I ain't got no tailpipe

Too much work, too many people, too little sleep. Aoun managed to not get himself assassinated, despite the apparent attempts by two or three gun toteing (toting?) madmen in the crowds. There's about equal measure Aoun and Hariri posters plastering everything at this point, although the Hariri ones are starting to show their age a bit. A lot of very excited people really liked talking a lot about how much this all was like the return of DeGaul to France. Not so much. Maybe I'm just cranky though.

High points:

1. The color of Aoun's old party is a day glow orange, the same color as the organizers of Outdoors festival were wearing. People got very confused. Never mix rock and exiled Lebanese strongmen.

2. When he first appeared, people went so batshit with the cheering and singing that the General's first words on Lebanese soil were, according to a few people, "Shut up!" Tee hee.



Geagea's status: Still, in fact, in prison.