The Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle Civic Duty Award goes to...

[jack_babalon]

From known 'Cultural Guerrilla' featherynscale via a one omegamorningsta

Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock

'Cultural guerrillas' cleared of lawbreaking over secret workshop in Pantheon
It is one of Paris's most celebrated monuments, a neoclassical masterpiece that has cast its shadow across the city for more than two centuries.
But it is unlikely that the Panthéon, or any other building in France's capital, will have played host to a more bizarre sequence of events than those revealed in a court last week.

Four members of an underground "cultural guerrilla" movement known as the Untergunther, whose purpose is to restore France's cultural heritage, were cleared on Friday of breaking into the 18th-century monument in a plot worthy of Dan Brown or Umberto Eco.


"Remember kid... we're all in this together!"
~Harry Tuttle, Anarcho-Ninja-Maintenace Man
Brazil (1985)

Comments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Thank you for supplying the clever commentary -- I was too stunned by the brilliance of the thing to say anything about it. :)

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Well thank Terry Gilliam if anyone. I don't stun easily (I + 2 on brillance saves) but it has given me a kind of 'resistance-is-NOT-fu-tile' smile that I haven't had in awhile ... so thank you for hipping me to this story (sorry... I know I sound like one of the two polite chipmunks... but what can you do?)

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!
I like these guys better than those glum back-biting Situationists.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Would you say they were "No win Situationists"?

*drum roll*

I kid, I kid... the Society of the Spectacle:)

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

[cue muted trumpet]

*WAH, wah... wubbawubbawubba*

[catwalk.livejournal.com]

great story... ya gotta love progressive subversives

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

There are few things in this world as wonderful as genuine Guerrilla Ar-teasts willing to walk the walk.

[entropic-om.livejournal.com]

A pipe of a different color, indeed.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

True Dat.

Harry Tuttle has been one of my many fictional role models, especially here on Cube Farm.