15.1

it has been a long time again but there is a story i should tell.

so the week before halloween, i was at a coffee shop and found this flyer... it looked like a 10 year old drew it and i will try to quote it as much as possible it said:
pillow fight!
friday 10/29 (then the 9 was changed into an 8)
10pm sharp we mean it!
come in costume
bring your friends... to hit them
meet at the n/w corner of 13th and washington... and maraud from there

i imagined the most wonderful scenerio, where a fourth grader made this cute little flyer for his fourth grade friends, they were going to have a big time in the city, but one of them left a flyer on the bus and someone found it and made tons of copies and distributed them all over denver. in my scenario a bunch of crazy hipsters show up to battle the fourth grader and take back their streets. this was not however the case. but it was still one of my favorite nights ever.

i showed up at 10 sharp (i can follow directions like what.) and went over to the n/w corner. there were about 8 kids (by kids i mean 20something kickballers) dressed in black on the s/w corner and a couple of people on the n/w side. the media was represented and some cameras were ready to shoot, but in true hipster fashion most of them were late. no one was claiming the event, the press kept asking who planned it but no one would answer (i think it was this guy in a houndstooth jumpsuit, with a whistle, so hot.) anyway by about 10 after each side had reached critical mass, about 25 people per side of the street, and when the light changed everyone ran into the middle of 13th ave and started hitting. pure chaos. when the light turned green someone whistled, someone yelled "LIGHT" and everyone returned to their respective sides. this continued for 40min. so awesome. so tiring. i love everyone who showed up that night. it was such a pure event. just fun. no malice. someone even brought an already open pillow "for ambience" and was passing out handfuls of feathers. other people came with home made pillow club type things. so great. it ended with the cops third trip though, and a helicopter shining a light. someone called in a traffic disturbance, but the fun had been winding down anyway, people were so tired they were sitting in the street flailing pillows.
i don't think i can get across how great it was.

recommendation: throw your own city wide pillow fight.