Thursday, August 28, 2008

More hippieness

My favorite thing to come out of the tree sitting debacle was this article, written by the semi sarcastic news team at the San Francisco Chronicle.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/26/BA8E11F6S0.DTL

Things that are hilarious about this article:

-the pun on surrendering roots in the first sentence.
-the fact that Squirtle has joined the ranks of arrested tree sitters, along with his friends Millepede, Fresh, and Dumpster Muffin.
-all it took for Squirtle to come down was a cigarette... way to stick to your convictions.
-they demanded a pound of marijuana from the City Council, and then passed it off as a joke.
-"After the report had been delivered, the meeting erupted into chaos and screaming matches when the council voted to adjourn before taking action on the plight of the tree-sitters." -direct quote.
-people have voluntarily been living in trees for 18 months. ****TWENTY ONE MONTHS NOW

1 comment:

Erin said...

This article is hilarious, though poorly written. I feel as though it's kind of all over the place, like some distracted high-schooler with ADHD wrote it in attempts to be funny and impress his friends.