watchamacallit ([info]watchamacallit) wrote in [info]b0st0n,
@ 2007-02-01 15:39:00
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That's not a hair question

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[info]mursinary
2007-02-01 08:44 pm UTC (link)
Amazing.

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[info]ifotismeni
2007-02-01 08:56 pm UTC (link)
hahahahah oh goodness.

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[info]fire_faery
2007-02-01 08:59 pm UTC (link)
LMAO Wow!

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[info]gemini6ice
2007-02-01 09:01 pm UTC (link)
They are heroes. Absolute heroes.

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[info]birdboy2000
2007-02-01 09:36 pm UTC (link)
Agreed.

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[info]jenlight
2007-02-02 05:07 am UTC (link)
My thoughts exactly.

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[info]bikini_killl
2007-02-01 09:02 pm UTC (link)
I find this depressing

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[info]gemini6ice
2007-02-01 09:09 pm UTC (link)
How tightly the reporters have their pantyhose in a twist?

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[info]littlestarletta
2007-02-01 09:09 pm UTC (link)
why?

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[info]bikini_killl
2007-02-01 10:16 pm UTC (link)
Rather than repeat what [info]suburbanlegend said, if you read his/her comment below mine, that is exactly why I find it sad.

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[info]ruxxell
2007-02-01 09:31 pm UTC (link)
for someone with the lj name bikini_killl, you'd think this would be right up your alley.

what would kathleen hanna do?

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[info]bikini_killl
2007-02-01 10:18 pm UTC (link)
nope...it's not.
Kathleen Hanna would just punch someone and end up in jail though, to answer your question

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[info]enfa
2007-02-01 09:12 pm UTC (link)
you can hear them a little better here: http://wbztv.com/video/?cid=9&id=28369@wbz.dayport.com

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[info]smileytypepers
2007-02-01 09:12 pm UTC (link)
Ehehehe...I'm glad they can laugh at a truly ridiculous situation. :D

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[info]wickedrad2
2007-02-01 09:24 pm UTC (link)
It may be ridiculous, but they are still being charged with crimes, and prison time is not a laughing matter. I really can't believe their lawyer didn't just say they weren't accepting questions.

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[info]smileytypepers
2007-02-01 09:45 pm UTC (link)
In the video of the press conference on You Tube the lawyer did mention they were told not to talk about it. (Near the end.)I see your pint though.

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[info]suburbanlegend
2007-02-01 09:58 pm UTC (link)
Agreed.

Personally, I don't find them local hipster heroes, I find them juvenile.

The city of Boston already looks moronic for overreacting to an ad campaign and stirring up an unnecessary media firestorm. Now the "perpetrators" treat the situation with a total lack of respect and make us look like bigger loonies. Even if the situation itself (a cartoon ad mistaken for a bomb) was unintentionally hysterical, they actually had a serious opportunity to comment on alarmism and the sad, degenerative state of our country in "POST 9/11 WE MUST FEAR SHAMPOO AND BABY FORMULA ON INTERCONTINENTAL FLIGHTS" hysteria.

Instead, they'd rather give ammo to people who think Bostonians are just fashionable, fight-the-establishment-cause-it's-the-establishment liberals... instead of occasionally intelligent, thoughtful ones.

Ugh. Sorry, if they were witty maybe it wouldn't bother me. But I think there's a difference between witty, sarcastic commentary and being the juvenile class clown.

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[info]bikini_killl
2007-02-01 10:17 pm UTC (link)
IAWTC

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[info]iscari0t
2007-02-02 04:10 am UTC (link)
One of them is a friend of mine, but I'm gonna have to agree with you here. They should have played it cooler instead of being COMPLETELY HILARIOUS. Like, kudos for that, but like, stfu and play the game for once. =(

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[info]phatmike
2007-02-02 04:51 am UTC (link)
i agree here, but i also feel they're in a tough place. using this as a chance to comment on such a state borders on them actually talking about the case. since they were advised to not comment on the case, it wouldnt be easy to take such a stand, so they took the easy way out.

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stephen malkmus attacks boston with dirty hippy sidekick.
[info]mtpleasantisnt
2007-02-01 09:13 pm UTC (link)


equals



i think so.

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i'm just a boy with a new haircut
[info]ruxxell
2007-02-01 09:33 pm UTC (link)
darling dont you go and CUT YOUR HAIR
do you think its gonna make him change?!

..AND THATS A PRETTY NICE HAIRCUT

way to bring it full circle with that malkmus ref.

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Re: i'm just a boy with a new haircut
[info]mtpleasantisnt
2007-02-01 09:38 pm UTC (link)
i do what i can

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Re: i'm just a boy with a new haircut
[info]horizon_radar
2007-02-01 09:46 pm UTC (link)
Pavement references = +1,000,000 points for both of you.

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Re: i'm just a boy with a new haircut
[info]bikini_killl
2007-02-01 10:19 pm UTC (link)
<3 Pavement <3

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Re: stephen malkmus attacks boston with dirty hippy sidekick.
[info]phatmike
2007-02-02 04:51 am UTC (link)
oh hey, thanks for the reminder - i'll play that tommorow

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[info]littlestarletta
2007-02-01 09:16 pm UTC (link)
good article here: http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO41843/

Apparently he did say something "real":

But as he walked off, Berdovsky gave a more serious comment.

"We need some time to really sort things out and, you know, figure out our response to this situation in other ways than talking about hair," Berdovsky said. "So if you could just give us some privacy for a little bit. ... I will be trying to make sense of all it real soon."

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[info]fly_nimue_fly
2007-02-01 09:30 pm UTC (link)
"hair today gone tomorrow"

HA!!!!

i <3 these guys!

i wish they'd stop calling it a hoax device....

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[info]creemynougat
2007-02-01 09:36 pm UTC (link)
I said that to like every freaking reporter. I haven't seen it quoted ANYWHERE. Grr.

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[info]fly_nimue_fly
2007-02-01 09:40 pm UTC (link)
yeah dude...it was LIGHT BRIGHTS....such bullshit...and shame on the media for playing into the terror hype...do they need stories that badly?

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[info]cottonmanifesto
2007-02-01 09:36 pm UTC (link)
LOVE this so very much. :D

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[info]anomie666
2007-02-01 09:58 pm UTC (link)
Flame away, but I watch that and think what fucking assholes.

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[info]suburbanlegend
2007-02-01 10:02 pm UTC (link)
Then they can flame me right there with you. Totally juvenile and a wasted opportunity for real commentary. In my book they went from "unfairly persecuted" to "totally fucking obnoxious" in lightning speed.

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[info]kingnixon
2007-02-02 12:27 am UTC (link)
they're not obligated to be witty urbane enlightening public speakers. they got arrested for a ridiculous reason, are probably (or i would be, at least) furious, and just dismissing the whole thing as nonsense. maybe next time jon stewart will get arrested and you won't have to suffer such disappointment

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[info]suburbanlegend
2007-02-02 02:17 pm UTC (link)
They should, however, have some sense of obligation to not contribute to the perception of Bostonians as fricking morons who don't know cartoons from bombs and a press conference from a direct-to-video version of "Half Baked."

Regardless, for their own sake, showing class and dignity in the face of unfair persecution usually engenders more sympathy than "nyah nyah nyah you stuffy lame-o journalists!"

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[info]kingnixon
2007-02-02 03:01 pm UTC (link)
they've been arrested by boston for hanging up lite-brites; i don't see why they would have any interest at all in making boston look good.

and you are quite right, this probably cost them a lot of sympathy. but one hopes the jury is not swayed by sympathy so much as by -- near as i can tell -- the fact that the only law they broke was trespassing, when they hung those things up. clearly they don't have much interest in the sympathy of random people watching the news.

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[info]wickedrad2
2007-02-02 03:17 pm UTC (link)
The reasoning behind the arrest might have been ridiculous, but they were still arrested!! You wouldn't openly be rude to a judge, would you? Only an idiot would, because that would not put you in his good favor. If these guys want to be let off of this ridiculous charge, maybe they should show some respect and keep their mouths shut!

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[info]doxamully
2007-02-02 08:47 pm UTC (link)
In all fairness, this was them talking to the media, not a judge.

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[info]bikini_killl
2007-02-01 10:21 pm UTC (link)
i agree.
call me uptight, but that was the perfect situation to be witty and they were just obnoxious.

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[info]hirsch222
2007-02-01 10:35 pm UTC (link)
That's what I was thinking... about the reporters.

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[info]anomie666
2007-02-02 12:05 am UTC (link)
yes...they actually took things seriously and were doing their job...what assholes.

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[info]ohwownerd
2007-02-01 11:34 pm UTC (link)
DO NOT TALK ABOUT HAIR IN A POST 9/11 WORLD, ASSHOLE.

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[info]ohwownerd
2007-02-01 11:35 pm UTC (link)
How can you not take this seriously when there was
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How can you not take this seriously when there was <font=a million> WIDESPREAD PANIC!!!!!!!!

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[info]agharta75
2007-02-02 12:36 pm UTC (link)
Channel 25 is saying this morning that the "hair" talk was a promo for yet another Cartoon Network show.

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