Occupy Boston is an impressive bit of DIY placed smack-dab in the modernist sweep of the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Today saw lots of media there — as well as a Sunday, let’s-all-walk-in-the-town-plaza kind of crowd — both professional and amateur, one pair of whom were a pair of students from my alma mater conducting interviews with everyone in the camp for their … post-colonial studies class. They were kind enough to say they’ll be sharing their interviews with me, and you should see that — hopefully — soon.

The camp itself was much more interesting and — simultaneously — not as exciting as I thought it would be. A lot of it is just waiting — and that’s fine. And it’s a bit like a college club fare sign-up, too — everyone has their little booth, lots of people stop to chat — and the only difference is, they live there.

I recognized and introduced myself to Curt Nickish of WBUR, though I’m not quite sure he knew who I was. He heard that there might be a Winterization committee, but — after both of us checked — that didn’t turn out to be the case.

There was a brief incident where a probable homeless woman was yelling at someone, trying to get some money back, a march took off to show solidarity for people being released from prison (the official number of arrests was 141 — and as of this writing, they’ve all been released), and the rest I twittered into my blackberry like Hudson from Upstairs Downstairs trying out a telephone for the first time — type away and hope you get it right, even if it’s bits or gossip, i.e., that the girl from the media team who tweeted from jail hadn’t been released yet or walking by a sign that says, “I don’t need sex. Wall Street f**ks me every day.”

On the way home from the camp, I noticed three things: the young girl on the subway who lip-synced to that WIllow song (“What if Willow suddenly decided to change the words?” I asked myself “Like, now?”),  a young man dropping his iPod by the string of his headphones to the floor of the car and ‘balancing’ a corner of it, and a woman who looked so much like a young Julie Delpy that I nearly tripped over myself in surprise.

As of this posting, @jessbidgood is at #OccupyBoston.

  7:52 pm  |   October 11 2011   |  2 notes