Saturday Night's Alright for Peacing

Last night, hundreds of people came out for the Lights Fantastic parade featuring lots of lighted floats and afterwards many went to the Preemptive Peace Strike benefit for the Carbondale Peace Coalition at Gallery HQ on Main St. In the crowd were most of the luminaries of the Carbondale peace movement, including Hugh Muldoon, who delivered a stirring speech for peace, and Poola Bradshaw, who stirred the punch, and Enemen, who slurred his speech. The band formerly known as "Sufis from Hell" led by (the brightest light in the room they say), Dean Murshid, played a couple sets and Mike Covell showed his documentary of a peace march held here in Carbondale. I snapped a few photos due to poor lighting, some young dude with a flash on his sister's camera said he'd send me some pix to post, a friend of Adam Paull's who will probably read this and pass them on. I suggested to Mike Covell that he make a shortened version of the film using the Buffalo Springfield song For What It's Worth, which he said he'd do. Dancers got their groove on to Knockin on Heaven's Door and Going Back to Egypt by TBFKA'SFH'. (I'll get the correct name and change it, although I rather like "TBFKA'SFH'.)

Discovered that my camera and the photos in it were left behind at Gallery HQ for reasons I won't go into here, and when I checked back this morning the cleanup crew hadn't seen it, although they said they raised a lot of money for the cause of peace. Maybe the camera will be returned and the U.S. will stay the hell out of Iraq. We can hope.