House of Blair
This morning, I noticed one of the resident's of Connaught Square who lives directly opposite 29, had placed two huge Jack O'Lanterns on their porch. The giant orange guardians, all crazed teeth and demon slant eyes, looked curiously out of place on the black and white chequered tiles of the grandiose porch. However, if I lived across from the accused House of Blair, I do not think I would restrict employing the use of vegetable watchmen to ward off the threat of evil emanating from the place to just Halloween.
The Blair Family – far more monstrous than the Munsters or Addams could ever aspire to be – rely on Heckler & Koch for protection. Unfortunately for them, this did little to help defend them from an attack by a rather noisy spirit. At lunchtime, former world boxing champion and renowned eccentric decided to pay his respects to the House Blair. This involved him driving his huge truck adorned with anti-war slogans outside Number 29 and blasting his horn.
One noticeable difference between Mr. Eubank's protest and the more typical bit of direct action – aside from the use of a gigantic truck – is that I have never before seen a protestor glad-hand passers-bys while wearing a Versace suit and a massive diamond earring. Still, if you are going to look down the barrels of two machineguns while protesting, you might as well look your best.
While some may label Chris Eubank as nothing more than showman, a fop, fool or mix of all three, to me he is becoming something of a hero. With humour, style and flair, he continues to protest not only against military occupation of Iraq, but in favour of the right to dissent in public. He is not Mark Thomas, but he is clearly on the side of us who want to live in an England where democratic freedom is not a hollow phrase
The Blair Family – far more monstrous than the Munsters or Addams could ever aspire to be – rely on Heckler & Koch for protection. Unfortunately for them, this did little to help defend them from an attack by a rather noisy spirit. At lunchtime, former world boxing champion and renowned eccentric decided to pay his respects to the House Blair. This involved him driving his huge truck adorned with anti-war slogans outside Number 29 and blasting his horn.
One noticeable difference between Mr. Eubank's protest and the more typical bit of direct action – aside from the use of a gigantic truck – is that I have never before seen a protestor glad-hand passers-bys while wearing a Versace suit and a massive diamond earring. Still, if you are going to look down the barrels of two machineguns while protesting, you might as well look your best.
While some may label Chris Eubank as nothing more than showman, a fop, fool or mix of all three, to me he is becoming something of a hero. With humour, style and flair, he continues to protest not only against military occupation of Iraq, but in favour of the right to dissent in public. He is not Mark Thomas, but he is clearly on the side of us who want to live in an England where democratic freedom is not a hollow phrase
Labels: Chris Eubank, Connaught Square, Mark Thomas, Tony Blair
posted by David at 2:56 PM
5 Comments:
Good for him. It sometimes only takes one person with an idea to get more and more to follow. Not sure what good it will do, though.
"Still, if you are going to look down the barrels of two machineguns while protesting, you might as well look your best."
David, you are amusing me, and that isn't an easy thing to do lately. :)
ah ah! Very funny post. I saw a picture of Eubank and his truck in a magazine, and he looked so tiny behind the wheel. How can his feet even reach the brakes I wonder... One day or the other the feet won't reach and he will end up on Blair's lap.
Now that's funny but not. We had the Don't Taz me Bro incident here not long ago. We all need to live in a place where democratic freedom is not a hollow phrase.
That's great!! That little bit of news didn't make it this far yet, so that was nice to read.
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