Day 88: New York State of Mind

Although I have not written about it here -- the curse of being too busy to write during the most interesting times -- I recently made two trips to New York. The first was a one-day trip to Lawn Guyland to give a seminar at Stony Brook on my current research project (Auger). The second was a weekend trip with cassiopia and gyades and The Kiddo to visit pomoloco and to see Rent and just bum around the city a bit. That trip was much more interested and it is worth noting that cassiopia and I won the lottery for front row seats to see Wicked: The Musical. Very cool!

Anyway, despite the title, those New York trips are not the main focus of this entry. Instead, I wanted to note an article that appeared in the New York times last week regarding the mass arrests during the RNC. The article can be found here and ( the text is reprinted here. )

I find this article particularly interesting because the "group of twenty" cited within includes me; this is the group that I was arrested with. In fact, I happen to have known the anonymous woman (and her husband) that is the focus of the article for several years before we got arrested together at the RNC. And Rick Best, the lawyer mentioned in the article, is my lawyer for my "malicious prosecution" case against the city of New York... and he is a fellow graduate of Hampshire College. So, yes, this article particularly caught my interest, hence its posting here.

Day 88: New York State of Mind

Although I have not written about it here -- the curse of being too busy to write during the most interesting times -- I recently made two trips to New York. The first was a one-day trip to Lawn Guyland to give a seminar at Stony Brook on my current research project (Auger). The second was a weekend trip with cassiopia and gyades and The Kiddo to visit pomoloco and to see Rent and just bum around the city a bit. That trip was much more interested and it is worth noting that cassiopia and I won the lottery for front row seats to see Wicked: The Musical. Very cool!

Anyway, despite the title, those New York trips are not the main focus of this entry. Instead, I wanted to note an article that appeared in the New York times last week regarding the mass arrests during the RNC. The article can be found here and ( the text is reprinted here. )

I find this article particularly interesting because the "group of twenty" cited within includes me; this is the group that I was arrested with. In fact, I happen to have known the anonymous woman (and her husband) that is the focus of the article for several years before we got arrested together at the RNC. And Rick Best, the lawyer mentioned in the article, is my lawyer for my "malicious prosecution" case against the city of New York... and he is a fellow graduate of Hampshire College. So, yes, this article particularly caught my interest, hence its posting here.