yesterday, as of 8 o’clock at night, they were going ahead to do it, but, as of midnight, they called and said they wanted to postpone the cleaning operations," he said. The mayor went on to blame members of local government for pressuring the park's owners: "My understanding is Brookfield got lots of calls from many elected officials, threatening them and saying if you don't stop this we'll make your life more difficult," he said. "If those elected officials had spent half as much time trying to promote the city to get jobs to come here we would a lot more ways towards answering the concerns of the protesters.

"There has to be some resolution eventually," he added. (via)

that doesn't make a lick of sense.