This is Larry Sinclair. He's the serial fabulist who claims he snorted coke and had sex with Barack Obama in a limo in 1999. The best overview about him that I've found is in (or linked from) this post. Apologies for the image quality: I don't have good resizing software at work.Anyway, he was wandering with his sign (the back of it features Donald Young (no not that one), who Sinclair claims was Obama's lover before being murdered last winter) around Rice Park, where MSNBC has their outdoor stage. He got a call, and told his interlocuter of his intention to walk up and around the State Capital. I was curious to see what the DVD was under his right arm, but I didn't get the opportunity.
I took a long walk at lunch today and snapped pictures of the security, media, decorations, some scattered protesters, and so on. Thanks to Troy for the loan of his camera. I'll get some more pics up here sometime, including, if I can, some I took with my phone en route to my car last night. Yesterday I was thinking I wouldn't take any time off to avoid the RNC this week, but walking across downtown through a 700-person protest surrounded by riot cops, bike cops and horse cops waiting for The Shit to Go Down changed my mind. It was a weird, tense, creepy vibe, and I don't want to be anywhere near downtown St. Paul tomorrow at quitting time.
Update: Coworker Troy nabbed one of the DVDs they were handing out in the park, the one Sinclair was toting. It's this.
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I think I'll be shooting a sketch downtown St. Paul between 6 and 8pm. I'm not sure it's a good idea.
regardless of your beliefs or affiliations, at least you reported what you saw and NOT what others directed you to say. Nice raw reporting. Good for you. Nobody owns you... yet.
Uh, thanks, dude. More on the way.
OMG!! You saw Mark Shields?!?! Lucky!!!!!!!!
Sadly, no. My coworker did, but I waded into the convention crowds and all I got was this lousy Larry Sinclair.
Although at the end of the day on Wednesday I did see Rachel Maddow at the MSNBC stage, doing a talking head segment and then getting her hair & makeup touched up.
#2 son was at the concert on Harriet Island on Monday. He said he thought about taking pictures of the security in downtown St. Paul, but given the weaponry being toted by the SPPD, he was afraid he would be brought down in a hail of bullets. A co-worker did take some pix, though, and if I can ever get them from his Blackberry onto my computer I will put them up on my blog. They are kinda scary.
I saw a totally different side of things, having days off and heading into St. Paul 8-10ish and spending the whole time in/near The Liffey, kittycorner from the Xcel center. It was fascinating. I saw John King and Dana Bash walking past me down 7th. I totally could have stolen a complete set of CNN security passes but wasn't a dick and got it back to the drunk dude I'd just met with his backpack. So so so much more. I'm working on writing something up. Kinda. I'm kinda ADD. Nice post, Fred! You made a lovely Martin Van Buren last night.
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