Live from DNC: Zombie at a Giant Puppet Parade!
In a nod to Americana, they had a gigantic Declaration of Independence.
Members of the public had been invited to sign it with messages of their own.
Finally the parade began for real. The Backbone Campaign’s logo is a human spine on an American flag, meant to “embolden citizens and elected officials to stand up for progressive values.”
Ah, the chain gang of war criminals: Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, George Bush, and Donald Rumsfeld. Progressive values!
Señor Coffee Cup is a real enigma. Is he supposed to be a migrant farm worker? And is the one defining attribute of farm workers that they carry around giant coffee cups?
Bees! The people carrying them were chanting, “Keep the bees alive! Keep the bees alive!”
Here’s — um…Donna Shalala (???) — promoting nationalized healthcare.
Sometimes it seemed the sign-carriers went out of their way to wear the most inappropriate clothing. Here, for example, is a man with Soviet Union shirt who was part of a group carrying signs that demanded “Universal Human Rights” and “Dismantle Empire.” Excuse me, sir: Are you trying to look like a fool?
And then there was the woman who showed her support for “Separation of Church and State” by wearing a kaffiyeh.
Take a moment to soak in the whole scene.
My favorite puppet without any doubt was the polar bear, because the people inside actually somehow managed to make it walk like a bear.
Amy!
Winona!
Rosa/Harriet!
Sadako!
Watch out — here comes the national bullet train. Coast to coast at high speeds! The most environmental idea ever.
One way to pass the time at the parade was to play “Identify That Giant Head.” This one had me stumped. Edwin Meese?
Awwww: Finally — something cute!
Mother Vegetable was a crowd favorite.
For once, the song is actually true: He really does have the whole world in his hands.
And a droopy Lady Liberty towered over them all. Sort of.
TO: Zombie
RE: Alex Jones vs. the Giant Squash-Head Claw Hands
I can hear him screaming now, “Don’t TOUCH me!”
And he’d be right, too.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Our two weapons are ugliness and fear.
No! Our three weapons are ugliness, fear and claw hands.
Wait! Our four weapons are..... -- It's a Monty Python Moment in Denver]
What? No furries?
Hey, did you notice that most of these “progressive” people are kinda fat? Maybe there a tie between obesity and stupidity…
“Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
~ Dean Wormer, Faber College
TO: negentropy
RE: Furies
They’re the ones carrying the figures.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Hell hath no fury...they're all in Denver. -- The Tempest (paraphrased)]
So the point of this march is that we need bullet trains for Mother Vegetable so she can get an abortion on demand with her universal health care card while listening to Amy Goodman on public radio about war crimes by the por-nuclear arms Bush Administration?
Sounds like a concise, well-thought out agenda. No wonder these guys aren’t in charge.
P.S. — It’s only a matter of time before the PC Left criminalizes the term “bullet train” (too war like) and they start referring to Amy Goodperson.
They dress up like vegetables, and then wonder why people call them fruits and nuts…
Shouldn’t it be Amy Goodmyn?
FYI–that’s the preamble to the Constitution, not the Declaration of Independence.
Damn! That all sure changed my awareness! I think I’m having a flashback to ’76 when I was tripping on shrooms while listening to “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
Say, what happened to Rigoberta Manchu. She could have represented “Narrative”, as in: the propaganda narrative matters more than what actually happened, which should basically be ignored.
Thank you, puppet people! My consciousness has been raised and I have experienced total political awareness. You were right, I was wrong. All I needed was a giant vegetable woman to show me the error of my ways. Thank you…
The sexism of the symbols is interesting. All the “good” qualities are represented by women, and all the “evil” people are men (with the exception of Condi Rice).
The unknown giant head is me.
Do left-wing radio hosts have actual left-wing radio shows outside of NY and LA?
Does “Procession to the Future” mean we’ll be lead by puppets filled with hat air and people with big heads? Never mind the future is now.
Just something I noticed, but what is labeled here as the Declaration of Independence is actually the Preamble to the US Constitution.
Lady Liberty isn’t droopy, that’s a Compassionate Head Tilt(tm).
“puppets filled with hat air and people with big heads?”
hot air – oops
The guy with the “abortion on demand t-shirt” makes a strong case in favor of abortion:)
Dammit to hell! If we’ve lost the Giant Puppets, we’ve lost the whole game! Who can oppose the authority of the Giant Puppets? Who? If the Giant Puppets say it, then it is irrefutable. Who dares thwart the will of the Puppets? Not me, brother. I surrender. Game over. The puppets win.
Unless we let loose the Giant Robots.
Zombie….are they going to take their clothes off and show infalatble scrotums, like in SF?
Now THAT will show ‘em!
Senor Coffee Cup scared the crap out of me…because I couldn’t figure out why they made a Barack Obama puppet and then dressed it up like a giant scarecrow. I don’t think the theme was supposed to be “If I only had a brain…”
So, that giant piece of Americana…Not the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration starts out like this…”When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
That Piece of Americana…The Preamble to the Constitution. “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
As much as I dislike Zombie’s right-wing, reactionary politics, I have to admit that I got more than a few chuckles out of these pictures and captions. I love Amy Goodman, but making a puppet depicting her? Hilarious.
Go anarchists, beat state!
Love puppets too!
Black bloc veteran
For the guy wearing a T-shirt that says “Abortion on demand without apologies”: I demand his abortion, right now, without apologies!
Zhombre,
yuo have a sterling prolife outlook!
Your confusion between the Declaration of Independence and the preamble of the Constitution underscores one incontrovertible fact: you somehow made it out of high school without much of an understanding of what has made this country great, which has enabled you to support the Republicans, the most threatening group of failures to blight our country in living memory.
I bet you the bald fellow is philosopher Ken Wilber.
ZHombre, at least wait until the dude gives birth. Just check out that belly — he’s obviously been punished with a baby, and he’s not happy about it.
this is quite a laughable ensemble, yet, in all their collective misanthropy they are mere poseurs who shall never inspire so vast a volume of repulsion and ridicule with the befuddled nonchalance of ann coulter
wait a minute….where are the “Che’s”? Zombie, why are there no photos of “Che”? Is this another neo-con conspiracy?! I want my Che’s” !!!!
Makhno said “As much as I dislike Zombie’s right-wing, reactionary politics”
right wing? you’ve got to be kidding! she called for a purge of right wingers from the republican party on another blog.
So, are Murdoch and Turner allowed to have any scrutiny whatsoever, and if so, what percentage of their time are they NOT the left and right hands of the American media stranglehold?
Can anyone put me in touch with the polar bear puppet people? I’m organizing an earth day event about global warming, and I need that puppet!