brooklynvegan: Pillow fight in Union Square this Saturday

i clicked on the link from the pictures from last year...and im sorry but this animal cruelty thing is going too far. i agree with werner herzog: look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. it is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. they are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world." to think that while people are dying around the world of starvation and disease there is actually time and money devoted to allowing chickens and insects live better lives is appalling.

Posted by Anonymous | February 23, 2007 6:03 PM

Thanks for posting this :) I would like to point out a few things: Newmindspace is a vegan organization because its co-founder, Lori, is vegan herself, which means we do not use animal products or animal-tested products for events. We have developed an alternative to using feathers for the pillow fight, and so perhaps we should have posted "more fun with 'feathers'".

If you cut two yards of fun fur and put it in a pillowcase, the effect is so much better than real feathers!

Also, down pillows are supposed to be replaced every 12 months for hygienic reasons, so we figure that most of the pillows used in this event are long overdue. Perhaps they will buy synthetic this time around!

Posted by Kevin Bracken | February 23, 2007 8:51 PM

>Union Square? Didn't Arcade Fire play there? How is the sound?

haha that is priceless.

Posted by Anonymous | February 24, 2007 12:08 AM

i heard Amadeo from Blonde Redhead was the chairperson for the pillow fights this year. and Dave Sitek is Grand Marshal Fluff!

BORING VEGAN!

Posted by Anonymous | February 24, 2007 5:01 AM

It is with great regret that we must cancel the upcoming Pillow Fight shows. This was an extremely difficult decision to make, and was only decided on after doing everything we possibly could to make it work out.

This is Pillow Fight's first-ever tour, and while the band played some of the greatest shows of their lives, the attendant stress of organizing and traveling with a full-blown, 64-person orkestar took its toll. Having put all of his energy into each and every performance, Tempur Peter Pedic was briefly hospitalized for extreme exhaustion.

The band hopes to reschedule some of the shows in the future. Tempur, meanwhile, is attempting to channel the spirit of Jacques Brel using a cowbell and a gong.

According to Tempur's brother, Ortha:

Having downed a bottle of rancid French wine on the Ile-De-La-Cite (Perrin was threatening to jump in the Séine in honor of his Parisian amour) Tempur began to quote Flaubert from memory. Flaubert was not welcome that beautiful night in the city of lights. Violins and accordions were consecrated in piss and vinegar before Jim Morrison's grave. "Jim Morrison was a shaman!" Paul cried. A lone French orphan draped in purple rags wept for all our American sins. The next morning Tempur got lost in the Louvre. "Cubism is a farce,” he whispered to a overweight Dutch tourist. Under the English Channel, en route to London,Tempur noted the relative comfort of being "chunneled". In a dank Soho apothecary he sought a remedy for exhaustion and aversion to French bedbugs. The apothecary tried vainly to quote Prince Charles recent royal address to the greater public of Britian: "In light of having seen my wife unrobed and wigless in the disingenuous florescent light of a cheap hotel room, I do apologize to the nation and myself for unquestioning faith in her eternal beauty. She is old and ugly and so am I." That is funny Tempur dourly noted, but it does not help me at all not one bloody bit. “I must return to New Mexico to decompress.” Parliament was eerily quiet. One cannot argue with the plain truth.

Posted by Anonymous | February 24, 2007 5:06 AM

THEY'RE REAL!

http://www.myspace.com/pillowfightgb
OR
http://www.myspace.com/pillowfight2

I heard Beirut are playing at the pillow fight because they'll put people to sleep

Posted by Anonymous | February 24, 2007 5:12 AM

THIS JUST IN! PILLOW ROCKS OUT WITH JACKSON POLLIS AT RUFF CLUB!!! OMG!!!!!!!

Posted by Micah Welner | February 24, 2007 5:41 AM

follow link!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v511/micahwelner2/797a4f65.jpg"

Posted by Micah Welner | February 24, 2007 5:42 AM

You guys are such jerks! Negative nancies!
I love you guys...

Posted by Adrum | February 24, 2007 6:03 AM

that picture is totally amazing... this is going to be AWESOME!!!!!