I love New York!

Just off the red-eye from San Francisco: Gotham awaits.

Braced for a full calendar of dissent against the Republican National Convention, New York appears to be under near martial-law. At least a dozen National Guard troops, armed to the teeth, greeted me at the sleepy Jamaica Station near the Airport. Already in the City, nearly 300 have been arrested for cycling, nudity, trespassers a assorted other charges - and the convention doesn't even start 'till Monday.

Due to some pesky conditions of my own recent tusstle with the courts, I plan to lay relatively low, though rumors have been spreading that the famed and elusive "Great Dragon Puppet" (GDP, seen here in 2001) may have been roused from his nearly 3 year slumber, ready to roar back into action.

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