I just finished reading John Albert's Wrecking Crew: The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates. It has everything - baseball, punk rock and heavy metal, amusing stories about junkies. The book is similar to The Bad News Bears, except, of course, without Walter Matthau.
Last night was the Torchlight Parade through downtown Seattle. There were pirates, Sikhs and Koreans doing martial arts, motorcycle cops, bicycle cops, runners, drill teams, pirates, a Chinese dragon, clowns, a great float from the Tulalip casino, pirates, and more. Here's the Seattle Public Schools All-City Marching Band:
The pirates had their own boat and it had sirens and a really loud cannon. The explosions reminded me alot of when the Seattle police were throwing concussion grenades at demonstrators during the WTO protests in 1999.
This pirate may or may not escape from the clutches of the police...
"Hockey ought to be sternly forbidden, as it is not only annoying but dangerous." Halifax Morning Sun, quoted in Michael McKinley's Hockey - A People's History
