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Photos: Rally to Restore Sanity
We saw American in action—for an hour, at least
Professor Chaos was already taken (Photo: Nadia Chaudhury)
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Like Coachella and the Village Voice Halloween Parade, the idea of going to the Rally to Restore Sanity was a lot more fun than the rally itself. Sure, it’s cool to be in Washington D.C. for this generation’s Woodstock, as some have called it, but…well, it would have been nice to have been there for more than a hour.
As a blogger, I’m poor. Shocking, I know. That’s why I, along with a few other friends, decided to take one of the free Huffington Post buses from Citi Field (go Mets!) to RFK Stadium in D.C. We woke up at 3 a.m., arrived at 5 a.m., expecting the buses to leave around 5:30-6 a.m., which is when we were told they would..but our bus didn’t leave Citi until 8 a.m. What happened in those three hours? Well, nothing. We waited around for awhile, saw Arianna Huffington and waited around some more. By the time we got on the bus, we were running two hours late, and even the prospect of Greek yogurt (which was on the bus, without spoons, for some reason) was no cure for our nervous and already defeated bodies and minds. We were on literally the last bus to leave Citi Field.
And we didn’t get to our destination until 1:30 p.m., 90 minutes before the event was supposed to end. The Metro was still too crowded to bother taking, so we walked the approximately two miles to where the rally was taking place. As expected, it was a mob scene. A very calm mob scene (surprisingly, no one was there to cause trouble), but a mob scene nonetheless (there were approximately 210,000 Comedy Central fans there). We could barely see the stage (a bad thing) or see Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock (a good thing), so we mostly wandered around in the very brief time we were there.
I did get a really good sandwich at the Eastern Market, though. Totally worth it.
Here’s what we saw:
(All photos taken by Nadia Chaudhury)
The scene at Citi Field.
Closest we could get to Arianna (on the right). The closest anyone can get to her, really.
On the bus. Props to the Huffington Post employee who was watching Friday Night Lights.
What does the Green Lantern have to rally against? That’s right: ATROCITUS!
This is a photo of “This is a Sign.”
People weren’t particularly kind to the Boston Tea Part—oh, never mind.
That could have actually been Michael Keaton for all we know.
View of the stage.
My favorite sign of the day.
Good thing she included that hyphen, ’cause otherwise, the irony…
Stewart and Colbert.
And you can’t have “party” without “trap.” Oh god, it’s a trap!
North American Moderates for Being Less Angry, the world’s third most famous NAMBLA
He’s the rallier, bitch!
What do these three—”Sharing Hats Spreads Lice,” “Unemployed, Thanks Obamacare” and “Military Familes for Peace”—signs have in common? Absolutely nothing.
Watching the rally from a tree.
On the back of the sign, it said, “Now get off my lawn!”
This man would later be attacked by shiny-loving birds.
AMERICA!