Pacificapocalypse

Sure we do!
Caught the first two episodes of The Cleaner last night on demand. Looks brilliant, great cast, smart dialogue without being too clever. Benjamin Bratt is easy on the eyes as is Grace Park.
The premise is a little shaky:

“The Cleaner,” inspired by the true story of a real-life “extreme interventionist,” stars Benjamin Bratt as William “The Cleaner” Banks, who, after hitting rock-bottom from his own addictions after the birth of his daughter, strikes a tentative deal with God. Now along with his unconventional team, he helps people get away from their addictions by any means necessary.
So kidnapping people off the street is now considered intervention? Isn’t anyone going to notice? Future plot points? Probably. Anyway it looks good and dammit ( SPOILER ALERT!) I shed a tear during the first episode when Micky OD.
That really sucked.

Ok, look, I’m all for activism, social change, inclusiveness and public demonstration, but this is just plain stupid.

From today’s issue of the San Francisco Bay Guardian in the Alerts section:

Anti-movement
What better way to show your opposition to the use and proliferation of nuclear weapons than to participate in a freeze action. Come to the trolley turnaround to commemorate America’s 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to protest US aggression toward Iran. All you have to do is stand frozen for five minutes and, when organizers blow the whistle, chant “no attack on Iran!”
5 p.m., free
Powell and Market, SF

Freeze and chant? It’s like the joke when the robber stick the gun in the victims face and says “Don’t move! Put your hands up!” “So wait, do I not move or do I put my hands up?” And I *despise* flash mobs and their associated nonsense; they’re annoying and no longer the unique occurrence they were once upon a time. That time was a Tuesday afternoon, for about 20 minutes, in late 2002. Just ask this girl if they’re still a good idea.
These guys need to take a clue from Improv Everywhere.
Now they know how to do a public scene.