We're all kind of down on the convention: the people aren't pretty, their clothes aren't that great, and no one is fucking in the streets. It's rather depressing, actually, and we can't wait for this giant political wind wagon to move along. One reader, however, notes that the RNC allows for some lovely people-watching:

I work on 34th and 10th, and normally the highlight of my morning walk down 34th street is watching a busful of chassidic rabbi-clones unload and disperse upon manhattan at 9th and 34th st. (Hey, I'm a Jew, I can self-hate. ) Not anymore... the crazies are out and they're really fucking funny. There's a 55 year old woman dressed like Paris Hilton carrying a sign "Money for cops not war"... and she's winking at all the cops. SAUCY. also enjoyed the father-son protesters, carrying Bush's picture with a sign "Won't Get Fooled Again." Couldn't tell if the son was a Democrat, a Republican, or just Embarrassed.

If it weren't for the convention, all I'd have is my rabbis. So Big Up to Dubya for that one...

Well, I suppose if you have to find a bright side to the convention, it'd be an old lady dressing like Paris Hilton.