Patchouli has never been attractive. Never.

Just because you can’t wear that fur, ladies (and fashionable gents), doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice style for substance at the picket line. Sayeth the Times Online:

Ever since the sans culottes inadvertently launched a fashion movement of sorts (they had some help from Rousseau, whose treatises on nature and the desirability of muslin helped to crystallise the hot looks for autumn 1792), the pressure has been on revolutionaries to look at least a bit hip while they’re smashing the barricades – as student protesters proved this week when brandishing high street chic and banners in the face of the BNP at the Oxford Union.

Honestly, anyone who can refer to culottes and Rosseuau is worthy of my respect. Anyway. The piece is in obvious reference to the Writers Guild of America strike and the glitterati who manage to make both the issues and their clothes fashionably in. The article goes on to make the somewhat brilliant point that aesthetics have always played a part in fighting the Man:

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AU students sing koombayah

Joel Gardner, the infamous, notorious Karl Rove mooner who spent 8 hours in a DC jail on Monday has given an interview to MTV news. (We think. For some reason, it’s on the VH1 website. Guess they’re really the same, anyway. Oh, and did we mention that we broke this story?)

Here go some excerpts:

“I got a crazy call from the dean of students telling me they got a bunch of these warrants,” Gardner said. “She was really nice and said I should be careful about traveling out of state, because if I even got a moving violation I could’ve been taken in. She also told me to be careful where I sleep, which is funny because I’ve been sleeping on couches all over D.C.”

And:

“The moon is a terrific form of tomfoolery that is completely forgotten these days,” Gardner said. The act of mooning dates at least back to 1346, during the Battle of Crécy in France, when several hundred French soldiers allegedly exposed their derrieres to British archers.

“You can moon your friends and it can be totally funny, or it can be really sincere, like when you moon Karl Rove,” Gardner added. “There is little response someone can give after that.”

Well, so, that’s that. We also learned something important about journalism from this whole experience. When your friends are arrested for something funny, run their names on your blog even if they ask you not too; otherwise, you’ll end up getting scooped by fucking VH1. And you can take that to the bank.

Source:
Man Who Mooned Karl Rove Speaks: ‘It Was A Very Intimate Moment’ MTV/VH1

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The Notorious District Six turned themselves in at 5 am this morning. After a series of bureaucratic fuck ups at MPD headquarters that caused them to be held for 8 hours, each posted $100 bond and was released.

“I hope that counts for our fine,” Joel Gardner, the imfamous Karl Rove mooner said, referring to the outcome of his plea agreement in the face of a disorderly conduct charge. “We might have to pay another $100, plus like $500 each for the lawyer.”

Because this media-savvy bunch turned themselves in on a national holiday, we can’t get ahold of their mugshots until tomorrow. Thanks, dicks.

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Assgate Heats Up
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Notorious District Six to turn themselves in on Monday