Showing posts with label NO KINGS PROTEST. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NO KINGS PROTEST. Show all posts

Saturday, March 28, 2026

MARC-ALOPOLIS

Check out my review of Sofia Coppola's Marc by Sofia, her documentary portait of her friend, fashion designer Marc Jacobs...

...online at Phoenix Magazine.

This morning The Wife and I betook ourselves to 59th Avenue and Bell Road, to participate in yet another "No Kings" demonstration. Some images:










A really large crowd; pretty great signs. Thumbs-ups and peace signs vastly outnumbered middle fingers and thumbs-downs from passing vehicles. BUT...some brave hero slung a handful of ice at The Wife from a car. Most of it spattered ineffectually off her sign. She shook it off at once with the remark "I'm on the right side." But I said that now she can honestly say she's been targeted by ICE.

Saturday, October 18, 2025

NO KINGS ROW

This morning The Wife and I participated in No Kings II: The Sequel.


A few images:






Our location was 35th Avenue and Bell in Phoenix; hardly a stronghold of rabid liberalism, but the turnout was excellent, running from the northeast corner of 35th to way past the Arby's, and as with the protest we attended in June--though perhaps more so--the response from passing vehicles was overwhelmingly positive. For every passerby who flipped us the bird, or gave us a thumbs-down, or stopped to rev their engine and blast exhaust at us--and there were a few of each--there were ten or twenty supportive horn honks and thumbs-up.

There was, of course, a big white pickup displaying a variety of pro-Trump flags that roared past us several times, would-be menacingly. And another truck pulled up so that the young men inside could shout at us "get a job!" and "you're all ret*rded!" After hearing this, we all realized the error of ways, dropped our signs and went home.

Since I understand that frogs are currently a symbol of the resistance, I drew my Ed Emberly frog--one of the very few things I know how to draw; I'm not as gifted an artist as Our President--on my sign, but there was a much better frog sign:

My favorite sign, however, read "MY 6x GREAT GRANDFATHER WINTERED AT VALLEY FORGE: NO KINGS THEN...NO KINGS NOW." Near this guy sat his Mom, whose sign was identical, except it said "MY 5x GRANDFATHER...".

Keep resisting!