I got tied up in stuff and didn't get to the Critical mass demonstration yesterday. I figured it would be no big deal, since these guys do this in San Francisco like every week. Pisses people off, but…

I was wrong;

100 Cyclists Are Arrested as Thousands Ride in Protest
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

Thousands of cyclists rode through the streets of Manhattan last night in an anti-Republican, pro-environment display of bike power that ended in more than 100 arrests by the police after the ride blocked some streets.

Despite tension over police warnings to obey traffic laws against blocking traffic and running red lights, the cyclists - numbering 5,000, the police say - did just that in a meandering course that started at Union Square and wound its way to the West Side, Central Park, Midtown and the East Village.

As of 11 p.m., Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, said that officers were still processing people who were detained, but that he expected more than 100 people to face charges, mainly for disorderly conduct.

The arrests, two days before the convention starts, seemed to herald a busy period for the police, who must patrol a stream of demonstrations large and small, several each day. The police on Thursday made 22-convention related arrests, more than three times the number during the entire Democratic National Convention in Boston.

The police apprehended riders in several spots, including more than 50 on Seventh Avenue at 36th Street near Madison Square Garden, where the Republican National Convention will be next week. Riders had chanted "No more Bush" as they passed, and participants in the ride, a monthly fixture for several years, said that many more people than usual took part, out of animosity toward the convention.

Probably be little posting today and I don't know if I'll see anything worth writing about, but I AM doing the events today I said I would.