New Friends, New Energy... eeff, courtesy of tool. Landscaping By New York City...
For the Climate March. I fell in with some Kossacks. Marching these days comes a bit more naturally to me than it had; I do Civil War Re-enacting. 22nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, out of the South Shore of MA.
I walked with eeff, an ebullient, wise and good natured emigre to North Carolina. The kind of guy it would be fun to have a beer with, if I was able to drink beer without ending up in places I couldn't remember how I got to.
Because of the sheer volume of people, the March stopped, for ten, twenty minutes several times during the afternoon. One such stop was in front of Fox News Headquarters, at Bullshit Central, Avenue of the Americas. There was a general grumbling in the crowd, which took up the chant "Hey Hey, Ho, Ho, Fossil Fuels Have Got to Go", on of the many chants of the day.
Except my hearing isn't what it used to be. I turned to eeff, and asked, 'are they saying 'Fox News Has To Go?', half as a joke between the two of us.
eeff got this wonderful, reckless look in his eyes. He laughed, and in that moment, when the crowd noise died down, he bellowed:
"Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Fox News Has Got To GO!"
Which the crowd took up immediately, eeff being a loud and persuasive guy.
They took it up boisterously. Rambunctiously. Incessantly. Joyously. Resoundingly. We turned and faced the Fox Studios building, an entire street block filled with people so deliriously activated that through sheer volume and force of focus, I swear I could see the windows of the building darken.
"Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Fox News Has Got To GO!"
So Fox News, you embroiderers of darkness, you tellers of the story as you want it, not as it is- you major corporation that chose to ignore 400,000 people outside of your own windows the same way you ignore 400 years of science...
Time to go. Time to just f'ing pack your bags, and slink out of town on the sewer trolly that you rode in on.
I know, because eeff, and about 2,500 hundred of his buddies told me so.
I'm with eeff on this one.