Driving [the DUMP TRUCK] around town WAS kind of a "guy thing," though - especially raising and lowering the massive dump bed in the back - which was an important therapy for a guy who has been parading around in fishnets and garters - A LOT! - recently!
I was not wearing my "eGray Hooker" outfit at the FReep in Coachella earlier today, but I DID bring the mask...
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FReepers and FRiends "welcome" Gray Davis to a UFW rally at Coachella (near Palm Springs)
Freep Davis near Palm Springs on SUNDAY! ^ | October 20, 2002 | RonDog, Tony in Hawaii, the "Chicken Man" - and Howie!
Posted on 10/20/2002 9:44 PM Pacific by RonDog
Once again, we have proven that eGray Davis can RUN, but the cannot HIDE from FReepers, and their FRiends and... ...the "Chicken Man!"
Over a DOZEN FReepers and our (soon-to-be-FReeper) FRiends joined with the ever-present "DEBATE Chicken" to FReep the elusive soon-to-be-EX-Governor of California as he tried to sneak into a United Farm Workers (UFW) rally at the Coachella Valley High School this afternoon...more
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FReeper Tony in Hawaii (center - NOT in a suit - in the Hawaiian shirt, with hat) and the "DEBATE Chicken"
are joined by MANY other as-yet-non-FReepers acting as if they really WERE FReepers!
RonDog joins the "Chicken Man" with an "eGray Hooker" MASK, but no fishnets and garters THIS time! Once again, we have proven that eGray Davis can RUN, but the cannot HIDE from FReepers, and their FRiends and... ...the "Chicken Man!"
Special thanks to L.A. FReeper
Tony in Hawaii who personally hand-carried the trademark costume from the
Northern California "Chicken Man" to the
Southern California "Chicken Man."
Faster than FedEx, when it "absolutely, positively NEEDS to get there overnight," you can COUNT on "TonyExpress!"
I overheard someone at the rally in Coachella watching in amazement as the Southern California "Chicken Man" was getting into this costume, and asked:
"How did THAT get here?
I thought that it was in Sacramento last night!"
It was.
And WE were.
But we BOTH made it to this FReep on time! :o)
"Hardcore" FReepers.
Rasing the bar for everyone else.
Leading by example. Perhaps OTHERS cannot (or will not) do what we have done, but they will certainly re-examine their commitment, and re-DEDICATE their future efforts - after they see OUR intensity.
(At least, that's the THEORY!)
Seriously, I was there because I thought that the "Chicken Man" and Tony in Hawaii would be facing THESE union thugs alone. From www.UFW.org:
Fortunately, I was wrong.
The union goons stayed INSIDE the event this time, and a LOT of non-FReepers arrived as reinforcements, so my presence as an enforcer was unnecessary.
My presence as a PHOTOGRAPHER/historian, however, as indispensible, as without my efforts, there would have been NO VISUAL RECORD of this WONDERFUL desert FReep!