This week, I decided to break the law...in the gentlest way possible.
So begins the tale of the Vigilante Gardener, a young man who staged a daring midnight mission, cleaning up a strip of dirt in Brooklyn and illegally transforming it overnight into a planter filled with herbs, veggies, and flowers. Would the garden survive its midnight makeover? Would the Vigilante Gardener be arrested or pepper sprayed?
Follow me below the orange gnocchi doodle to see what this underground operation yielded.
But first, A Word From our Sponsor:
|
Top Comments recognizes the previous day's Top Mojo and strives to promote each day's outstanding comments through nominations made by Kossacks like you. Please send comments (before 9:30pm ET) by email to topcomments@gmail.com or by our KosMail message board. Just click on the Spinning Top™ to make a submission. Look for the Spinning Top™ to pop up in diaries posts around Daily Kos.
Make sure that you include the direct link to the comment (the URL), which is available by clicking on that comment's date/time. Please let us know your Daily Kos user name if you use email so we can credit you properly. If you send a writeup with the link, we can include that as well. The diarist poster reserves the right to edit all content.
Please come in. You're invited to make yourself at home! Join us beneath the doodle...
|
|
Part I: An Illegal Garden is Planted in a Daring Midnight Crime Spree:
The police never confronted us....frankly, a wise choice on their part.
The Vigilante Gardener plotted to illicitly clean up a neglected space in Brooklyn and grow a garden. Gathering the promises of friends, he planned his assault for weeks...only to have most of his fellow X-Men-like accomplices bug out at the last minute with a variety of lame excuses. He nonetheless played out his superhero fantasy in a daring midnight excursion where he planted vegetables and flowers, met an amiable drunk who promised to help water the garden, and contemplated the results the next day:
To be honest, in the light of day the garden looks...pretty pitiful.
But it's just a beginning.
Part II: Neighbors, A Penitent Thief, and the Gift of the Salsa
Is there such a thing as a bad-ass vegetable garden?
As the garden began to blossom neighbors volunteered to water it and provided tomato cages. Vines rose to cover the rusty barbed wire. A garden thief returned more than he took. The owner of the garden turned out to be the nearby Armenian Catholic church, and the Vigilante Gardener brought them an offering of homemade salsa, only to find that while they had nearly ripped the garden out they had instead become inspired to continue it the following year.
This summer my garden survived an earthquake, a hurricane, and the wrath of GOD.
Top Comments Harvested Right Here!
Thanks to tonight's Top Comments contributors! Let us hear from YOU when you find that not-so-ordinary comment.
TOP COMMENTS
Thanks to tonight's Top Comments contributors! Let us hear from YOU when you find that golden comment. |
|
from JanF:
Glen The Plumber provides the perfect live blog for the Republican presidential primary or The Apprentice ... no one is quite sure.
from grog:
In this morning's Cheers and Jeers, Muphoney jeered the Morans who can't tell the difference between John Bolton and Michael Bolton, and mithra666 replied with:
I don't know; my ears hurt whenever I hear either of them, so in that way, they are similar.
From Dragon5616:
Gooserock wonders why anyone is speechless about wealth inequality in Laura Clawson's front page post Just 6 Walmart heirs have as much wealth as 30% of Americans.
Also from Laura Clawson's post, Tom P sets it up and Words in Action drives it home with this observation about the Walton heirs.
from princesspat:
In Jaxpagan's diary A Year of Moons - The December Moon rfall's comment
I thought this diary was about the 2012 GOP field. Then, I looked closer and saw it was "moons", not "morons". My bad.
was followed by Jaxpagan's witty reply,
That would be "A Year of Loons."
and from your fellow gardener, smileycreek:
In TomP's diary How We Know Occupy Is Winning: Rove's Group Now Attacks Warren As Being Too Cozy With BANKS! karmsy reflects on the normal cognitive changes that accompany aging and concludes that while creativity once made Karl Rove formidable, he has now been to a one-note strategist.
|
|
And Now, a Little Top Mojo!
(excluding Tip Jars and first comments)
Got mik!
TOP MOJO
November 18, 2011
(excluding Tip Jars and first comments)
Got mik! |
|
Color boxes courtesy bronte17 |
Final Note: The search widget for jotter's beautiful PictureQuilts did not work today, and I am not geeky enough to figure out why, and so I shall have to await his return to reinstate this lovely feature.