I'm flying around the country on the Jetblue All-You-Can-Jet pass, and I'm looking for people to meet up with in Chicago and New York in the next couple days.  I'm going to be in Chicago tomorrow (Thursday) and Friday, and then I'm flying to NY for two nights.  I am planning on going to one of the Cal Alumni Club of NY viewing parties, as well.

Any CGB fans up for hanging out anytime in these two cities?

I too am late to the photo post party, but better late than never.  Here are my pics.

The tailgate was a rousing success...

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You've got tickets! I've got tickets! They want tickets! TwistNHook wants a brain, and a heart, and courage!  Courage to do something with his soon-to-be brain and heart.

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"Where'd the ball go?!?"

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I was a little late to the party, but, according to GoldBlooded, I didn't miss much.

Approaching what is now "a construction site" from the south I saw the scaffolding and the protesters, who had scurried up into the upper reaches of their apparatus:

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Not much happened, but here's the photos of the morning.  All of them are posted on my photo gallery, DOTPicture

You can see the much-needed mulch in the foreground.

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It was blisteringly hot (for Berkeley).  Hippies hadn't showered.  You can guess the result.  As I approached the "base camp", the smell was intolerable (I'M NOT JOKING).  I haven't been up to this side of the stadium in a long time, so I was unaware of the devastation that had taken place.

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I'm heading up there in a little bit with my camera!

While you wait, here's what I think it would look like if TwistNHook were on Murphy Brown:

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Marshawn blah blah blah blah blah blah Bishop Desmond Tutu blah blah blah blah.

Blah blah blah Murphy blah blah blah George Stephanopoulos, Nate Longshore, and Dan Quayle in a bar blah blah blah?

Blah!

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Both trisweb and my girlfriend decided to accompany me again on today's excursion to Memorial Stadium.  As we got closer we saw the cheerleader guy that has already been posted about shouting "UC BP BEARS".  You will see him in photos.

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[Ed Note:  TheNick gives a solid run down with fotografias of what is going on at the Grove.  Bee Tee Dubya, "Ayr" was the "Authority Challenging Leader" from Saturday's Defensive Drills]

Continuing from my previous post ...

So after finding out that there might be something going on up at "hippie-land", my friends and I rushed up there to see what might be going on.

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First off, unfortunately I didn't have my camera, so I have no photos to upload.

After work today I drove by the oak grove to...well...see what I could see.  The north direction of Piedmont Ave / Gayley Rd was closed, so I swung around the east side of Memoral Stadium to approach from the other direction.

One interesting thing to note: There are large stacks of 2x4s piled up on the east rim of the stadium...waiting for construction to begin?

Heading south on Gayley Rd, at the Haas turnout, you first encounter ALL of the news outlets media vans with their satellite link ups fully extended (and the red KRON 4 Pontiac Vibes...couldn't afford a van I guess.)

Since I was there yesterday I was also able to notice a few more things.

1. The police barrier (the waist-high movable kind) has been extended.  It stretches from Bancroft Avenue all the way to the stop sign where the media vans are.  This is a much larger area than yesterday.  It also goes ALL the way to the median, encompassing the entire northbound lane of the road.  This pushes all of the hippies into the steep median, the southbound lane, or the opposite sidewalk.  It also prevents ANY supplies from getting anywhere near the hippies in the trees.

2. There are WAY more police than there were yesterday.  There are at least 1 or 2 officers per six feet along the barrier.

3. There are more anti-hippie people than yesterday.  I drove past at 6:30PM and there were lots of people there who did not seem to be supporters of anything...only there to watch.

4.  Though unconfirmed (as I was driving a car at the time), I didn't see any sign of the "God Pod" or "Dumpster Muffin".  It seems like the perch may have been taken down, though like I said, it might have been hidden from my view on the street as I tried to avoid (sadly) hitting any of the ground-hippies.

5.  The tall crane and the cherry picker are still there, though the basket was fully descended into the trees, so I couldn't see what it was doing.

Also, while standing on the street yesterday, I was talking to a friend who lives near Channing Circle and is a grad student, so he goes to school / works on campus daily.  He often stops by the International House Cafe in the morning and chats with the employees there, who told him (yes, it's a friend of a friend rumor) that the ground hippies come into the cafe very early in the morning and abuse the bathrooms, leaving them absolutely disgusting from basically showering in the sinks.  They sound like quality people!