Big day in the “occupy” movement, as the folks down there in NYC will see if they can muster up enough of a protest to “shut down” Wall Street (whatever that actually means). Mayor Bloomers has no doubt put a call into the NYPD to sharpen their plungers and give all non-compliant protesters the “full Sandusky.” You might say OWS is like the Titanic, about to slam full-speed into a Bloom Berg. Should be exciting, and I’m sure the majority of the 1% will be hanging around their big screen teevees watching Erin Burnett tsk-tsk the demonstrators, and giggle at every pepper spray-faced protester.

We, of course, don’t have the massive numbers up here (being just a barn in the woods and all), but, as far as I know, there’s no plan to send in the Carabinieri to evict them. But we’re just a bunch of hicks up here, and not suave like they are in Manhattan or hipster-types they way they are in Portland. Probably ‘cuz the Mayor’s a woman, and not a toughie capable of standing to those street thugs the way Bloomers is.

Happy 73 to Gordon Lightfoot. Martin Scorsese hits 69 today. And Vernon’s Gravatar turns 67 (which, for some reason, makes me feel old).