This week-end, Montreal will be invaded by ghouls, zombies, pimps and whores, and every other character, monster, freak or anything in between.
I love Halloween because it’s a week-end for grown-ups to behave like kids again: you’re allowed to dress-up, act like a fool, pretend to be a firefighter, or policeman or construction guy, just as you did when you were a kid. no one will judge you, if anything the more extreme you go with your “pretending” the more impressed your friends will be at your costume. The stars of the Halloween week-end are the weirdoes, and I love that.
So enjoy these 2 cold days of the end of October, eat pumpkin pie like crazy and don’t be shy to go all-out with your costume.
Today is the day the Occupy Montreal event got started. Montreal ain’t New York: there is much less people here, much less of Wall Street and mostly the weather is shittier. So all this begs the question of how long the occupiers will last in cold nights and rainy days.
Regardless of how long it will last, the impressive thing is that the event managed to get started. We were there today, and saw people distributing free food, people singing and dancing, and people meeting and taking. Even more impressive for a protest, there was an area for kids, like a little protest kindergarten.
The other really big question is if Montreal’s authority and the police will let the protesters stay overnight, which the police has already threatened not to do. Tonight, at midnight, when the curfew for all of Montreal’s parks kicks in (why the hell do we even have a curfew for the parks, what is this?) we’ll see if Montreal’s authorities will behave like normal human beings and let the protesters stay. The reality is that they aren’t bothering anyone. If we don’t let the protesters stay overnight, this will mean that Montreal is a much less progressive place than New York, which has tolerated the occupy movement for quite some time now.
Talking about New York, this is the kind of policewoman that look over the protesters there:
