I just got an email from my friend who works at Kink.com, reading:
When I got to work at the SF Armory this morning, [name redacted], who directs Behind Kink, asked me if Peter’s Assistant had found me yet. I said she had not, why was she looking for me?
“To tell you about the flags,” said the director.
“Yeah, yeah, I know, we’re waiting for our Earth Day flags, we should have them in a few days; in the meantime, it’s the California and Pride flags.”
“No, not that,” said the director. “The *flags*.”
Apparently, overnight the Pride and Golden Bear flags flying over the SF Armory had been removed and replaced by “Rockit” and “Famous 4 01 08” flags — attached. Nobody knows why, other than because it is April Fool’s Day and we are in San Francisco. But a mysterious ransom note was left indicating that our flags would be returned safe if we flew these flags until midnight. We have no knowledge of how the flags were swapped, or who did it. This is clearly a publicity stunt, but it is not one of ours.
Does anyone know, is “Rockit” a local tagger? I know that the Armory used to be a major skater hangout (called “3 up, 3 down” for the stairs)…
Update 4/02 1:00am: First, “Rockit and Famous” has responded with some pretty awesome demands in the comments of this post; second — Kink made this video and blog post about trying to find the perp, with no luck (though there’s an interesting handcuff escape technique involved).
Hah, I totally misread my own coworker’s comment about the skaters. durr.
@chriso – we don’t mind the skaters at all, please continue (in fact several of us skate inside the hallways)! I hope no one is hassling you about it, they need to stfu.
Just a note: There’s a followup – the flags have been returned.
They should have demanded one of those insertable health cameras like this one:
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9889812-1.html
we have a few simple demands for the powers that be:
one conestoga wagon
one meter maid pinata
a belt made of nipples
2 pair of 3d glasses
5 gallons of water from fiji [not fiji brand water]
more girl on girl action
one peppermint colored hovercraft
2 fast track passes
1 50lb bag of 100 dollar bills
one marching band to perform at my grandmothers funeral
one years worth of trapeze lessons
one complete collection of jane fonda workout videos [vhs]
all mineral rights to ted turners property
one nubile concubine who loves to cuddle
one everlasting gobbstopper
one baby raven
“Rockit” may be all sex and robots.
But the most important Herbie Hancock video is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6QsusDS_8A
Totally putting that on my myspace under Heroes.
Hey maybe it’s for the Ricki Rockett (fugitive alleged rapist) Liberation Front?
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20186937,00.html
Mmmmm, robots….
okay, Courtney just reminded me that the Herbie Hancock “Rockit” video was all sex and robots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7dAxvj2mlU
idea: if they’re out front right now, go outside with a ghetto blaster, play that Herbie Hancock song, and see who busts out doing The Robot! then you can be all like, “give us back our flags, beeyootch!” that’s what I would do.
It’s still a major skater hangout. We dodge them all the time on our way in and out of the building!