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Puke for Peace

"Positive Measures to Achieve Peace" is this year's theme for Peace Day Seattle, to be held at the Center House at the Seattle Center on Saturday, October 5 from 1:00-4:00pm.

Sounds really good, right? Bet you didn't know Seattle compaigns for peace by setting up four booths and a stage in the food court. Were there posters, petitions or protests to the impending war? Nope. However, and just as educational, was an old woman standing on the stage with two "thugged out" black teenaged boys (and why not beat a painfully apparent stereotype into our consciousnesses in the guise of "racial harmony with the contemporary Noble Savage") pondering the age-old philosophical question, "What do you do when someone cuts you off in traffic?" To which thug #1 said, "I just smile and let him in! Smiles disarm all the fear and tension in the world!"

Riiiggght. And this is the best the city could come up with to combat the epidemic of hate, bigotry, and warmongering in the world.

To take the edge off that powerhouse of a message, an inspiring round of acoustic "This Little Light of Mine" was sung by a frumpy old man in khaki cords followed by a cackle of Grannies Getting Off Their Fannies doing the a cappella ditty, "No More War!" while can-canning.

The day's fill off comedic genius had, we thought to scour our minds clean with an IMAX. Where upon a repulsively overperfumed woman in full Louis Vuitton regalia daintily bumped my child out of the life-sized chess board by shooing him with her hideous, conspicuously consumed brown-LV-to-the-heel pump.

May I just ask, what in the blazing blue billygoats is the attraction to Louis Vuitton? Is this not the most unattractive and K-Mart-esque designer fashion ever created? Ugh. Rain Man had better fashion sense than this. How nauseatingly self-aggrandizing.

Puke, I tell you. P-U-K-E.

But the bug sandwich display in the Insect House thankfully remedied all the wrongs the day presented. You can't get more minimalist than eating grubs and rice. (Which we didn't eat, just in case you were wondering. The display was all behind glass to prevent us, should we have had the urge.)

10:46 pm - 10.05.02
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