The D.C. raid was AWESOME. I'm definitely going to Anonycon next weekend, and I cannot wait for Operation Reconnect. 4/12! I'm trying to recruit all my IRL friends into going, but they are lazy and think it's political. They don't understand the lulz, and thus they will not get delicious cake. (The cake, btw, was not a lie. And it was delicious.)

I handed out fliers most of the day. They kind of sucked and lots weren't folded properly -- I ttly appreciate the effort that Anonymous went to getting them made and all, but I'm also incredibly neurotic and the margins completely ruined the folding. So next time I'm going to have some printed properly and folded beforehand.

While we were doing setup, the first PI of the day showed up and started photographing us. He was SO INCREDIBLY obvious, and yet he kept trying to look like a tourist, just photographing the general area. I don't know why he bothered. We KNOW that he's a PI. We KNOW that his routine is an attempt at distraction so we'll feel safe in his incompetence, and maybe we won't notice that there are serious PIs watching us. Why don't they just stop the pretense and film us openly? WE DON'T CARE. Hell, we're filming ourselves anyway.

So yeah, we're setting up the sound equipment and the delicious cake, and he starts snapping pics, so I start filming him. There's only like 10 of us, max, at that point, because the rest of Anon are a couple blocks away getting ready for the march. Obvious PI starts taking photos of the corner across the street, where NO ANONS WERE, like we seriously believe he's interested in the Starbucks. I like coffee, but no one likes coffee that much. Then he wanders off, like tourists do -- only to come back from the opposite direction! I'm just like, WTF are you doing d00d? And then I ended up with this footage of Obvious PI being obvious. So here is a youtubes of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecu1CXA4S8o

There was a PLAN to go take a picture under Stephen Colbert's portrait at the National Portrait Gallery after the raid, but we failed at using Metro so a bunch of us got off at the wrong stop. We should have got off at Gallery Place, which is, hahahaha, right next to the GALLERY. WE R SMRT. Instead we got off at Smithsonian, which is over 9000 blocks from Gallery Place, and we had to walk there. But it was pretty cool, because we had a megaphone and an iPod with "LULZ: A Corruption of L.O.L." on it. So we played memey songs and scared the tourists and handed out fliers at a stoplight, and talked about mudkipz, and it was fun. It was also incredibly awesome to see a hundred Anons piling into the Metro station. We took up the whole damn platform and the operators had to yell at us to spread out because we were endangering lives by standing too close to the edge or something. (We weren't really, and if Metrorail would finish the fuck up with whatever "repairs" they've been doing for at least 100 years now, we wouldn't have had to stand there so long, but whatevs.)

OH AND. At Metro Center, we all switched to the Orange line, but the train that came was FULL of people (because of the repairs, there are fewer trains so they're all packed), and only half the Anons could get on and the rest of us were like WTF??? But THEN, a challenger appeared Metrorail operator came down and held the train for us, because the front car had space, so all the Anons zerg rushed the front car and we all got on! AWESOME.

And then our rogue group met the rest of Anon at the Portrait Gallery and we got pix and it was lulz.

THE END.