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This Friday is the 44th anniversary of the day when 70,000  demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to protest the Vietnam war.

Later that day, 50,000 marched to the Pentagon, among them legendary counterculture vibesters Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg and The Fugs, who hadn’t simply come to protest the war. They had come to exorcise (exorgasm) the Pentagon, then levitate it using a magical incantation prepared by the Fugs’ Ed Sanders.

The levitation may not have happened, but some who were there apparently witnessed the building ‘shudder a bit’.

They were, of course, very high indeed.

Here’s rare 16mm footage of the day shot by Edward Folger who describes it as an “impressionistic immersion in the experience of the march.”

44th Anniversary Of The Exorcism Of The Pentagon (Dangerous Minds)

This just in:

ARLINGTON, VA—With officials describing his publication of sensitive U.S. State Department documents as “the last straw,” Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was asked to resign from his position as the Pentagon’s IT coordinator Monday. “We gave him his first warning after the whole Iraq and Afghanistan war diaries thing, and strike two was when he forwarded that video montage of Nicolas Cage yelling to the entire staff,” Defense Department human resources director Curtis Shannon said. “But we just can’t overlook this latest offense. Even if he’s the only one who knows where the spare USB cables are.” At press time, Assange had already been invited to interview for an IT position at the Central Intelligence Agency.

WHAT? Oh, right, it’s The Onion